[Mesh] Hacknight Notes 4/17

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Reposted for posterity at: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/17_April_2014 http://pad.sudomesh.org April 17th Hacknight =Attendees= * Marc, Chris, Max, Mario, William, Noemie, Matt, Deekoo ("I contribute paranoia"), Alex, Philip, me too (Daniel) =Updates= * Max got the captive portal working on iOS 7! * Marc wrote an article in Slingshot! Check it out! * Matt working on a technical diagram to describe what your router does * BART contract out to revamp their connectivity * Marc announces our second mesh service: the cheese machine =Announcements= * Activist training next Thursday - can we bring some cryptoparty? ** https://pad.riseup.net/p/EarthDaytoMayDayNVDA * Cryptoparty this Sunday 2-5pm, special edition focused on journalists. * Noemie will be filming short (15min) interviews with folks on Sunday =Discussion= * Pre-deployment plans - ** logging, ** hardware watchdog to picostation, ** cases and antennas for the Sparkys, ** finding tall locations =ToDos= * update active nodes * Add to Wishlist: ** Antenna towers ** Power supplies (be inventive! eg; power supply to a Roomba) * pick up VOIP adapters =Misc= * "My so-called VPS" * Protip: Most places throw their magazines out on Tuesdays * "I want spikes on my hardhat" * "Build server down!" * interesting IoT server on Raspi: http://thethingbox.io - Raspbian, Mosquitto, Node.js, Node-Red * fdroid, nodecipher =Gratuitous Link Dump= * Knight News Challenge - feedback period ends tomorrow: https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/submissions/toward-a-network-c… * BART procurements: http://www.bart.gov/about/business/procurement/contractsout * BATMAN-advanced installation http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/BATMAN-Advanced_Setup * Don't Copy That Floppy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI * LibreMap: https://github.com/libremap * Topology diagram (with Virtual Public Network aka VPuN) https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Diagrams#Network_Topology_Diagram ** explanation of VPuN cites gnunet https://gnunet.org/gnunet-vpn and http://www.isaca.org/Journal/Past-Issues/2001/Volume-3/Pages/Virtual-Privat… * Open Source tools - http://openhatch.org/ - -- Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://sudomesh.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://technomadic.tumblr.com `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." - -Laurie Anderson "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." - -Stéphane Mallarmé ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`