Re: [Mesh] Sudo Mesh name-dropped as resistance technology.

Hello All, I was reading "How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy" by local Oakland author Jenny Odell, an excellent book on how to reclaim your mind from the commercialization of tech. In Chapter 6 "Restoring the Grounds for Thought" sudo mesh is mentioned as an example of technology that can make the concept of "place" and "context" important again. It's a tad academic, but I thought you might like to read your fame: When I asked my friend Taeyoon Choi, cofounder of the School of Poetic Computation in New York, about a network that would allow you to “listen to a place,” he suggested local mesh networks like Oakland’s PeoplesOpen.net. The nonprofit Sudo Room, whose volunteers develop the mesh network, describe it as a people-powered, “free-as-in-freedom alternative” to centralized, corporate servers: “Imagine if the wifi router in your home connected to the wifi routers in your neighbours’ homes and they again connected to their neighbours to form a huge free wireless network spanning the city! That’s exactly what a mesh network is, or at least what it can be.”18 The volunteers add that mesh networks would be particularly resilient in the event of a natural disaster or state censorship. Alongside instructions for “building your own internet,” they provide a directory of other community networks, like NYC Mesh, Philly Mesh, and Kansas City Freedom Network. And PeoplesOpen.net’s mission statement seems to echo that of Community Memory: [W]e believe in the creation of local internets and locally-relevant applications, the cultivation of community-owned telecommunications networks in the interest of autonomy and grassroots community collaboration, and ultimately, in owning the means of production by which we communicate.19 Make a great day, Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/ _______________________________________________ mesh mailing list mesh(a)lists.sudoroom.org https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/mesh