* Oakland's Sudo Mesh looks to counter censorship and the digital divide with a mesh network: http://techpresident.com/news/25200/oakland-sudo-mesh-counter-censorship-digital-divide-mesh-netRecommended ReadingIt's been a crazily active summer - apologies for the lack of updates! Sudo Room (and by extension, Sudo Mesh) has relocated to the Omni Oakland Commons at 4799 Shattuck. We're excited to be a founding member collective among an array of groups that have moved in together to create a radical commons in Oakland.If you've been wanting to plug in and help out, or simply reconnect to the group, tonight is a great night to come by and check out the new space!Announcements* We'll be having our monthly general meeting today, starting at 7:30pm at Sudo Room. Please add to the agenda! - https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudomesh* Juul, MaxB and Alex have been working hard on crushing bugs and levelling up our mesh firmware. We've deployed a test network within the Omni building and they are successfully meshing as I type! \o/
* We've procured a 75 foot antenna tower that will be mounted in West Oakland to become a core relay spot for routing traffic on the mesh.* Noemie has put together a fantastic sudomesh / people's open net video and is currently soliciting feedback. Check it out @ http://youtu.be/qva1SQSBDyE* Paige made a rad flyer design and two versions of the flyer for a) general ways to participate in the project and b) promoting upcoming info sessions. Check them out here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Flyers
* Stickers!! The round 'Mesh the Planet' and rectangular PeoplesOpen.Net stickers have been printed and can be procured at sudoroom (atio the white shelves next to the staircase) and/or one of our Tuesday/Thursday meetups!
Code - so much code this summer!!* Juul created ipk-builder: https://github.com/sudomesh/ipk-builder* MaxB, Ron, and Juul have been updating the service browser: https://github.com/sudomesh/service-browser* Juul, MaxB, and Alex reengineered the node-configurator: https://github.com/sudomesh/makenode* MaxB, Alex and Matt fixed the exitnode* MaxB created sudowrt-firmware-images for temporary storage of firmware builds* Matt added a patch to sudowrt-firmware* Alex and MaxB have been fixing our fork of tunneldigger* MaxB fixed sudowrt-packages* Juul updated ubi-flasher* Juul added fixes to meshnode-database* Matt created svg-animations for mesh presentationsWiki* Tunabananas created Mesh/Flyers and uploaded Paige's flyers* Matt added instructions to Mesh/Firmware/Flash* Jul added to Mesh/Hardware Support* MaxB added sticker images to Mesh/Stickers* ChrisJ created Mesh/Sensu* Tunabananas added recent research on broadband access in Oakland to Mesh/Oakland* Tunabananas added some months worth of meeting minutes to Mesh/Minutes* Jwentwistle added a bunch of documentation to Mesh/BATMAN-adv* Jwentwistle and Tunabananas cleaned up the main Mesh page!* Jwentwistle moved Mesh/MeshApps primarily to Mesh/Distributed Services* Jwentwistle created and added slides to Mesh/Presentation* Jwentwistle created Mesh/User Guide* Jwentwistle created Mesh/Technical Overview* MaxB checked some stuff out* Matt added some diagrams to Mesh/Diagrams* Jwentwistle added bandwidth shaping details to Mesh/Firmware* MaxB added some ideas for our box of crappy routers to Mesh/Inventory* Tunabananas wrote a new post on Mesh/Blog* Aep added to Mesh/MeshAppsTo Dos
* Test current mesh setup in the Omni building* Create online ordering system and shipping label automation* Create 'How to Care for Your Node' guides* Outreach to spaces that can host info sessions and presentations* Work on local apps and services that will run on the mesh!* More at: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/ToDosHelp Out!
** Please update the list above with specific tasks!
* Come by our weekly hacknights, Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 7:30pm at Sudo Room <https://sudoroom.org>
* Contribute research, ideas, designs to our wiki: https://sudomesh.org
* Contribute to the code: https://github.com/sudomesh
* Donate hardware and equipment! <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Wishlist>
* Give a small weekly donation: https://www.gittip.com/sudomesh* It's Time for Open, Shared Home Wi-Fi (Re/Code): http://recode.net/2014/08/05/its-time-for-shared-open-home-wi-fi/See y'all tonight!Jenny
http://jennyryan.net
http://thepyre.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
~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
_______________________________________________
mesh mailing list
mesh@lists.sudoroom.org
https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/mesh