[Mesh] Meeting Minutes 2/7

Thanks to all who came by tonight! Cross-posted to the sudo room wiki here: http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh ==Attendees== Alcides, Marc, Jenny, JC, David, George, Miguel ==Notes== *Ham Radio Licenses allow for broadcasting up to 2.4Ghz **Free class to procure ham radio license in one day at Noisebridge March 17th **Has to be amateur / not paid-for services **Can't be encrypted (What does that mean for HTTPS?) **Definitely an area that needs further research! *Hook into Downtown Berkeley WiFi? *Hackerspace Darknets (accessible to other hackerspaces) *CJDNS *Bounce a signal off the moon / other satellites *Direct connect several nodes (Andrew's place/Vagabond Ballroom; Mark B's House, Adeline House, Sudo Room, Media Alliance, node in East Oakland) *Need for directional antennas **Should we make antennas? **Lasers? ***10 mbps (RONJA) ***Not good in the rain *Location triangulation *Suggestion: East Bay Communications Resilience Group *Software-defined radios *Low-bandwidth radio receivers *Boats in the bay could receive long-distance comms, for instance *OpenBTS *MonkeyBrains as backhaul for a mesh network *Burning Man Community / San Francisco dark fiber opps *JC - mobile ad hoc mesh network **CB Radio backpacks for berkeley protest peacekeepers as inspiration for mobile ad hoc networks **Starts with communication (voice, over data) *Solar power system for mesh box and mobile phone *Pay phones as mesh nodes for anonymous hot-spotting *Peet's running on a mesh backbone? *[http://openmesh.com Open Mesh] - uses batman-adv, NG firmware *ALIX *AIS - boat radio communications *Emergency Broadcast Band - airwaves set aside *Cognitive Radio to detect currently broadcasting signals *[http://www.accrc.org/ Alameda Country Computer Resource Center] ==Projects== *Mobile ad hoc networks **4GB of data to sync across the nodes **Using git to update the nodes **People moving around feeding the network *[http://thepyre.org/wiki/Mycelia Mycelia] - geospatial mapping via decentralized databases for inventory management, project and skill matching (talk to marc juul and jenny if you want to work on this project!) *[http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Router_Reuse Router Reuse Program] - Proposed sudo room project :D *DC415 - DefCon mesh in SF ==Action Items== *Inventory / Donations of hardware **Open call to hackerspaces for surplus routers / wifi devices **ANTAC wifi cable modems *Base repository of information **See for instance The Pyre: http://thepyre.org/wiki (talk to jenny) *Get a mesh node running at sudo room! *Field survey trip to visit existing nodes *Box in a Bag for activists