Re: [Mesh] Introduction & community outreach ideas

Rabbit! You are awesome! Great idea about involving NoBAWC and Berkeley Cohousing, especially. We've gotta connect all the dots to building a resilient commons, and those guys have about 30 years more experience on most of us! We've had two folks from Berkeley student co-ops coming by the meetings pretty regularly lately. They also hang out in our IRC channel, #510pen on Freenode, if you want to come hang with us there :) Love this description: "I'm personally excited about the mesh project because it's a way for us to increase our community power and independence by relying less on infrastructure owned by corporations we don't trust. And like Occupy and Couchsurfing, a big successful mesh project would help knit the city's human relationships together with trust and friendliness, and lots of positive things follow from that." Can I quote you on this? Looking forward to deciding on a name so we can do a website revamp, especially a page of peoples' motivations for building a decentralized internet. Also, it sounds like Jacob is moving forward in organizing a meeting on Wednesday night specifically around community outreach and policy initiatives. I think we're at a point where we need to restructure our meetings to get more done efficiently. Marc and Max suggested having one 'general meeting' a month, the other 3 Thursdays being hack nights [anyone welcome if they're willing to just dive right in to working], and bi-weekly community outreach meetups on Wednesdays also sounds like a good idea.. See attached photo of Rabbit's awesome donation to the mesh! (Hint: my nick is 'tunabananas'