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.