Thanks for the update! So much awesomeness going on Jenny! I also wanted to introduce myself to the list seeing as how I've been to a couple of #mesh meetings by now but only met a handful of you...I'm an Oakland-based filmmaker (I live down the block) obsessed with the intersection of society, culture, and technology. I've been so warmly received by everyone whom I've met and want to thank you all for that. And I want to see the mesh succeed!

It's timely to let everyone know I have begun making a (feature-length) documentary about the mesh project, and other mesh projects around the world. This will be a topical deep-dive into this specific topic, separate but alongside Noemie's Sudo Room project at large. So, I am looking to document all aspects of the process! Obviously meetings are a great place to start, but I would like to capture stuff going on out in the 'real' world in addition - dumpster diving expeditions for equipment, site visits, antenna/node installation days (west oak?), tests, everything! I would ask that anyone who's doing anything outside of mesh meetings give me a heads up so I can (if you're willing) come along and document the happenings. I wanna catch all this as it's happening so nothing gets missed :)

Although I can't make tonight's meeting, I'll be hard at work this weekend ramping up to begin production full-scale. I hope to meet and interview some or most of you at some point - so please feel free to reach out if you've got some spare time or won't be able to see me at the next mesh meeting (where I'll do most of the interviews).

Cheers!

-Jesse

805.234.1988

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Jenny Ryan <tunabananas@gmail.com> wrote:

It'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 presentations

Wiki

* Tunabananas created Mesh/Flyers and uploaded Paige's flyers

* ChrisJ updated Mesh/Monitoring and created Mesh/Icinga

* Matt added instructions to Mesh/Firmware/Flash

* Jul added to Mesh/Hardware Support

* GMeader created the page Mesh/San Francisco and added to Mesh/Marketing

* 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/MeshApps

To 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/ToDos
** Please update the list above with specific tasks!

Help Out!
* 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

Recommended Reading

* 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-net

* 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

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-Laurie Anderson

"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
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