13 Sep
2022
13 Sep
'22
5:33 p.m.
On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 5:53 AM Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
At the Omni delegates meeting earlier this evening, we
noticed that we
haven't seen anyone Sudo Mesh show up for quite a while now. Is the project
still alive in some sense, or has it gone completely dormant now?
Hi! I don't know what mesh(a)sudoroom.org is so it took me a while to see
this email. We have our own domains sudomesh.org and info(a)sudomesh.org is
the email we use for sudo mesh. Can you let me know where you saw the
mesh(a)sudoroom.org address so we can ensure it's changed?
We are not dormant! We have not been having recurring stand-alone meetings
(only a presence at most sudo room hacknights) but we are very much active.
We held an antenna theory and construction workshop in July at DreamSpace
Academy in Sri Lanka and set up some infrastructure upgrades to their
hackerspace (including a video portal that should be soon linked to sudo
room), in August we helped out a couple of South American mesh projects
with equipment donations and lent equipment for the mesh at the dWeb
summit. This month we received a $5k grant from The Internet Society for
solar powered wifi hotspots for unhoused communities in the Bay Area.
Unfortunately our active core members have spent a lot of the summer months
traveling which hasn't been conducive to having a delegate show up.
At a minimum, we would need someone who is willing to
be listed on
official Omni documents as the designated "director" on behalf of Sudo Mesh
on Omni's board. Alternatively, we could remove Sudo Mesh as one of the
official designating organisations listed in Omni's bylaws. That kind of
official stuff will wind up getting more important as we get closer to
having to sign official documents relating to refinancing our loan etc.
I will ask our members and find out who is willing and able to attend
delegates meeting and sign documents and who will actually be in-country in
the coming months. Unfortunately I will be traveling again soon and won't
be consistently back until around the end of October so I'm not a good
candidate.
Is there anything we can do to help revitalize Sudo
Mesh as well as Sudo
Room itself?
I am not much involved in the running of sudo room these days. We could
definitely have CCL cross-announce sudo room events but honestly I'd talk
to Jake or Andrew.
I expect that sudo mesh will re-start recurring open stand-alone meetings
at the beginning of November but please do direct any interested folks to
contact us or show up at sudo room hacknights in the meantime. There is
almost always at least one sudo mesh member present.
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marc/juul