*Announcements:
*
- The naming poll ends today! Please write in your choices for the name
of the mesh before the meeting tonight.
- Please reply to this thread if you'd be interested in having community
outreach meetings concurrently with hack night or on a separate night
(Monday evenings perhaps?)
*Events:
*
- Tonight, 7:30-10pm: Hack Nights every Thursday starting at
*7:30pm*(note time change)
- Thursday, August 29, 7:30-10pm: GENERAL MEETING for strategy, planning
& newbie orientation every Last Thursday.
- Saturday, August 31 at sudo room: *PARTY LIKE IT'S 1984!:* Cryptoparty
(12-3pm) + Lightning Talks (3-6pm) including Moxie Marlinspike (Open
Whisper Systems), Danny O'Brien (EFF), Bill Budington (EFF), Craig Rouskey
(Citizen Science / Science as activism) and presentation on the Oakland
mesh! Followed by drinks + dance party.
*Wiki:*
- Juul created Mesh/Legal <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Legal> for
legal logistics surrounding exit nodes & 501c3
- Maxb added status updates on the various
Mesh/Firmware<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware>components
- Maxb created Mesh/Firmware/Web Admin
Development<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware/Web_Admin_Developmen…
- Maxb added information on installing OpenWRT on a
VM<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/OpenWRT#OpenWRT_on_a_VM>
- Tunabananas created
Mesh/MeshApps<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/MeshApps>for local
services
- Tunabananas updated the main page <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh> for
changed meeting schedule and final update on crowdfunding campaign
- Juul and Mitar added to
Mesh/Firmware/Generating<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware/Generat…
- Juul created
Mesh/Challenges<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Challenges>to highlight
some of the challenges mesh networks face generally, Mitar and
sjackisch added to it.
- Juul created Mesh/Network Topology
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Network_topology>
- Juul added extensively to Mesh/Firmware/Splash
Page<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware/Splash_page>
- Chrisjx organized our hardware and updated the
Mesh/Inventory<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Inventory>paget;page!
- Tunabananas created
Mesh/Walkthrough<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/WalkThrough>to
condense documentation for flashing our Ubiquiti gear with OpenWRT and
installing batman-adv.
- Juul created Mesh/Decisions
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Decisions>to discuss some of the
decisions mesh networks need to make as they begin
organizing
*Recommended Reading:*
- No Cell Service? Need 911? Mesh Networking May
Help<http://www.governing.com/blogs/view/gov-mesh-networking-service-dur…
- 2013 Community Wireless Summit keynote speakers
announced<http://2013.wirelesssummit.org/content/announcing-keynote-spea…
- Reply to this thread if you have come across good articles / sources
on mesh!
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Jenny
http://jennyryan.net
http://thepyre.org
http://thevirtualcampfire.org
http://technomadic.tumblr.com
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"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories."
-Laurie Anderson
"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
-Hannah Arendt
"To define is to kill. To suggest is to create."
-Stéphane Mallarmé
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