Hi everybody,
I'm new to town and I'm interested in helping with the project. I'll be at
the meeting on Thursday. I wanted to focus more on the hardware aspect side
of things. I have a background as an EE and I haven't had much field
experience with radios and networking, but it's one of the three projects I
will be focusing on in Oakland. One detail that I can't figure out if it's
built into the cjdn nodes bridge to the internet. I'm guessing yes, but I
can't find anything that specifies it.
Maybe somebody will be willing to catch me up with some of the local
project details.
See you tomorrow,
Jeremy
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 Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 08:17:07 -0500
 From: charles(a)thefnf.org
 To: Mitar <mitar(a)tnode.com>,Jenny Ryan <tunabananas(a)gmail.com>
 Cc: Marc Juul <juul(a)labitat.dk>dk>, mesh(a)lists.sudoroom.org
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 Mitar <mitar(a)tnode.com> wrote:
 Hi!
So, maybe you should talk with people behind the 
freifunk.net site and
see what is their vision is? Probably they are just around the corner.
:-)
As I said, there could be two domain names pointing to the same page,
meshthepla.net having different theme and different (English) locale.
Mitar
  Mitar and all,
 The idea with 
meshthepla.net is to create a campaign site that is 
agnostic
  toward any particular network. 
Freifunk.net by
and large points to 
and
  promotes itself, which is really all the argument
needed.
 Also, I'm intending to use the site for documenting the workshop I'll 
be
  leading at the wireless summit, one output of
which is a global 
community
  asset map of free networks and a communications
framework for 
continuing
  the conversation. :)
 I do like the Freifunk site a lot and am hoping I can grok more of it 
after
  spending a few weeks immersed in German!
 On Sep 25, 2013 6:53 AM, "Mitar" <mitar(a)tnode.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> As far as global directories, I don't see any reason for freifunk 
to be
 > the
>> only front end for all this open data - in part because "freifunk"
is a
 >> much better name for german speakers than
for everyone else.  As 
long as
 > we
>> are dealing with open data and open source, it shouldn't be a 
problem
for
 >> motivated folks to throw up their own
translated/localized version,
>> experiment with visualizations, etc. if they want to
>
> Yes. So providing your own interface to the same API is probably
> reasonable. But I got a feeling that Marc was arguing for doing some
> other API and another directory?
>
> Of course another idea could be that we just translate 
freifunk.net
> webpage, point 
meshtheplanet.net to that site and make so that when 
it
 > is visited through 
meshtheplanet.net, an
English version (with 
whatever
 > logo) appears. And if we want some additional
feature, we extend 
current
 > website with it and both 
freifunk.net and
meshtheplanet.net then 
have
 > it. This is open source as well. Don't
fork if not necessary. Have 
you
 > tried to contribute to freifunk.net? Was it
proven to be impossible?
> That they didn't accept your contributions with your translations 
and
 > visualizations? If not, why fork?
>
>
> Mitar
>
>>
>> --mark B.
>> On Sep 24, 2013 6:47 PM, "Mitar" <mitar(a)tnode.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>>> That site is completely freifunk-specific.
>>>
>>> Because it is starting from there.
>>>
>>> I am probably biased though. :-) But in the past they had already 
a
nice
 >>> planet (blog aggregator) and I know
few networks (including wlan
>>> slovenija) who were part of that. So I don't have a feeling it is
just
 >>> freifunk specific.
>>>
>>>> Site appears to be in german only.
>>>
>>> Currently. This is called international diversity. :-)
>>>
>>>> No easy way to add your own community to the mesh (need to use an
>>>> api).
>>>
>>> Pull request against:
>>>
>>>
>>>
> 
  
>>>
>>> What is easier?
>>>
>>>> No info on the different meshes except for a link.
>>>
>>> Have you checked the schema?
>>>
>>> 
https://github.com/freifunk/api.freifunk.net/blob/master/specs/0.1.json
 >>>
>>> And of course, schema can be worked on by communities.
>>>
>>>> This does not even seem to be an attempt at a global community
site.
 >>>
>>> Interesting, I got a feeling that they are trying to be. They were
eager
 >>> to translate into English the GitHub
README, once I told them that 
this
 >>> would help others. :-)
>>>
>>>> Yeah, but maybe forking 
hackerspaces.org would be better.
>>>
>>> As you want. I am just saying that some people are already working 
on
 >>> that and that it is really hard to
maintain such lists. I know 
because I
 >>> tried one:
>>>
>>> 
http://interop.wlan-si.net/
>>>
>>> There is then simply:
>>>
>>>
> 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_community_networks_by_region
 
>>>
>>> Which was viewed by many as good enough.
>>>
>>> And now freifunk is trying to improve on situation. So making a 
site
 >>> which uses the same API and same
directory is probably reasonable. 
But
 >>> doing one new directory is probably
not. Because the question is 
who
>>>> will maintain that directory.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Mitar
>>>>
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> 
 
 I think Mitar is really on to something here and i tend to agree with his
 position. I think we have a great list of his points/position.
 Guifi.us has a very specific goal: take the 
wndw.net site and turn it
 into a simple process: plan, fund, procure, build. It will scrape from
 existing map sources for its map. The less to scrape from the better!
 Jenny/all,
 Do you have a spec/goals/motivations etc page up somewhere for
 meshthepla.net?
 --
 Charles Wyble
 (818) 280-7059 charles(a)knownelement.com
 CTO Free Network Foundation (
thefnf.org)
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 Message: 2
 Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 08:20:36 -0500
 From: charles(a)thefnf.org
 To: Jenny Ryan <tunabananas(a)gmail.com>
 Cc: Marc Juul <juul(a)labitat.dk>dk>, mesh(a)lists.sudoroom.org
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 Jenny Ryan <tunabananas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
 Charles,
Can you link to a 
guifi.net page that demonstrates this global map?
Something in English, preferably. I'd love to know more about this
project
and its roadmap.
On Sep 25, 2013 3:55 AM, <charles(a)thefnf.org> wrote:
  Marc Juul <juul(a)labitat.dk> wrote:
 >On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Marc Juul <juul(a)labitat.dk> wrote:
 >
 >> I've set up a $6 a month VPS (
vpscheap.net) and configured mail 
for
  >our
 >> domains 
peoplesopen.net and 
sudoroom.org (and all variations).
 >>
 >
 >I must have been pretty tired when I wrote this. I of course meant
 >sudomesh.org
 >
 >I'm also not sure that this has been officially announced on the
 >mailing
 >list, but our final naming decisions are in.
 >
 >The network is:
 >
 >  Peoples Open Network
 >  
peoplesopen.net
 >
 >The SSID of the wifi/mesh is:
 >
 >  
peoplesopen.net
 >
 >The organization is:
 >
 >  
sudomesh.org
 >
 >and then we are thinking about using 
meshtheplanet.net (and
 >meshthepla.net)
 >as a campaign to get more people involved or a map of all community
 >networks (like 
hackerspaces.org)
 >
 >We decided to change the decision from last week and not use the 
name
  >peopleswifi.org as the SSID so as not to have
two different names 
for
> >the
> >network.
>
> Would you be willing to work with the Free Network Foundation and our
> guifi.us effort for the mapping?
>
> Also look at 
guifi.net (they are working closely with global mesh
> networks to map everything).
> --
> Charles Wyble
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> CTO Free Network Foundation (
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 I would browse the site and also talk to Roje/Pau at the summit. They know
 the site far better than I.
 Guifi.us is a 2.0 version of that site/concept and also more US centric.
 --
 Charles Wyble
 (818) 280-7059 charles(a)knownelement.com
 CTO Free Network Foundation (
thefnf.org)
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 Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 11:42:40 -0400
 From: The Doctor <drwho(a)virtadpt.net>
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 On 09/24/2013 06:33 PM, Marc Juul wrote:
  I would also guess that bluetooth still consumes
significantly
 less power than wifi even if wifi is set to lower power, but I
 don't actually know. 
 http://www.diffen.com/difference/Bluetooth_vs_Wifi
 tl;dr - Bluetooth uses less power, but has significantly less range.
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 Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 08:43:07 -0700
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 Guifi.us looks great and is something I would support us at least trying.
 On a general note I'm highly skeptical of any database built on top of
 JSON. My hope is for an API to be built for this dataset such that
 individual mesh networks are not forced into using this one size fits
 all biz.
 -- rhodey
 On 09/25/2013 06:20 AM, charles(a)thefnf.org wrote:
  Jenny Ryan <tunabananas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
  Charles,
 Can you link to a 
guifi.net page that demonstrates this global map?
 Something in English, preferably. I'd love to know more about this
 project
 and its roadmap.
 On Sep 25, 2013 3:55 AM, <charles(a)thefnf.org> wrote:
  Marc Juul <juul(a)labitat.dk> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Marc Juul <juul(a)labitat.dk> wrote:
>
>> I've set up a $6 a month VPS (
vpscheap.net) and configured mail 
 for
 > our
>> domains 
peoplesopen.net and 
sudoroom.org (and all variations).
>>
>
> I must have been pretty tired when I wrote this. I of course meant
> 
sudomesh.org
>
> I'm also not sure that this has been officially announced on the
> mailing
> list, but our final naming decisions are in.
>
> The network is:
>
>  Peoples Open Network
>  
peoplesopen.net
>
> The SSID of the wifi/mesh is:
>
>  
peoplesopen.net
>
> The organization is:
>
>  
sudomesh.org
>
> and then we are thinking about using 
meshtheplanet.net (and
> 
meshthepla.net)
> as a campaign to get more people involved or a map of all community
> networks (like 
hackerspaces.org)
>
> We decided to change the decision from last week and not use the 
 name
 > 
peopleswifi.org as the SSID so as not to have
two different names 
 for
>> the
>> network.
>
> Would you be willing to work with the Free Network Foundation and our
> guifi.us effort for the mapping?
>
> Also look at 
guifi.net (they are working closely with global mesh
> networks to map everything).
> --
> Charles Wyble
> (818) 280-7059 charles(a)knownelement.com
> CTO Free Network Foundation (
thefnf.org)
>
> _______________________________________________
> mesh mailing list
> mesh(a)lists.sudoroom.org
> 
http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/mesh
> 
 I would browse the site and also talk to Roje/Pau at the summit. They 
 know the
site far better than I.
 Guifi.us is a 2.0 version of that site/concept and also more US centric.
 
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