At this point it really should become 'This Month in Mesh!' but I'll keep
the bar high for now and hope to get back on track with weekly updates ;)
*
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*Announcements:
*
- Hack night tomorrow night (Thursday)! We convene at 7:30pm at Sudo
Room (located at 2141 Broadway in Oakland) and typically go late. Come hack
on firmware, our shiny new websites, our community outreach plan - whatever
your interest / skill set, there is plenty for you to do!
- We are officially SUDO MESH! - and the network we're building is
People's Open Network. While the network itself remains free and open to
anybody, we encourage other organizations to form that maintain and support
the network in diverse ways!
**
*Events:
*
- *Tonight*, 10/16 from 7-10pm, Open Garden is hosting an event demoing
the Open Garden mobile mesh software followed by an open discussion on mesh
technologies. Location is at a start-up live/work space at 20th and Mission
in SF (20mission). RSVP here:
http://www.meetup.com/Tech-Garden-SF/events/143141932/
- *Friday*, 10/18 from 6-9pm we will be hosting an Oakland Map
Jam<https://www.facebook.com/events/253104951503511/?ref=br_tf>to
document the shared resources of Oakland - from coops to community
gardens, hackerspaces to free schools and everything related to sharing and
commons-based resources. Join us!
- This *Sunday*, 2-5pm! We are hosting a Cryptoparty at Sudo
Room<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Cryptoparty>- come co-learn about
mobile phone security, hard drive encryption, browser
security and secure email - space for lightning talks at the days end.
Event listing is here:
https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/cryptoparty-a-digital-security-privacy-wor…
*Wiki:
*
*[NOTE: You can make this process easier for me by adding a descriptive
comment when creating or updating a wiki page!]
*
- Juul created Mesh/Hosting <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Hosting> for
documenting information on our hosting providers.
- Juul created Mesh/Backup <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Backup> with
info on how our backup system works.
- Juul created Mesh/Server
security<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Server_security>-
self-explanatory.
- Juul updated Mesh/Naming <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Naming> with
details on the domains we own associated with our org and network names.
- ChrisJ created
Mesh/Monitoring<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Monitoring>to document
the work he and Maxb have been doing to monitor router
statistics
- ChrisJ created Mesh/Ascii Art <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Ascii_Art> to
add designs for the motd login.
- Maxb updated Mesh/Firmware
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware>with a list of 'Nice to Have'
- Juul created Mesh/Tracking
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Tracking>with info on our stance re:
tracking user logs [tl;dr: we will be logging
the very minimum necessary for operations]
- Tunabananas created Mapping <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mapping> to
document the various map-based projects happening at sudo room, which will
eventually be incorporated in the mesh application layer.
- Juul updated
Mesh/WalkThrough<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/WalkThrough>with
details on configuring your IP address when flashing.
- Maxb updated Mesh/Firmware/Bandwidth
shaping<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware/Bandwidth_shaping>with
details on a kink when measuring max bandwidth.
- Maxb updated Mesh/Firmware <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware>,
adding user statistics and RSSI Testing to our list of Wants
- Maxb and Juul created
Mesh/Stickers<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Stickers>with our sticker
images.
- Maxb added Meeting Minutes for September
27th<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/27_September_2013>
- Deekoo checked out some hardware
[
Mesh/Checkouts<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Checkouts>
].
- Rhodey updated
Mesh/Firmware/Generating<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware/Generat…
- Tunabananas added Meeting Minutes for September
18<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/18_September_2013>13>,
September 11 <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/11_September_2013>, September
4 <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/04_September_2013>, August
28<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/28_August_2013>and July
31 <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/31_July_2013> before abandoning all
y'all for 3 weeks.
- Juul has also been working on DisasterRadio/Android
app<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/DisasterRadio/Android_app>
!
- I can not go back further than Sept 15, but there has certainly been a
great amount of work happening. Excellent job team!
*Recommended Reading:
*
- Ambient
Connectivity<http://frankston.com/public/?n=AmbientConnectivity&x=ho…
to Mitar for the tip)
- The Telekommunist
Manifesto<http://media.telekommunisten.net/manifesto.pdf>(met Dmytri
at the weekly Stammtisch in Berlin!)
- Commotion Construction Kit
<https://commotionwireless.net/fr/node/9434>for building mesh networks
(I'll bring paper versions of this tomorrow)
- Reply to this thread if you've read something awesome lately :)
Can't wait to reconnect with y'all tomorrow!
<3
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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