28 Dec
2014
28 Dec
'14
5:09 p.m.
hi all,
i have a few questions as i attempt to update the wiki, add a new
blogpost (maybe pen an article for an outside publication on the
project), and update an outreach plan.
but i'm dim about what our next goals are and who/where we want to
outreach to about mounting a router.
i'd like to request that at our next thurs meeting we spend the first hour:
-answering a few questions,
-looking at our existing outreach list
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OxG6s1NFAEd9dasX5-Hdrz4jR6IWk9CkQTDDhIaZhhk/edit#gid=0>,
-prioritize it, and
-list what materials we need to update/create to bring our outreach
partners a solid proposal.
would folks mind doing that? i'll gladly facilitate to help keep us on
point and to the point :) i'll also take notes and add the ether pad to
the wiki. this will help me to dig in and hack on our community
organizing moving forward.
also, does anyone here know what parts of the wiki need some love? (we
can also list the outdated pages this thurs in 2015)
excelsior,
april
30 Dec
30 Dec
1:12 p.m.
Hi April,
Super glad that you're revisiting the docs!
I'm currently out of town for a little while, but hoping to ramp up some
dev work from here (turns out parent's houses are good distraction-free
zones...)
i'm dim about what our next goals are and who/where we want to outreach to
about mounting a router.
I would say that there are a few groups of people:
- The most important folks would be anyone who can provide us with an
internet uplink. It would probably also require us to be able to install a
little gear on their roof or somehow otherwise transmit that bandwidth to a
remote location.
- The second most important group would be anyone who has access to a high
point, whether that be a roof with good line of sight around them, someone
with a radio tower, someone living in the hills, etc.
- The last group would be anyone who would want to host one of the
"indoor" nodes. We haven't generally had any problems finding these folks
in the past. ALSO, the firmware for these devices had to be re-vamped and
is not yet finished (hopefully what I'll be doing while I'm here....)
i'd like to request that at our next thurs meeting
we spend the first
hour:
-answering a few questions,
-looking at our existing outreach list
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OxG6s1NFAEd9dasX5-Hdrz4jR6IWk9CkQTDDhIaZhhk/edit#gid=0>
,
-prioritize it, and
-list what materials we need to update/create to bring our outreach
partners a solid proposal.
I absolutely agree, although I won't be there. If it looks like there are
specific questions or whatever that I can answer I can try to be on IRC or
etherpad for the meeting.
also, does anyone here know what parts of the wiki need some love? (we can
also list the outdated pages this thurs in 2015)
From my perspective, the parts that need the most love
are documentation of
our current progress and status. This also coincides with our
lack of a
project management framework. I know that folks don't really like being
cornered into using tools they don't like, but we're all a little fuzzy
about who is actually working on what and when. I've looked some various
projects and I'm thinking about setting up a test installation of
https://github.com/malclocke/fulcrum
As for the wiki, the following pages are pretty out of date and don't
reflect much current content:
- https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware
This is largely my fault, but reflects on the difficulty in visualizing
where exactly we are with ongoing development and what is left to do
- https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/ToDos
This also largely reflects on the difficulty in visualizing where exactly
we are with ongoing work. It might be a good start to figure out where
exactly we are and what we want to do and articulate this here
- https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Funding
I'm starting to think more and more that we're going to need to really
start generating more income. We certainly have a good start, but I think
that if we ever want to create the kind of service we're hoping to then
we'll need some more cash (maybe even enough to pay some staff?). This page
is already nicely compiled, but we might want to dive a little deeper to
see if we can actually seize on any of them.
Other people might have other opinions about pages that need work, but
that's what I've got for the moment...
Hopefully some of that is useful.
Max
On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 6:09 PM, April Glaser <april.glaser(a)riseup.net>
wrote:
> hi all,
>
> i have a few questions as i attempt to update the wiki, add a new blogpost
> (maybe pen an article for an outside publication on the project), and
> update an outreach plan.
>
> but i'm dim about what our next goals are and who/where we want to
> outreach to about mounting a router.
>
> i'd like to request that at our next thurs meeting we spend the first hour:
>
> -answering a few questions,
> -looking at our existing outreach list
>
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OxG6s1NFAEd9dasX5-Hdrz4jR6IWk9CkQTDDhIaZhhk/edit#gid=0>,
>
> -prioritize it, and
> -list what materials we need to update/create to bring our outreach
> partners a solid proposal.
>
> would folks mind doing that? i'll gladly facilitate to help keep us on
> point and to the point :) i'll also take notes and add the ether pad to the
> wiki. this will help me to dig in and hack on our community organizing
> moving forward.
>
> also, does anyone here know what parts of the wiki need some love? (we can
also list the outdated pages this thurs in 2015)
>
> excelsior,
> april
>
>
>
>
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> mesh(a)lists.sudoroom.org
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>
31 Dec
31 Dec
12:15 p.m.
hi max!
hope you're having a warm, relaxing, and productive break - wherever you
are.
here are our notes from our meeting yesterday:
https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudomesh
i incorporated your comments.
we have a heavy to-do list but they are all pretty light lifts. we'll
likely not meet this thrusday b/c it's a rare holiday. but we are
meeting at Omni on Sunday at 2p to climb someone's roof.
summary:
-we are focusing on funding and listing/reaching out to uplink options
-we will have a 2 day small retreat for regulars soon to map goals and
make firmware progress and apply for grants
-we want to start mounting antennas, maybe every sunday?
-landlord is not cool with drilling into the Omni roof. marc proposed
using sandbags.
more soon,
april
On 12/30/14 1:12 PM, max b wrote:
Hi April,
Super glad that you're revisiting the docs!
I'm currently out of town for a little while, but hoping to ramp up
some dev work from here (turns out parent's houses are good
distraction-free zones...)
i'm dim about what our next goals are and who/where we want to
outreach to about mounting a router.
I would say that there are a few groups of people:
- The most important folks would be anyone who can provide us with an
internet uplink. It would probably also require us to be able to
install a little gear on their roof or somehow otherwise transmit that
bandwidth to a remote location.
- The second most important group would be anyone who has access to a
high point, whether that be a roof with good line of sight around
them, someone with a radio tower, someone living in the hills, etc.
- The last group would be anyone who would want to host one of the
"indoor" nodes. We haven't generally had any problems finding these
folks in the past. ALSO, the firmware for these devices had to be
re-vamped and is not yet finished (hopefully what I'll be doing while
I'm here....)
i'd like to request that at our next thurs meeting we spend the
first hour:
-answering a few questions,
-looking at our existing outreach list
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OxG6s1NFAEd9dasX5-Hdrz4jR6IWk9CkQTDDhIaZhhk/edit#gid=0>,
-prioritize it, and
-list what materials we need to update/create to bring our
outreach partners a solid proposal.
I absolutely agree, although I won't be there. If it looks like there
are specific questions or whatever that I can answer I can try to be
on IRC or etherpad for the meeting.
also, does anyone here know what parts of the wiki need some love?
(we can also list the outdated pages this thurs in 2015)
From my perspective, the parts that need the most love are
documentation of our current progress and status. This also coincides
with our lack of a project management framework. I know that folks
don't really like being cornered into using tools they don't like, but
we're all a little fuzzy about who is actually working on what and
when. I've looked some various projects and I'm thinking about setting
up a test installation of https://github.com/malclocke/fulcrum
As for the wiki, the following pages are pretty out of date and don't
reflect much current content:
- https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware
This is largely my fault, but reflects on the difficulty in
visualizing where exactly we are with ongoing development and what is
left to do
- https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/ToDos
This also largely reflects on the difficulty in visualizing where
exactly we are with ongoing work. It might be a good start to figure
out where exactly we are and what we want to do and articulate this here
- https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Funding
I'm starting to think more and more that we're going to need to really
start generating more income. We certainly have a good start, but I
think that if we ever want to create the kind of service we're hoping
to then we'll need some more cash (maybe even enough to pay some
staff?). This page is already nicely compiled, but we might want to
dive a little deeper to see if we can actually seize on any of them.
Other people might have other opinions about pages that need work, but
that's what I've got for the moment...
Hopefully some of that is useful.
Max
On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 6:09 PM, April Glaser <april.glaser(a)riseup.net
<mailto:april.glaser@riseup.net>> wrote:
hi all,
i have a few questions as i attempt to update the wiki, add a new
blogpost (maybe pen an article for an outside publication on the
project), and update an outreach plan.
but i'm dim about what our next goals are and who/where we want to
outreach to about mounting a router.
i'd like to request that at our next thurs meeting we spend the
first hour:
-answering a few questions,
-looking at our existing outreach list
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OxG6s1NFAEd9dasX5-Hdrz4jR6IWk9CkQTDDhIaZhhk/edit#gid=0>,
-prioritize it, and
-list what materials we need to update/create to bring our
outreach partners a solid proposal.
would folks mind doing that? i'll gladly facilitate to help keep
us on point and to the point :) i'll also take notes and add the
ether pad to the wiki. this will help me to dig in and hack on our
community organizing moving forward.
also, does anyone here know what parts of the wiki need some love?
(we can also list the outdated pages this thurs in 2015)
excelsior,
april
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12:24 p.m.
Hehehehe well I'm in Colorado and the high yesterday was 3 degrees F, but
otherwise it's been good.
Just on the point of drilling vs sandbags for roof installation, here is
what a LMI installation looks like at an office building in Berkeley:
[image: Inline image 1]
So it looks like they might just be making use of a bunch of mortar blocks.
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 1:15 PM, April Glaser <april.glaser(a)riseup.net>
wrote:
hi max!
hope you're having a warm, relaxing, and productive break - wherever you
are.
here are our notes from our meeting yesterday:
https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudomesh
i incorporated your comments.
we have a heavy to-do list but they are all pretty light lifts. we'll
likely not meet this thrusday b/c it's a rare holiday. but we are meeting
at Omni on Sunday at 2p to climb someone's roof.
summary:
-we are focusing on funding and listing/reaching out to uplink options
-we will have a 2 day small retreat for regulars soon to map goals and
make firmware progress and apply for grants
-we want to start mounting antennas, maybe every sunday?
-landlord is not cool with drilling into the Omni roof. marc proposed
using sandbags.
more soon,
april
On 12/30/14 1:12 PM, max b wrote:
Hi April,
Super glad that you're revisiting the docs!
I'm currently out of town for a little while, but hoping to ramp up some
dev work from here (turns out parent's houses are good distraction-free
zones...)
i'm dim about what our next goals are and who/where we want to outreach
to about mounting a router.
I would say that there are a few groups of people:
- The most important folks would be anyone who can provide us with an
internet uplink. It would probably also require us to be able to install a
little gear on their roof or somehow otherwise transmit that bandwidth to a
remote location.
- The second most important group would be anyone who has access to a
high point, whether that be a roof with good line of sight around them,
someone with a radio tower, someone living in the hills, etc.
- The last group would be anyone who would want to host one of the
"indoor" nodes. We haven't generally had any problems finding these folks
in the past. ALSO, the firmware for these devices had to be re-vamped and
is not yet finished (hopefully what I'll be doing while I'm here....)
i'd like to request that at our next thurs
meeting we spend the first
hour:
-answering a few questions,
-looking at our existing outreach list
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OxG6s1NFAEd9dasX5-Hdrz4jR6IWk9CkQTDDhIaZhhk/edit#gid=0>
,
-prioritize it, and
-list what materials we need to update/create to bring our outreach
partners a solid proposal.
I absolutely agree, although I won't be there. If it looks like there
are specific questions or whatever that I can answer I can try to be on IRC
or etherpad for the meeting.
also, does anyone here know what parts of the wiki need some love? (we
can also list the outdated pages this thurs in
2015)
From my perspective, the parts that need the most love are documentation
of our current progress and status. This also coincides with our lack of a
project management framework. I know that folks don't really like being
cornered into using tools they don't like, but we're all a little fuzzy
about who is actually working on what and when. I've looked some various
projects and I'm thinking about setting up a test installation of
https://github.com/malclocke/fulcrum
As for the wiki, the following pages are pretty out of date and don't
reflect much current content:
- https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware
This is largely my fault, but reflects on the difficulty in visualizing
where exactly we are with ongoing development and what is left to do
- https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/ToDos
This also largely reflects on the difficulty in visualizing where exactly
we are with ongoing work. It might be a good start to figure out where
exactly we are and what we want to do and articulate this here
- https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Funding
I'm starting to think more and more that we're going to need to really
start generating more income. We certainly have a good start, but I think
that if we ever want to create the kind of service we're hoping to then
we'll need some more cash (maybe even enough to pay some staff?). This page
is already nicely compiled, but we might want to dive a little deeper to
see if we can actually seize on any of them.
Other people might have other opinions about pages that need work, but
that's what I've got for the moment...
Hopefully some of that is useful.
Max
On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 6:09 PM, April Glaser <april.glaser(a)riseup.net>
wrote:
> hi all,
>
> i have a few questions as i attempt to update the wiki, add a new
> blogpost (maybe pen an article for an outside publication on the project),
> and update an outreach plan.
>
> but i'm dim about what our next goals are and who/where we want to
> outreach to about mounting a router.
>
> i'd like to request that at our next thurs meeting we spend the first
> hour:
>
> -answering a few questions,
> -looking at our existing outreach list
>
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OxG6s1NFAEd9dasX5-Hdrz4jR6IWk9CkQTDDhIaZhhk/edit#gid=0>,
>
> -prioritize it, and
> -list what materials we need to update/create to bring our outreach
> partners a solid proposal.
>
> would folks mind doing that? i'll gladly facilitate to help keep us on
> point and to the point :) i'll also take notes and add the ether pad to the
> wiki. this will help me to dig in and hack on our community organizing
> moving forward.
>
> also, does anyone here know what parts of the wiki need some love? (we
can also list the outdated pages this thurs in
2015)
>
> excelsior,
> april
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> mesh mailing list
> mesh(a)lists.sudoroom.org
> https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/mesh
>
>
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