25 Sep
2014
25 Sep
'14
12:05 p.m.
It's been a crazily active summer - apologies for the lack of updates! Sudo
Room (and by extension, Sudo Mesh) has relocated to the Omni Oakland Commons
<http://omni-oakland.org> at 4799 Shattuck. We're excited to be a founding
member collective among an array of groups that have moved in together to
create a radical commons in Oakland.
If you've been wanting to plug in and help out, or simply reconnect to the
group, tonight is a great night to come by and check out the new space!
*Announcements*
* We'll be having our monthly general meeting today, starting at 7:30pm at
Sudo Room. Please add to the agenda! - https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudomesh
* Juul, MaxB and Alex have been working hard on crushing bugs and levelling
up our mesh firmware. We've deployed a test network within the Omni
building and they are successfully meshing as I type! \o/
* We've procured a 75 foot antenna tower that will be mounted in West
Oakland to become a core relay spot for routing traffic on the mesh.
* Noemie has put together a fantastic sudomesh / people's open net video
and is currently soliciting feedback. Check it out @
http://youtu.be/qva1SQSBDyE
* Paige made a rad flyer design and two versions of the flyer for a)
general ways to participate in the project and b) promoting upcoming info
sessions. Check them out here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Flyers
* Stickers!! The round 'Mesh the Planet' and rectangular PeoplesOpen.Net
stickers have been printed and can be procured at sudoroom (atio the white
shelves next to the staircase) and/or one of our Tuesday/Thursday meetups!
*Code* - *so much code this summer!!*
* Juul created ipk-builder: https://github.com/sudomesh/ipk-builder
* MaxB, Ron, and Juul have been updating the service browser:
https://github.com/sudomesh/service-browser
* Juul, MaxB, and Alex reengineered the node-configurator:
https://github.com/sudomesh/makenode
* MaxB, Alex and Matt fixed the exitnode
<https://github.com/sudomesh/exitnode>
* MaxB created sudowrt-firmware-images
<https://github.com/sudomesh/sudowrt-firmware-images> for temporary storage
of firmware builds
* Matt added a patch to sudowrt-firmware
<https://github.com/sudomesh/sudowrt-firmware>
* Alex and MaxB have been fixing our fork of tunneldigger
<https://github.com/sudomesh/tunneldigger>
* MaxB fixed sudowrt-packages <https://github.com/sudomesh/sudowrt-packages>
* Juul updated ubi-flasher <https://github.com/sudomesh/ubi-flasher>
* Juul added fixes to meshnode-database
<https://github.com/sudomesh/meshnode-database>
* Matt created svg-animations <https://github.com/sudomesh/svg-animations>
for mesh presentations
*Wiki*
* Tunabananas created Mesh/Flyers <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Flyers>
and uploaded Paige's flyers
* ChrisJ updated Mesh/Monitoring <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Flyers>
and created Mesh/Icinga <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Icinga_2>
* Matt added instructions to Mesh/Firmware/Flash
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware/Flash>
* Jul added to Mesh/Hardware Support
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Hardware_support>
* GMeader created the page Mesh/San Francisco
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/San_Francisco> and added to Mesh/Marketing
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Marketing>
* MaxB added sticker images to Mesh/Stickers
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Stickers>
* ChrisJ created Mesh/Sensu <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Sensu_Page>
* Tunabananas added recent research on broadband access in Oakland to
Mesh/Oakland <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Oakland>
* Tunabananas added some months worth of meeting minutes to Mesh/Minutes
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Minutes>
* Jwentwistle added a bunch of documentation to Mesh/BATMAN-adv
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/BATMAN-adv>
* Jwentwistle and Tunabananas cleaned up the main Mesh
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh> page!
* Jwentwistle moved Mesh/MeshApps primarily to Mesh/Distributed Services
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Distributed_Services>
* Jwentwistle created and added slides to Mesh/Presentation
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Presentation>
* Jwentwistle created Mesh/User Guide
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/User_Guide>
* Jwentwistle created Mesh/Technical Overview
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Technical_Overview>
* MaxB checked some stuff out <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Checkouts>
* Matt added some diagrams to Mesh/Diagrams
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Diagrams>
* Jwentwistle added bandwidth shaping details to Mesh/Firmware
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware>
* MaxB added some ideas for our box of crappy routers to Mesh/Inventory
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Inventory>
* Tunabananas wrote a new post on Mesh/Blog
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Blog>
* Aep added to Mesh/MeshApps <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/MeshApps>
*To Dos*
* Test current mesh setup in the Omni building
* Create online ordering system and shipping label automation
* Create 'How to Care for Your Node' guides
* Outreach to spaces that can host info sessions and presentations
* Work on local apps and services that will run on the mesh!
* More at: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/ToDos
** Please update the list above with specific tasks!
*Help Out!*
* Come by our weekly hacknights, Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 7:30pm
at Sudo Room <https://sudoroom.org>
* Contribute research, ideas, designs to our wiki: https://sudomesh.org
* Contribute to the code: https://github.com/sudomesh
* Donate hardware and equipment! <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Wishlist>
* Give a small weekly donation: https://www.gittip.com/sudomesh
*Recommended Reading*
* Oakland's Sudo Mesh looks to counter censorship and the digital divide
with a mesh network:
http://techpresident.com/news/25200/oakland-sudo-mesh-counter-censorship-di…
* It's Time for Open, Shared Home Wi-Fi (Re/Code):
http://recode.net/2014/08/05/its-time-for-shared-open-home-wi-fi/
See y'all tonight!
Jenny
http://jennyryan.net
http://thepyre.org
http://thevirtualcampfire.org
http://technomadic.tumblr.com
`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
"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
~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
25 Sep
25 Sep
2:41 p.m.
Thanks for the update! So much awesomeness going on Jenny! I also wanted to
introduce myself to the list seeing as how I've been to a couple of #mesh
meetings by now but only met a handful of you...I'm an Oakland-based
filmmaker (I live down the block) obsessed with the intersection of
society, culture, and technology. I've been so warmly received by everyone
whom I've met and want to thank you all for that. And I want to see the
mesh succeed!
It's timely to let everyone know I have begun making a (feature-length)
documentary about the mesh project, and other mesh projects around the
world. This will be a topical deep-dive into this specific topic, separate
but alongside Noemie's Sudo Room project at large. So, I am looking to
document all aspects of the process! Obviously meetings are a great place
to start, but I would like to capture stuff going on out in the 'real'
world in addition - dumpster diving expeditions for equipment, site visits,
antenna/node installation days (west oak?), tests, everything! I would ask
that anyone who's doing anything outside of mesh meetings give me a heads
up so I can (if you're willing) come along and document the happenings. I
wanna catch all this as it's happening so nothing gets missed :)
Although I can't make tonight's meeting, I'll be hard at work this weekend
ramping up to begin production full-scale. I hope to meet and interview
some or most of you at some point - so please feel free to reach out if
you've got some spare time or won't be able to see me at the next mesh
meeting (where I'll do most of the interviews).
Cheers!
-Jesse
805.234.1988
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Jenny Ryan <tunabananas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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2:48 p.m.
Hi Jesse!
This sounds exciting and I look forward to hearing more about it. Would you
be able to attend next week's mesh meetup for 20 minutes to tell us more
about your work, project, and thoughts moving forward?
I want to caution, before you move too far along with your production
plans, that we have not officially consented on this project and would need
to do so before we could allow you to begin regularly filming our
processes. I would like to encourage you to post your proposal to the list
and field questions, and then visit and introduce yourself to the group,
before beginning any further filming of sudomesh.
Thank you,
Jenny
http://jennyryan.net
http://thepyre.org
http://thevirtualcampfire.org
http://technomadic.tumblr.com
`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
"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
~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Jesse Clark <jesse(a)cinematicsyndicate.com>
wrote:
2:55 p.m.
Sounds great Jenny. Would that next meeting be next Thursday? I will post
the proposal to the list in the next couple of days and gladly field any
questions anyone may have.
In terms of official consent, what would I need to obtain in order to
proceed (assuming no objections are raised) other than releases from each
person on camera and verbal consensus from the main stakeholders of the
collective? Stoked to work with your guys' process and keep the lines of
communication wide open.
cheers,
J
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Jenny Ryan <tunabananas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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PHOTOGRAPHYCONNECT: <http://www.vimeo.com/cinsyndicate>
<http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Cinematic-Syndicate/144564148926720>*
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