Here are the SudoMesh meeting minutes from Tues, 3 April 2018:
Viewable online here:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/03_Apr_2018
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People's Open Network Weekly Meeting - 3 April 2018 7:30pm-9pm
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https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Safer_Space_Policy
=== Agenda ===
* Introductions and Meeting Roles (10 mins)
* Check in on previous action items (5 mins)
* Updates & Reportbacks (20 mins)
* Next Sunday (5 mins)
* Proposal: BYOI in Alameda (15 mins)
* Proposal: Node Installer Program (10 mins or breakout)
* Discussion: Loomio members (15 mins)
* Discussion: Paxio Gigabit Link (15 mins)
* Action Items (5 mins)
* Breakout Groups
=== Introductions ===
Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Icebreaker Response; BRIEF
Announcements
* Icebreaker question: Springtime activity of preference?
* jenny - she/her, cleaning and planting the backyard garden, passion
flowers...? passionfruit...flowers...? yeah!
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/450078556490001428/
* mai - she/her/they/them, also like cleaning. pulling hats off of
california poppies, has announcements! on April 21st, City of Oakland
having City Camp, Mark Burdett connected us with an organizer
**
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/citycamp-oakland-2018-our-city-our-future-tick…
* eve - she, hiking, been away a lot, is gonna be away a lot, has been
starting with HAM radio, going to take test in May
* grant - he/they - tiptoeing through the tulips. Getting sunlight,
listening to rain!
** Announcement: I met up with Toronto Mesh while visiting Toronto
recently. They're hosting the Our Networks conference the week before HOPE!
They informally invited sudomesh/PON.
https://ournetworks.ca
* lesley - going to yosemite, rock climbing! spent the day trying to get
heorku to work locally
* max - he/him - saying yes to more things that occur on thursday and
friday, cuz i recently quite my job on those days
* tom - he/him/we/us, is into tip toeing through california flora, going to
the beach, hiking
' seth, he/him/they, likes foraging around berkeley, picking fruit,
pineapple guava.
* ben - he/they, likes being barefoot, normally has a yard, not so much.
* - jason, was into the mesh a year ago, brought ubitquit and n600
(sierk is in sudo room and on sudopad)
=== Meeting Roles ===
* Facilitator/s: Ben
* Stacktaker: Mai
* Notetaker/s: jenny, grant
** URL of this pad:
https://peoplesopen.net/notes
* Next meeting's facilitator(s): Mai
== Check in on previous action items ==
Check previous meeting minutes at
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Minutes
and past action items below:
* Respond to emails for node mounts - Mai
** did, done, responded to Steven Brown, East Oakland, haven't heard back
** also responded to Paxio to get a gigabit link
* Action item - doodle + email for meeting time? - mai
** yes, jeremy sent out doodle, couple days work, decided on next Tuesday,
4/10, to hold straegy meeting
* Set up Loomio group to discuss and make a decision re: concretizing
relationship with the Omni - mai and jnny
** yes, put on loomio, go to rocket chat to get access
** link to join the PON Loomio group and see/join the discussion:
https://www.loomio.org/invitations/b3cbdf03062f692a02ae
* Ping Freifunk/Battlemesh organizers re: a live interactive something w/
them :D
** oooh, no, one put their name? next Battlemesh, they pinged us, we could
organize some sort of video conference
* coordinate w/ Doug about planning a mounting safety training - jorrit
** ben - talked to Doug about liability stuff, he'll talk more, and will
talk with Jenny
* Finish the "hey, awesome, you have a node now!" messaging (Benny) - Not
finished, will continue this Sunday
** grant - Benny worked on it, don't he quite finished it before leaving?
Might be beta testing it on Chuck to follow up on this weekend.
* finish biz plan & budget & send to insurance broker [jnny]
** just need to create financial reports -
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H8x3JnbGEkoeE3CwMzrCC0MD1tIAhb6O8JjLsiC…
*** done. financial reports generated & added to doc, sent to traci 4/2
* Newsletter: add content here:
https://peoplesopen.net/pad/p/pon-newsletter-2018-04
== Updates & Reportbacks ==
=== Bugs/Technical ===
Priority bugs we need help with are located at:
http://peoplesopen.net/helpwanted - For a high-level overview of recent
Github activity, see the Trello:
https://trello.com/invite/b/r9l5ouQ4/3b2eecd83bb9e7a57a339cf1ee038288/sudo-…
* (jorrit in absentio) A babeld-monitor has been introduced for exit nodes.
Currently, the monitor checks for babeld out of memory issues every 10
minutes, and if so, it restarts babeld and re-registers the tunnel
interfaces. A functional workaround that buys us time to actually fix the
root cause: an apparent memory leak in our fork of babeld. For more
information see bug
https://github.com/sudomesh/bugs/issues/24 and
https://github.com/sudomesh/exitnode/tree/master/src/opt/babeld-monitor and
https://github.com/sudomesh/exitnode/tree/master/src/etc/systemd/system.
* (jorrit in absentio) Update on exit node migration - Hurricane Electric
Exit Node now has 4 connected home nodes, the old psychz has 14 . It
appears that whoever manages those nodes are not informed, do not have the
know-how, incentive or will to patch their nodes.
* grant - can talk about a few of these...
* grant: lots of instructions on how to write patches, witten by
me/jorrit/benny
https://github.com/sudomesh/patches
** #13: private meshing (via yar) [issues w/ ad-hoc mode and WPA2
encryption. not a simple issue]
** priority - giving priority to private node when being used, then
allocating all bandwidth to mesh when not in use
** tunneldigger doesn't start correctly on zeroconf. haven't opened an
issue for it yet
=== Node Mounts & Outreach ===
Node Mounts Trello:
https://trello.com/invite/b/DtzngKaM/49e1c21fc9da199fcdeceb8623b5117a/node-…
** ben - wrapped up node mount at Chuck's place on Sunday, Monday
* grant - would like to reach out to Reed Brother's location as possible
link to Paxio
** grant - Jehan, Will have been in contact with them in the past. Probably
just going to go visit in person.
** jnny - will's gotta baby now! but is usually very responsive via email
** ben - can we consolidate notes/efforts on this someplace? I feel like
this is more actionable than the archive link for now.
** mai - waiting to hear back from Paxio regarding whether or not they have
an AP we can access, or if we need to install both ends of the link.
* sierk - node mount at Ed's (& Captain Morgan's?) - bottom of Park Blvd,
near Lake Merritt -- either on 4/15 or 4/22
* mai - waiting to hear back from steven brown in east Oakland. Will get in
touch with their aunt and uncle about installing a node at their house near
grand lake theater on valle vista (close to chuck's)
** Chimney visible at aunt & uncle's home. Might not have Internet,
possibly interested.
* ben - discussing with James Allgood near the Oakland zoo.
** still sorting out a date
* jnny - Rob and I have the part we need to wrap up power at Dianne's place
* grant - Dev reached back out. He's ordered the conduit for the power
upgrade.
=== Communications & Events ===
Comms Trello:
https://trello.com/invite/b/f3ugMPNU/94033ee6c2cef93fc1b1637b727c902a/sudo-…
// Events Trello:
https://trello.com/invite/b/Y3XfDK85/2b6fcb4fa92788609692a53a96fb4614/peopl…
* Webinar for WINS Stage 2 teams with Steve Huter. "Steve Huter is the
Director for the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) and a Research
Associate at the University of Oregon."
** Can email in questions for Steve in advance.
* Press Inquiry on community-owned networks and resiliency to climate change
* CityCamp - Waiting to see how we can be more formally added to the
schedule if that's possible.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/citycamp-oakland-2018-our-city-our-future-tick…
* CiviCamp -
=== Internal Logistics / Finance ===
Internal Logistics & Bureaucracy Trello:
https://trello.com/invite/b/LzVQlW3X/1bb8bd543c8633688175365d2554c2c2/inter…
* Items to order:
** Roof mounting tripods - qty 4-6 -
https://www.3starinc.com/5_foot_tri-mount.html
** Ubiquiti Surge Protectors (for AirFibers) - qty 2 -
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?ignorebbr=true&nm_mc=KNC-Go…
** MikroTik WIreless Wire - qty 1 -
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA51G78F5271&cm_re=m…
** Precision Alignment Kit (recommended by Dev)
https://www.ubnt.com/accessories/precision-alignment-kit/
https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-PAK-620-Precision-Alignment-620mm/dp/B012X4…
* jenny: 2017 taxes done
== Next Sunday ==
=== Node Mount ===
We try to arrange a rooftop node mount every Sunday afternoon. Ongoing
spreadsheet is located at:
https://peoplesopen.net/sundays
* Next Sunday's mount: action item'd
=== Office Hours ===
We host office hours every Sunday from 1-2pm in Sudo Room. To sign up for a
shift, fill in your name here:
https://ethercalc.org/byoi_office_hours
* Next Sunday's volunteer: Ben
== Proposal: BYOI in Alameda ==
* It's almost 3 months from the last BYOI — where and when should we make
the next BYOI? What if we reached out to Amos to do a BYOI and provide them
with a microgrant from our Mozilla/NSF grant funds to set up a mesh there
as part of the event?
** mai - could use the BYOI event as an inroad to providing them with a
microgrant as that becomes an option financially
** grant - I followed up with Amos, who said he would be doing some
outreach to folks in the area. Still waiting to hear back. A lot of folks
were CC'd and could follow up.
** mai - I'm generally interested in organizing an offsite BYOI, whether
it's there or elsewhere.
* '''Consenso?''' Folks seem cool with moving forward on this.
== Proposal: Node Installer Program ==
Who'd like to be a certified PONI!
To become a “certified” People’s Open Node Installer (a PONI), one must
complete the three following tasks:
1. Participate in a Node Mount Training and Safety Explanation session
(either at the Omni or on-site)
2. Contribute to at least one (ideally two) node mounts, this means going
along, learning the steps, becoming familiar with equipment, and
interacting with the node owner.
3. Facilitate at least one node mount, this means finding someone from our
list (or just a friend, family member, co-worker) who’d like a node,
scheduling the installation, performing day-of coordination, and completing
the install.
Node installers should also be familiar with (and contribute to?) the
material at
https://github.com/sudomesh/mounting
This should be decoupled from the NWP, i.e. you don't need to be a node
whisperer to be PONI, but you should be able to convince a whisperer join
your mount.
* Minimum Node Mount Team:
** 1 certified (or provisional) PONI
** 1 node whisperer
** 1 communication and safety cooridinator
*** teams can be a minimum of two people where one fulfills two of the
above classificiations, but three individuals is preferrable
If no objections, we can hold a breakout group to hammer down some details
and create/edit a training guide (in mounting repo?)
* jorrit added that a PONI should also have to train a PONI
* jnny - having a training / certification program could be good for
showing to insurance companies.
== Discussion: Loomio members ==
* We've started a Loomio discussion about concretizing our relationship
with the Omni:
https://www.loomio.org/d/L7RQWNlj/concretizing-relationship-with-the-omni
** The question is, who should we invite to be members of Loomio
decisionmakers? Should we be sending out discussions/proposal votes out to
the bigger sudo mesh list?
== Discussion: Paxio Gigabit Link ==
* Mai has been in contact with Paxio through Tim Pozar about getting a
gigabit link to the Omni — photos and more info here on Trello:
https://trello.com/c/fc0glHmF/48-paxio-the-omni-gigabit-link
** They have wireless assets. It seems like the main obstruction is the
StorQuest building.
* Do we have ideas on people we can be in touch with to see if they'd be
down to install a node and be a hopping point for this connection?
** jenny: kapor center is at a good angle between here & there...
== Proposal: Solar powered extender node ==
* $300 to make two solar-powered repeaters
== Action Items ==
* solar powered extender nodes?
* Talk to other wireless companies re: how they do general liability
insurance - jnny + ben
* order items to order - jnny
* open zeroconf tunneldigger issue - grant
* get in touch with Reed Brothers - grant, will?
* be in touch with Paxio re: gigabit link - mai
== Breakout Groups ==
At the end of the meeting, break out into small groups to hack on or
discuss specific topics.
* solar powered nodes/hardware?
* Identifying a node mount for this Sunday
* PONI interest meeting
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/06_Feb_2018>
On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 10:19 PM, Mai Ishikawa Sutton <maira.sutton(a)gmail.com
wrote:
Hey there,
This is your reminder to add any topics you'd like to be discussed at the
People's Open Network meeting on Tues 3 April 2018.
Please add your discussion item(s) where it says "== Discussion: X ==" or
"== Proposal: X ==" and include any concise, relevant comments to inform
the discussion. Remember to also add the topic at the top under Agenda.
If you add something, we expect you to come to the meeting to give some
context and lead that discussion.
Thanks,
Mai