New subject: wifi spectrum analyzer

6 Jul 2013

Hey so I was thinking about some of the things that were percolating
during the last meeting and I was wondering if folks thought it might be
a good idea to host an upcoming "Today I Learned" session. There are a
bunch of open slots in the next couple of months and it looks like
there's a lot of enthusiasm about mesh stuff among the sudo crowd.

We could encourage people to bring in their own routers, or potentially
provide some of the ones that the mesh group already has (don't have to
be the ubiquiti ones). We could all flash them together, teach people a
bit about openWRT and batman-adv, the very basics of networking, and
have them set-up to bring the routers home and have their own mesh node up.

Likely, we would be targeting mostly the Sudo folks who already have
some knowledge or interest and who might or might not be within our sort
of target areas, but I think it could be really useful in doing a couple
of things:

1. Practicing a lot of the public facing aspects of setting up the mesh
among folks who are already excited and onboard.
2. Motivation to move forwards on figuring out how we'd like to
configure mesh nodes
3. Getting a feel for communicating the important technological and
cultural aspects of the mesh to the public.
4. Getting some momentum on the project and setting up a bunch of mesh
nodes!

I have a pretty reasonable amount of free time over the upcoming few
months. I'm working on scaling up my relevant technical skills, but I'm
certainly not as knowledgeable as others on this list. That being said,
I could make myself available for some of the other less technical
aspects of bringing something like this together (coordinating,
logistics, cleaning, etc).

What do people think?

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