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by Romy Ilano

In the latest OReilly newsletter Ellen F. writes about a cat with a radio collar who wanders around neighborhoods to check for weak points in neighborhood wifis. I'm wondering if SudoMesh could do something similar - attach a radio collar to an outdoors cat to detect existing Sudomesh networks? Maybe that would be a fun hack! https://www.mapr.com/blog/the-internet-of-cat-toys?imm_mid=0c3ab9&cmp=em-na… One cat, a radio collar, and a night on the town – this little adventure turned into an entertaining article in *Wired* magazine 8 August 2014 by Andy Greenberg about the creative use of a feline investigator to find weak points in security of the neighborhood’s wifis <http://www.wired.com/2014/08/how-to-use-your-cat-to-hack-your-neighbors-wi-…> . ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

11 years, 7 months

Who can dump truck in the AM?

by David Keenan

Hi all, - Who has truck key -- Gabriela? - Who can make a dump run tomorrow? It needs to go to: Commercial Waste & Recycling 1. 725 Independent Rd, Oakland, CA 94621 2. (510) 636-0852 - I can't do it, so I really hope someone can..? Or we will be charged another $100/day for renting the truck.. - Gabriela, when does truck need to be returned? - It will probably cost about ~$200 to dump.. Maybe less, but to be on the safe side. OOC will reimburse or, you can borrow card from: Jenny, Joel or Niki. Hope someone can do this.. Thanks all! Xo! D

11 years, 7 months

Who is doing the dump run?

by David Keenan

11 years, 7 months

Who wants to host newbie night some night between 5th and 11th of October

by Marc Juul

Whoever hosts is responsible for: 1) adding event to the calendar, 2) posting to sudo-discuss mailing list and otherwise promoting, 3) showing up! 4) answering the door, giving tours, and otherwise being friendly and answering questions. 5) have a planned activity ready to avoid awkwardness You decide when to have it, but if it's on a weekday it should probably be no earlier than 6 pm. -- marc/juul

11 years, 7 months

Sudo Room looking RAD for the fundraising video: we need all sudo-ers!!! Oct. 5th

by Noemie Serfaty

Sudoer! As you may know already, the film collective is preparing a bad ass fundraising video, in order to help raise 2 million $ for the Omni. The video being a crucial aspect of the crowdfunding campaign, we need your participation! The film collective's concept is to do a one shot walkthrough of the OMNI IN ACTION. *We need as many sudo-ers as possible to participate in the shoot *that will take place on *OCTOBER 5th from noon to 5pm! *We're not sure it will last that long, but we are sure that we all need to be ready to shoot by noon. Please save the date! It will be super fun too! The video concept will be something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sr-vxVaY_M Except that instead of rich people dining, we'd have awesome people building the Omni or doing their awesome project. What we have in mind, is very concrete activities that show that we are building the Omni for the greater good. The camera would stop in front of the person absorbed in their activity and they would be like "hey! I'm repairing this so that it's safe for kids to use!" or "hey! I'm making a shelf so we can do this or that! *Sudoer, you who are reading this now:* in order to pull this video off, we need your participation! Give me a sign if you're in! ======================= We also need to figure out what activities sudo-ers would be doing inside sudo. Here are my suggestions: - *Work on actual construction projects*, or moving stuff. It's an opportunity to work on the space! Anything you had planned in this vein could happen on october 5th! Do let me know what you have in mind, and we'll figure out in more detail what to do. The more people will be in the space working on stuff, even just putting up signs or making the space look more pretty, the better. - Work on cool sudo projects! *sudo mesh*, but then it would need to be somewhat visual. Working on the weird antennas or the pico stations... I would love it if some of you mesh people had suggestions of what you'd be doing and what the person who would be asked what they're doing would answer in a concise way. *Oakland Wiki*, if the Oakland wiki peeps are down! *The robot*, because it's fun. We'd need to have a fun and convincing thing to say about it: "I'm programming the robot so that people can (...) ?" Jake, any suggestion - "kill all the humans" excluded :) ? *Francisco* working on vinegar, or cooking, or walking in with vegetables form the market to cook something? Feel free to suggest other things! The general idea, I think, is to suggest that we're all about a radical commoning of resources, and do things that benefit the greater community in an evident way. Write to me if you have ideas on how you could participate in this! Thank you! Noémie -- Noémie Serfaty 108 rue du Faubourg du Temple 75011 Paris Tel: 06 27 76 88 84 Tel: 01 71 50 51 82 noemieserfaty(a)gmail.com

11 years, 7 months

[Critical] Need Potential Delegates for Omni Collective Participation

by Matthew Senate

Hey all, FYI - I've BCC'd you if you are a current sudo room member. Our current acting delegates to the Omni Oakland Collective, Yardena and Jenny, need serious relief. *PLEASE RESPOND IF YOU ARE CAPABLE OF ACTING AS A SUDO ROOM DELEGATE IN THE NEAR TERM. WE NEED YOU.* Patrick Xu has stepped up to act as the delegate for the next two Omni Meetings 9/25 and 10/2. We need more folks who can prepare to act as delegates in an on-going basis, as well as folks to act as delegate in the very near term on: 10/9 10/16 10/23

11 years, 7 months

Fwd: [Mesh] Sudo Mesh meeting tonight and summer's end update!

by Matthew Senate

Folks, Please rejoice in this amazing update by Jenny Ryan on the progress of the Sudo Mesh project launching the People's Open Network: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jenny Ryan <tunabananas(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:05 PM Subject: [Mesh] Sudo Mesh meeting tonight and summer's end update! To: "mesh(a)lists.sudoroom.org" <mesh(a)lists.sudoroom.org> 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 ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` _______________________________________________ mesh mailing list mesh(a)lists.sudoroom.org https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/mesh

11 years, 7 months

Update Member Database

by Matthew Senate

Need contact information (namely email) for the following new members: TJ Mosely Timothy Sean Adam aka halfnhalv4 Please private message me with the address or CC me with an intro. Are there other new members who are not in our member database? Thanks! // Matt

11 years, 7 months

list of lights and their wattages at The Omni

by Jake

I think it's important that everybody understand that electricity is sold in kilowatt-hours. This means that even a maximum-power electrical appliance like a toaster-oven used to toast food uses less power than a single ordinary lightbulb left on all the time: toaster oven: 1500 watts, used 30 minutes per day (0.5 hours) = 0.75 KW/H (12.75 cents per day, $3.89 per month) 60 watt lightbulb left on: 60 watts, 24 hours per day = 1.44 KW/H (24.48 cents per day, $7.47 per month) the big ovens might be 3000 watts, maybe 5000 watts, but you see my point. electric water heaters are definitely something, because they are maybe 4000 watts and are on for a total of a couple of hours per day possibly. we do not need to worry about anything that is only on for a short period of time, such as tools or ovens. We do need to worry about LIGHTS LEFT ON. Anything left on all the time will cost us money. Here is a list of all the lights I encountered on a walk around the Omni. lights 17x f96t12 (1275W) downstairs (all on, 2 people) 10x f40cw (400W) basement lawlibrary (on, no people) 1x ccfl (14W) southeast lower stairwell (good for safety) 12x6 25W (1800W) chandelier bulbs in ballroom (off) 2x F96T12 (150W) + 23W ccfl + 15W ccfl near entrance (CCFLs were off) 1x ccfl (23W) outside entrance (was off) 17+18x F40CW (1400W) barroom (all off) 2x 23W ccfl (46W) kitchen (always on) 3x 96W refrigerators, (287W) mostly empty (all plugged in) bulb rope light on floor, (50W) (always on) 1x ccfl (23W), ADA bathroom, (always on) 1x ccfl (23W), sudo bathroom, (always on) 2x6x F96T12 (900W) in sudoroom & CCL (on at night when open) 1x ccfl (23W), stage overhead light to see by (was on) 5x23W ccfl + 5x75W bulb (490W) stage real lights (were off) 1x ccfl (19W), stageside room (was on) 108W fan and 23W ccfl (131W) room above stageside (both on) bulb xmas lights (20W), above stageside (on, good for safety) sudoroom & CCL servers and internet equipment - 150W perhaps? john&mary ??? i turned off the lights in the basement "law library" room, there was no one there. I turned off the fan and light in the above stageside room. That saved us 531 watts, or $66.08 per month (always on versus never on) all the remaining stuff that was on and I didn't turn off adds up to: 1275 + 14 + 150 + 46 + 287 + 50 + 23 + 23 + 900 + 23 + 19 + 20 + 150 = 2980 watts, which if left on 24/7 would be 2181.36 KW-H or $370.83 per month. That is based on a rate of 17 cents per kilowatt-hour. PG&E charges rates based on Tiers: http://www.pge.com/en/myhome/saveenergymoney/plans/tiers/index.page It looks like if we use more than the average amount of electricity (based on the chart they show on that page) our average energy rate might be closer to 25 cents per kilowatt-hour bringing the above count to $545.34 we don't know what John and Mary are using upstairs, and we haven't added in any other uses of power (such as ventilation fans) so i don't know why our bill was $900 last month. Maybe the 1800W chandeliers were on a lot? Maybe i'm wrong about the chandelier bulbs being 25W and they're 40W each? Most likely, i'm guessing our energy usage is so far above "average" that we are mostly in Tier 4, putting our electric rate closer to 32 cents per KW-H. If that's the case, we should consider switching to Time Of Use: http://www.pge.com/en/myhome/saveenergymoney/plans/tou/index.page Either way, we should save energy by turning off the fucking lights when we're not using them. -jake

11 years, 7 months

PG&E and questions about power (electrical!).

by niki

Hey y'all. You may or may not be aware but since we have moved in, our monthly PG&E bill has gone from $481 to close to $900. I'm guessing it's just going to continue to climb. I realize that we're using a lot more electricity than when John and Mary were living there but I want us to please be mindful of the expense!! Does anyone have thoughts as to what could be contributing to such an increase? Is it simply having more lights on, more often? Also - please turn off lights when you are not using them. I often see lights left on around the building and it would be great if we could all get in the habit on turning lights off when we leave a room! xo N

11 years, 7 months

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