Hi everyone!

I'm working with Judi from San Leandro to put together our first BACH [Bay Area Consortium of Hackerspaces] newsletter. We'd like to highlight the projects people are working on in various hackerspaces around the Bay Area. Please reply to this thread with a one-sentence description of something you've been working on at the space (feel free to add more details, but start with a sentence that summarizes so I don't have to ;) ).

I'll start: The Oakland mesh group just finished a successful crowdfunding campaign to bootstrap the first 100 nodes, consisting of low-cost routers and antennas to make point-to-point wifi connections across the East Bay.

Mesh networks are awesome because they don't depend on the existing centralized Internet Service Providers to function. Though they can be connected to the Internet as we know it now, a mesh provides a decentralized means of communication with our local community. We view mesh networks as a means of reconnecting to our neighbors, supporting local businesses, and enabling grassroots community collaboration. In the event of disaster or government censorship, an active mesh network is a resilient mode of communication and sharing of information. Learn more.

Thanks!

Jenny
http://jennyryan.net
http://thepyre.org
http://thevirtualcampfire.org
http://technomadic.tumblr.com

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"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
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