Folks,

Please rejoice in this amazing update by Jenny Ryan on the progress of the Sudo Mesh project launching the People's Open Network:

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From: Jenny Ryan <tunabananas@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:05 PM
Subject: [Mesh] Sudo Mesh meeting tonight and summer's end update!
To: "mesh@lists.sudoroom.org" <mesh@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 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
* MaxB created sudowrt-firmware-images for temporary storage of firmware builds
* Matt added a patch to sudowrt-firmware
* Alex and MaxB have been fixing our fork of tunneldigger
* MaxB fixed sudowrt-packages
* Juul updated ubi-flasher
* Juul added fixes to meshnode-database
* Matt created svg-animations for mesh presentations

Wiki
* Tunabananas created Mesh/Flyers and uploaded Paige's flyers
* ChrisJ updated Mesh/Monitoring and created Mesh/Icinga
* Matt added instructions to Mesh/Firmware/Flash
* Jul added to Mesh/Hardware Support
* GMeader created the page Mesh/San Francisco and added to Mesh/Marketing
* MaxB added sticker images to Mesh/Stickers
* ChrisJ created Mesh/Sensu
* Tunabananas added recent research on broadband access in Oakland to Mesh/Oakland
* Tunabananas added some months worth of meeting minutes to Mesh/Minutes
* Jwentwistle added a bunch of documentation to Mesh/BATMAN-adv
* Jwentwistle and Tunabananas cleaned up the main Mesh page!
* Jwentwistle moved Mesh/MeshApps primarily to Mesh/Distributed Services
* Jwentwistle created and added slides to Mesh/Presentation
* Jwentwistle created Mesh/User Guide
* Jwentwistle created Mesh/Technical Overview
* Matt added some diagrams to Mesh/Diagrams
* Jwentwistle added bandwidth shaping details to Mesh/Firmware
* MaxB added some ideas for our box of crappy routers to Mesh/Inventory
* Tunabananas wrote a new post on Mesh/Blog
* Aep added to 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-digital-divide-mesh-net
* 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

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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."
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