View source for Mesh/31 July 2013

=Introductions=
*Jacob (dad has worked on Broadband Plan), Jenny, Nadar, Ryan, Mitar, Paige, Doyan [siehjr@gmail.com] (tried to launch a project in Monrovia 7 years ago, focus on hardware)

=Notes=
*Cost to store data
*Avoid ownership and thus liability
**Write in lack of ownership for state/market as well
*Structure:
**Administrative
**Technical
*How to address collaboration and cooperation with ISPs?
**We can help by reaching communities that don't currently have access, but once we help them get it will be interested in subscribing to the ISPs
*Monrovia project failed due to greed
*Antitrust law for protection, supporting diversity in business models
*Move toward local governments experimenting with new forms of public/private partnership
*Cities can ally with local meshes to supercede the interests of major corporate players, can ally toward using public infrastructure
*We could also build in our own fiber!
*Three potential neighborhoods to initially deploy:
**LOL/SOL
**West Oakland
**Berkeley Coops
*Workshops and talks series 
*Public-people partnership as approach to municipal wifi
**They have Access to lightpoles, buildings, shafts
**Don't have access to homes/residencies.
*Policy levels:
**Spectrum
**Antitrust

=Name Brainstorm=
*Freeband
*Bandgang
*WiFiGang
*WiFree+
*WyFy
*Wycelium 
*Mycelium [org name]
*Oakland Wireless Network [OWN]
*WiON+
*ViOWN
*WeOWN
*AlwaysON
*OaklandOWN [Oakland Open Wireless Network]
*Zonal Open Wireless Network [ZOWN]
*OaklandOWNs [Oakland Open Wireless Networks]
*Network Substrate
*Oakland Matrix [OM]
*Oakland Wireless Matrix
*People's Wireless Network [PWN]*  #
*People's Open Wireless Network [POWN#] 
*Webility
*Wibility
*Ubility
*Youbility
*WeFi+
*Localia
*Wicalia
*wearethenetwork.org
*weareinternet
*wearethe.net
*wefi.net
*People's Local Area Network [PLAN] - "Everyone needs a PLAN!"
*pla.net
*co.fi
*vi.fi
*Community Open Wireless Network (CoOWN)
*Oakland Community Open Resiliency Network (OCORN)
*Community Wireless Network (CoWN)
*Community Local Open Wireless Network (CLOWN)
*Connecting Local Oakland Wireless Networks (CLOWNs)
*bandgang.net

=Resources=
*http://www.openspectrum.eu
*http://www.laquadrature.net/