View source for Mesh/5 December 2013

=Attendees=
*Marc, Deekoo, Jeremy, Jenny, JC, Ardeen, Daniel, Scott, David

=Updates=
*Marc: ~200 Meraki Sparkyboards [no cases, power adapters, or antennas] via a Noisebridge donation
**$2/each for antennas and PoE injectors, cases can be 3D printed or bought at dollar stores.
**Problem with the hardware watchdog rebooting every 5 minutes
*Deekoo submitted a security patch! and has a new contact in SF who wants to experiment with long-distance links
*Jeremy talked to Arizmendi; working on the wiki [Walkthrough] as well as adding QoS apps to Mesh/Firmware
*Jenny has been doing a deep dive on research re: current active mesh networks / community wireless networks 
*JC has been hacking on the new boards donated to Noisebridge! and wants to set up nodes around NB/the Mission
**https://noisebridge.net/Sparky
**https://noisebridge.net/RB133
**Helping to run a remote 31C3 (Chaos Communications Congress) conference at Noisebridge and wants to run a wireless/mesh
**Hacker challenge at the top of the Noisebridge stairs - outdoor AP with a serial cable hanging out
*Daniel offers potential for a storage unit of several RAID controllers with 8 iTB hard disks
*Scott is up high in Piedmont! Volunteers to be part of the experimental test network
*David in S Berkeley, stoked to talk to his neighbors once the firmware is ready

=Notes=
*Oakland Public Library networks are open, we hope to connect the mesh to them
*QoS filtering runs into network neutrality issues

=Reportbacks=
*Deekoo: Goals w/ Sparky - Get it running in an emulator; experiment with kernal modules and investigate the watchdog; 

=Next Steps=
*Flashing party! Meet Saturday (12/7) at noon to flash with new firmware, then home to mount nodes & meet online!
*Set up exit node
*System for firmware updates

=Resources=
*Daniel has a Cisco contact network! could get us bulk cheap PoE injectors, possibly source code
*Unix Surplus for high-quality server supplies on the cheap

=Action Items=
*Scott to reach out to OTX West about hardware donations, and Hurricane Electric about bandwidth donations
*Marc to finish up firmware
*Jenny to write article
*Jenny to ping other folks to join us on Saturday

=Linkdump=
*http://www.seattlewireless.net/PeeringAgreement - FreeNetworks Peering Agreement
*Free Networks Directory: http://freenetworks.org/freenetworks-members-affiliates.shtml (pretty outdated)
*MetaMesh (Pittsburgh) - http://www.metamesh.org/vision.html
*Wireless Communities Directory (Personal Telco Project) - https://personaltelco.net/wiki/WirelessCommunities
*SoCal Free Network - http://www.socalfreenet.org/projects
*Wireless DB Project - http://www.nodedb.com/index.php 
*A Second Look At Citywide WiFi (Wall Street Journal) - http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB122840941903779747
**Investigating Earthlink
* Harbor freight 20 ft flagpole http://www.harborfreight.com/20-ft-telescoping-flag-pole-kit-95598.html