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Welcome to the Oakland Mesh Meeting: Freedom Edition.

... liberating ourselves from the telecoms since January 2013!

= Attendees =
* Max B, Juul, Jenny, Jordan, Mitar, Adrian

= Announcements =
* Crowdfunding campaign is doing great with 26 days remaining: $2,053.00 (WePay), $56.92 (BitCoin)
* Juul has started putting together bylaws for 501c3 status! - https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Bylaws
* International Community Wireless Summit in Berlin Oct. 2-4: http://2013.wirelesssummit.org/
** Jenny submitted a workshop proposal and applied for travel funding

= Report-backs =
* Mitar from wlan-slovenia:
** Must be strategic and have many nodes
** Abundance of fiber / connectivity
** Major difficulty was getting beyond the techies and reaching the masses
** Primary selling point was to open wireless networks and choosing how much of one's bandwidth they can share, enabling connectivity across the whole city.
** Protected by connecting through a VPN tunnel to central servers.
** Get folks to deploy their own nodes - so they don't think of the mesh as a service provided, but rather a DIY endeavor
** Lead by example, the village / neighborhood will follow
** Point of centralization is the two guys with root access to the server who administer the nodes, firmware upgrades, etc (plz correct if incorrect)
** Focus on scalability
** Made a simple GUI for indicating router and getting an image instantly created for it

= Notes =
* Brainstorm on name for the mesh!
** COM - Cutting Out the Middleman
** OWN - Oakland Wireless Network
** Mitar recommends hacing the name by unaffiliated with the hackerspace and non-geographically-specific
* Tax Status:
** 501(c)4 - non-tax-deductible
** 501(c)3 - can't do party politics (but can be political? - EFF is a 501(c)3!)
* Social pressure to allocate bandwidth to the mesh, sharing connectivity
* Adrian suggests, owning the first 100 nodes, with gradual replacement as the network grows to a full-on decentralized model
* Our model as a 501c3 is to serve as a facilitator for the mesh.

= Old Action Items =
* Add your potential node to the map! - http://meshmap.sudoroom.org (we now have 23 potential nodes. keep em comin!)
* Get batman-adv running at Hearth node, mesh with LiveLabs node
* Find some tall rooftops for Adrian to test TDMA point-to-multipoint links
* Research 501(c)x statuses: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Tax_Structure_Research - Marc did.

= New Action Items =
* Reach out to the Berkeley folks to aim to reach the Internet Archive Richmond node (jenny)
* Blog post on our setup of the first two nodes and describing the hardware we received (jenny)
* Let's make a flier! Who can help? (jenny will start a thread on the list)
* Next reportback on an active mesh - Jenny on OTI/Commotion
* Research resilient ethernet cable (Adrian?)
** Tune the OpenWRT settings on the new nodes for RTS / CTS and ACK timing
* Name brainstorm! Add to the "Naming" page here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Naming
* Website (contingent on name)
* Splash page design

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Tunabananas: Uploaded Meeting Minutes