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July 11th Meeting Minutes

= Agenda =
*Update on crowdfunding campaign [https://www.wepay.com/donations/oakland-community-mesh-network]
*Report-back on existing mesh: Jenny on OTI's Commotion project
*Firmware overview
*Name brainstorm! [https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Naming]
**Set tentative deadline? Three weeks?

=Attendees=
*Marc, Mikey, Nader, Jenny, Miguel, Jacob, Mitar, MaxB

=Announcements=
*We now have $2,203.00 from the WePay, and still around 0.7 Bitcoins (about $70 depending on the date)

=Report-Back=
*OTI's Commotion Project is currently being tested in Red Hook, Brooklyn and Detroit (3 different community meshes) - https://commotionwireless.net/
*[1] http://ulysses.detroitfuturelab.org/, [2] http://www.our-morningside.com/, [3] http://ms-mesh.org/

=What we're doing=
*Mesh the east bay! (at least to start with....)
*Batman-adv firmware at least for first deployment
*Planning on getting bandwith donations in order to serve the internet to hosts.
*Free to the "consumer"
*Business ideas - local businesses could put small ads on splash page
*VPN tunnels mean IPs could be hidden
*TOR exit node? Limits liability

=Today I learned=
*https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned
*It would be nice to hold one on mesh networking
*Introducing mesh to the public

=Firmware Stuff=
*New Page: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware
*Firmware brainstorm: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware
**Mesh, Public, Private
**Bandwidth shaping
**Remote administration (if allowed)
**Web admin interface
***Change private SSID
***Status of node
***Sharing allocation
**Report/status
**Local services

=How to Pitch to Community=
*Opening up / sharing your wifi for neighbors to use
*Why paying twice, at home and when on move?

=Naming=
*For 10$ you could vote on a name!
*should it be independent of organization, geography, and hacker space?
*SSIDEAL; Route-Around
*Need to determine our organizational structure - non-organizationally-linked neutral name

=Berkeley Co-op Folks=
*Would like first to mesh the houses
*Would also dig potentially creating the link between houses and the Internet Archive link in Richmond

=Technological Stuffs=
*VPN in kernel space: https://github.com/wlanslovenija/tunneldigger

=Misc Notes=
*Newer Ubiquiti firmware
*CJDNS - https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns
*VPN tunnels for directing mesh traffic
*Look up legal liability w/ regards to traffic crossing "our" VPN
*One VPN connection is enough for a largeish network
*"Please choose the legal regime for your traffic"
*cooperation between networks (sharing VPNs, group buys, ...)
*Become a reseller, or make our own hardware

=OTI network (Commotion)=
* Redhood Brooklyn + Detroit
* useful in New York - Sandy
* Tidepools http://tidepools.co/
* now concentrating in Detroit
* small mesh networks, 8-9 nodes
* Open??? networks (GSM)
* inflatable towers for GSM - http://openbts.org/

=Action Items=
*Tor

=Post-Meeting Discussion Groups=
*wlan-slovenia & VPN etc;

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