Tunabananas: Uploaded 12/26 hacknight notes

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Uploaded 12/26 hacknight notes

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December 26th Hacknight

=Attendees=
*MaxB, Jeremy, Jenny, Marc, Deekoo, Pete Forsyth

=Updates=
*Jenny and Pete brainstormed some intro flyers last week - Jenny will work on "elevator pitch" / & mission/vision today
**MeshThePlanet.Org: Planet blog aggregator, calendar, directory/map [https://github.com/libremap], resources [legal, technical, graphical, historical, etc], software tools, forum?
*Jeremy went through the video interviews - they look great! He and Daniel have been going through and marking good segments
*Marc is debugging the last bits of the firmware & node configurator ( see this email: https://lists.sudoroom.org/pipermail/mesh/2013-December/000672.html ). Upgraded Sudo Room's internet with two new access points. Got the spectrum analyzer working on our firmware (see below)
**Portable spectrum analyzer: Mac G4 battery to power the Bullet M5, mounted on a pole and hooked up to a GPS, running the stock AirOS spectrum analyzer software.
*MaxB tackling web admin bug, going to write some scripts for more seamlessly incorporating firmware updates onto the build server
*Deekoo has been barreling through the build scripts for OpenWRT - got it to download a build root in a secure, but not yet audit-able fashion - still security holes all the way down \o/

=ToDos Tonight=
*MaxB on web admin bug [done]
*MaxB writing scripts [done]
*Jenny making sudomesh gravatar [done]
*Jenny on mission/vision & elevator pitch & blog posts [not done]
*Juul squishing bugs [partially done]
*Deekoo banging on the build scripts [presumedly done]

=Notes=
*Bugs were squished. Marc knocked off 4/5 off his ToDos from the email (linked above).
*Jenny taught Pete git, and meanwhile made a sudomesh gravatar: http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/787ec18db5a9c270fa420c8a0c49cdde.png
*Pete taught Jenny how to common our media, uploading WNDW to wikimedia commons & wikisource and converting it to markdown (see below).
*Will we deploy any nodes before the New Year? To be continued...

=Gratuitous Link Dump=
*Pete uploaded the 3rd edition of Wireless Networking in the Developing World here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wireless_Networking_in_the_Developing_World,_Third_Edition.pdf
and then we realized Matt had already done this:
*https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wireless_Networking_in_the_Developing_World
*and also on Github: https://github.com/wrought/wireless-networking-in-the-developing-world/tree/master
*Jenny's thesis, to go on WikiSource! - http://thevirtualcampfire.org
*Network Startup Resource Center - http://nsrc.org/
*Secure peer-to-peer networking - lots of great documentation! - https://gnunet.org & https://gnunet.org/bibliography
*The Oakland CORE training for emergency preparedness has morphed into this: http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/OFD/s/EmergencyPreparedness/LearnLeadLift/index.htm
*Also this: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/millions-of-dogecoins-stolen-in-apparent-heist
*Video of our presentation at SFSU: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8-eLJ4lDLg&feature=youtu.be
*Article on Village Telco & the Mesh Potato: http://ecopreneurist.com/2013/12/23/green-business-ideas-mesh-network-telephone-internet-company/

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