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Created page with "Sudomesh meeting - 28 feb 2017 = attendees = * jnny - working on outreach, wants to work on cleaning up the wiki * juul - working on the live node map * shaene - tourist here..."

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Sudomesh meeting - 28 feb 2017

= attendees =
* jnny - working on outreach, wants to work on cleaning up the wiki
* juul - working on the live node map
* shaene - tourist here from familab in florida, has NFC tag implents
* Will - community organizing & getting folks excited
* Jorrit - works on a software-defined mesh playground called babeld-lab, and working on noob-tutorial for people's open network
* jehan - working on a new and improved dashboard for our firmware, with status of mesh and what's plugged in
* arthur - somewhat new. not quite sure how to help out. come be a floater for the upcoming workshop.
* daniel - been with sudomesh from about a year after it started. excited about project. helps out here and there.
* steven - a friend of his who couldn't be here found out about it.
* grant - working on the babeld lab with jorrit
* lesley - working on the dashboard w/ jehan
* andrew - working on random stuff. made a flyer and helps to organize workshop. hacks on router stuff.
* hillary - member of sudo room and generally supports what's going on - does computer in a box education for kids where they take apart and put back together

= agenda =
== updates ==
babeld lab:
* Have a two-node virtual babeld mesh using linux network namespaces (like docker)
* grant is expanding to make it work with an arbirary number of nodes

Inventory restock:
* Incoming ~100 Western Digital My Net N600 routers at $16 a pop
* Incoming 10 NanoBridge M5 25 dBi version (very long range. good for 20+ km links) at $54 (retail price $110)
** Product replaced by LiteBeam M5 23 dBi version which retails for $46 but isn't yet supported by OpenWRT (62.5% less range)
** Closest current OpenWRT supported product is NanoBeam M5 19 dBi, so 4 dBi less which is 2.5 times less range
* We still need a stock of NanoStation M5 and M2 (or NanoStation M5/M2 Loco but never buy those used as older models have a hardware bug)
** NanoStation is still $79 and no cheaper replacement in sight. Very useful for window installation.

Mesh maps:
* LibreMap: No longer maintained
* NodeShot: No longer maintained and couldn't find info on how to use it
* NodeWatcher: Should be possible to run in "map only" mode. Tried installing but ran into bugs. Will report to wlan slovenja devs.
* Started building a simple map: https://github.com/sudomesh/peoples-map
** So far very simple client side code only
** Will check node status by consulting exit node's babeld (version 0.0.0 - unmappable list)
** Will get addresses from our meshnode database (version 0.0.1 - node locations and online status)
** Will get connections by asking individual nodes for their babeld output using ubus-http (version 1.0.0 - maps node to node connections)
*** Will need to save data in a DB and have re-query all nodes every n minutes
*** Need to add a "info only" user to the ACL on all nodes

Nonprofit Entity Structure
* Omni's old nonprofit (501c3) entity is being phased out - however, we could take it over, amend the activities slightly

Breakout Groups
* messaging for the workshop - jorrit, andy, will, jenny, ?
* frontend dashboard hacking - jehan, leslie, juul
* mapping / monitoring
* intro / questions toward creating an intro guide

https://pad.riseup.net/p/byoi

= todo =

* Switch over to hurricane electric
** Set up old CCL server with Debian Jessie and RAID 1
* Order more stickers
* Get examples of live router info for dashboard (jehan and juul)
* Set up netbooks with ubiquiti nodes on poles for live demo
* Print and laminate RJ45 wiring diagrams (or design and order stickers)
* Finalize wording for flyer/poster
* Organize incoming my net n600 routers
* Hack on introductory guide
* Hack on software projects
** The mesh experimenters setup
** The new dashboard
** The mesh monitor map
* Test range of My Net N600 with $14 chinese panel antenna
* Schedule a board meeting to decide on entity structure

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Tunabananas: Created page with "Sudomesh meeting - 28 feb 2017 = attendees = * jnny - working on outreach, wants to work on cleaning up the wiki * juul - working on the live node map * shaene - tourist here..."