https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Mesh%2F31_July_2013Mesh/31 July 2013 - Revision history2026-04-04T18:04:30ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.37.2https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Mesh/31_July_2013&diff=5637&oldid=prevTunabananas: Uploaded Meeting Minutes2013-09-22T22:23:25Z<p>Uploaded Meeting Minutes</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>=Introductions=<br />
*Jacob (dad has worked on Broadband Plan), Jenny, Nadar, Ryan, Mitar, Paige, Doyan [siehjr@gmail.com] (tried to launch a project in Monrovia 7 years ago, focus on hardware)<br />
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=Notes=<br />
*Cost to store data<br />
*Avoid ownership and thus liability<br />
**Write in lack of ownership for state/market as well<br />
*Structure:<br />
**Administrative<br />
**Technical<br />
*How to address collaboration and cooperation with ISPs?<br />
**We can help by reaching communities that don't currently have access, but once we help them get it will be interested in subscribing to the ISPs<br />
*Monrovia project failed due to greed<br />
*Antitrust law for protection, supporting diversity in business models<br />
*Move toward local governments experimenting with new forms of public/private partnership<br />
*Cities can ally with local meshes to supercede the interests of major corporate players, can ally toward using public infrastructure<br />
*We could also build in our own fiber!<br />
*Three potential neighborhoods to initially deploy:<br />
**LOL/SOL<br />
**West Oakland<br />
**Berkeley Coops<br />
*Workshops and talks series <br />
*Public-people partnership as approach to municipal wifi<br />
**They have Access to lightpoles, buildings, shafts<br />
**Don't have access to homes/residencies.<br />
*Policy levels:<br />
**Spectrum<br />
**Antitrust<br />
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=Name Brainstorm=<br />
*Freeband<br />
*Bandgang<br />
*WiFiGang<br />
*WiFree+<br />
*WyFy<br />
*Wycelium <br />
*Mycelium [org name]<br />
*Oakland Wireless Network [OWN]<br />
*WiON+<br />
*ViOWN<br />
*WeOWN<br />
*AlwaysON<br />
*OaklandOWN [Oakland Open Wireless Network]<br />
*Zonal Open Wireless Network [ZOWN]<br />
*OaklandOWNs [Oakland Open Wireless Networks]<br />
*Network Substrate<br />
*Oakland Matrix [OM]<br />
*Oakland Wireless Matrix<br />
*People's Wireless Network [PWN]* #<br />
*People's Open Wireless Network [POWN#] <br />
*Webility<br />
*Wibility<br />
*Ubility<br />
*Youbility<br />
*WeFi+<br />
*Localia<br />
*Wicalia<br />
*wearethenetwork.org<br />
*weareinternet<br />
*wearethe.net<br />
*wefi.net<br />
*People's Local Area Network [PLAN] - "Everyone needs a PLAN!"<br />
*pla.net<br />
*co.fi<br />
*vi.fi<br />
*Community Open Wireless Network (CoOWN)<br />
*Oakland Community Open Resiliency Network (OCORN)<br />
*Community Wireless Network (CoWN)<br />
*Community Local Open Wireless Network (CLOWN)<br />
*Connecting Local Oakland Wireless Networks (CLOWNs)<br />
*bandgang.net<br />
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=Resources=<br />
*http://www.openspectrum.eu<br />
*http://www.laquadrature.net/</div>Tunabananas