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	==Notes==		==Notes==
	*Ham Radio Licenses allow for broadcasting up to 2.4Ghz		*Ham Radio Licenses allow for broadcasting up to 50 watt at 2.4Ghz
	**Free class to procure ham radio license in one day at Noisebridge March 17th		**Free class to procure ham radio license in one day at Noisebridge March 17th
	**Has to be amateur / not paid-for services		**Has to be amateur / not paid-for services

Tunabananas at 08:01, 8 February 2013

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	~~Thanks to all who came by tonight!~~

	~~Cross-posted to the sudo room wiki here: http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh~~

	==Attendees==		==Attendees==
	Alcides, Marc, Jenny, JC, David, George, Miguel		Alcides, Marc, Jenny, JC, David, George, Miguel

Tunabananas at 06:54, 8 February 2013

2013-02-08T06:54:17Z

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			Thanks to all who came by tonight!

			Cross-posted to the sudo room wiki here: http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh

	==Attendees==		==Attendees==
	Alcides, Marc, Jenny, JC, David, George, Miguel		Alcides, Marc, Jenny, JC, David, George, Miguel
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	**Can't be encrypted (What does that mean for HTTPS?)		**Can't be encrypted (What does that mean for HTTPS?)
	**Definitely an area that needs further research!		**Definitely an area that needs further research!
	*Downtown Berkeley WiFi		*Hook into Downtown Berkeley WiFi?
	*Hackerspace Darknets (accessible to other hackerspaces)		*Hackerspace Darknets (accessible to other hackerspaces)
	*CJDNS		*CJDNS
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	*Boats in the bay could receive long-distance comms, for instance		*Boats in the bay could receive long-distance comms, for instance

	*OpenBTS		*OpenBTS
	*MonkeyBrains as backhaul for a mesh network		*MonkeyBrains as backhaul for a mesh network
	*Burning Man Community / San Francisco dark		*Burning Man Community / San Francisco dark fiber opps

	*JC - mobile ad hoc mesh network		*JC - mobile ad hoc mesh network
	**CB Radio backpacks for berkeley protest peacekeepers as inspiration for mobile ad hoc networks		**CB Radio backpacks for berkeley protest peacekeepers as inspiration for mobile ad hoc networks
	**Starts with communication (voice, over data)		**Starts with communication (voice, over data)
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	*Peet's running on a mesh backbone?		*Peet's running on a mesh backbone?

	*[http://openmesh.com Open Mesh] - uses batman-adv, NG firmware		*[http://openmesh.com Open Mesh] - uses batman-adv, NG firmware
	*ALIX		*ALIX
	*AIS - boat radio communications		*AIS - boat radio communications
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	**Open call to hackerspaces for surplus routers / wifi devices		**Open call to hackerspaces for surplus routers / wifi devices
	**ANTAC wifi cable modems		**ANTAC wifi cable modems
	*Base repository of information		*Base repository of information
			**See for instance The Pyre: http://thepyre.org/wiki (talk to jenny)
	*Get a mesh node running at sudo room!		*Get a mesh node running at sudo room!
	*Field survey trip to visit existing nodes		*Field survey trip to visit existing nodes
	*Box in a Bag for activists		*Box in a Bag for activists

Tunabananas: Added Meeting Minutes

2013-02-08T06:40:53Z

Added Meeting Minutes

New page

==Attendees==
Alcides, Marc, Jenny, JC, David, George, Miguel

==Notes==
*Ham Radio Licenses allow for broadcasting up to 2.4Ghz
**Free class to procure ham radio license in one day at Noisebridge March 17th
**Has to be amateur / not paid-for services
**Can't be encrypted (What does that mean for HTTPS?)
**Definitely an area that needs further research!
*Downtown Berkeley WiFi
*Hackerspace Darknets (accessible to other hackerspaces)
*CJDNS
*Bounce a signal off the moon / other satellites
*Direct connect several nodes (Andrew's place/Vagabond Ballroom; Mark B's House, Adeline House, Sudo Room, Media Alliance, node in East Oakland)
*Need for directional antennas
**Should we make antennas?
**Lasers?
***10 mbps (RONJA)
***Not good in the rain

*Location triangulation

*Suggestion: East Bay Communications Resilience Group

*Software-defined radios
*Low-bandwidth radio receivers
*Boats in the bay could receive long-distance comms, for instance

*OpenBTS
*MonkeyBrains as backhaul for a mesh network
*Burning Man Community / San Francisco dark

*JC - mobile ad hoc mesh network
**CB Radio backpacks for berkeley protest peacekeepers as inspiration for mobile ad hoc networks
**Starts with communication (voice, over data)

*Solar power system for mesh box and mobile phone

*Pay phones as mesh nodes for anonymous hot-spotting

*Peet's running on a mesh backbone?

*[http://openmesh.com Open Mesh] - uses batman-adv, NG firmware
*ALIX
*AIS - boat radio communications
*Emergency Broadcast Band - airwaves set aside
*Cognitive Radio to detect currently broadcasting signals

*[http://www.accrc.org/ Alameda Country Computer Resource Center]

==Projects==
*Mobile ad hoc networks
**4GB of data to sync across the nodes
**Using git to update the nodes
**People moving around feeding the network
*[http://thepyre.org/wiki/Mycelia Mycelia] - geospatial mapping via decentralized databases for inventory management, project and skill matching (talk to marc juul and jenny if you want to work on this project!)
*[http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Router_Reuse Router Reuse Program] - Proposed sudo room project :D
*DC415 - DefCon mesh in SF

==Action Items==
*Inventory / Donations of hardware
**Open call to hackerspaces for surplus routers / wifi devices
**ANTAC wifi cable modems
*Base repository of information
*Get a mesh node running at sudo room!
*Field survey trip to visit existing nodes
*Box in a Bag for activists