Mesh/29 Aug 2017

Peoples Open Meeting - 29 Aug 2017

attendees

• marc/juul
• sierk (will be back next week),
• dave (from irc) has a house in berkeley
• jorrit: i haven't done much lately, been destracted. am interested in the upcoming workshop which is in three weeks. willing to tell new people about the project
• joseph: pretty new to this so here to just learn
• noffle: software hacker, peer to peer
• arclinea: had two routes i was gonna put up at my house but my house got sold and i had to move. no longer live in oakland. works on decentralized stuff
• mario - gardenmesh, interested in collaborations between groups in the building
• jehan: i was in canada. i'm working for a project to let other routers pay each other based on babel
• grant: working on hardware stuff recently, and node mounting
• scott: recently been researching how to power the disaster radios with solar and battery charging and stuff and printing circuit boards
• jenny: i work on not firmware but all the other bits. currently working on the 501c3 application and sunday afternoon node mounts
• bullit: i'm bullit. i do what i want!
• blake
• eve

updates

• marc: yesterday i met with Mei Lin Fung, director of Peoples Centered Internet - founded by her and Vint Cerf. Similar goals to us, but no specific implementations - just gathering people and money together to make a more affordable, accessible internet. Been around about 3 years, very well-connected. She reached out to Marc - was present at the Mozilla panel. Very interested in DisasterRadio, wants to connect us to sources of funding
• marc: DisasterRadio had issues with memory leak - but Grant conquered it!
  • grant: after 3 nights of hacking on it. Issue was firmware was outdated. was a bug in the nodemcu firmware exacerbated by the tcp/ip websocket.
    • marc: in the meantime, tried a bunch of different things on the ESPs. ended up with the arduino framework for esp286 has a nice firmware that supports web sockets. uploaded a tiny web app, loaded very quickly. programmed an arduino to become an spi client, connected an arduino to an esp, communicated at 2B/s (about 8x faster than expected). we have everything we need. but good that we can use nodemcu when we want to. hoping to get it working tonight.
      • grant: check out platform.io

byoi workshop

• jorrit: things to show for next BYOI workshop (sep 23): DisasterRadio prototype. last time we had a couple of stations, preceded by some short talks (what/why/how). last time we had booths for flashing nodes, gardenmesh, radio wave propagation, crimping, node flashing.
  • jehan: will have althea(?) set up
    • other ideas: disasterradio, node flashing, talk on how the internet works, project gardenmesh data, 5 minutes per station/project
      • github repo: sudomesh/propaganda
• sierk: talked to fnb and they're down to bring the bike-powered smoothie blender. donations for FNB.
• jorrit: liked hilary's thing last time, "Q and not A"
• marc: would like to give a slightly longer talk than last time, clarify misconceptions for new folks. would like to float next time (no station) and do some videorecording
• sierk: take photos of the whiteboard of questions next time. also video the whole thing. also the node mounts.

Roles:

• catering: scott & sierk
• schedule: jehan
• flyer: sierk (update) & jenny (print)
• videography: marc & eve

gardenmesh

• mario: two facilities that are open to hosting prototypes, also the isabel folks were open to us putting a node on their roof in treasure island

sunday node mount

• continue at hearth and tigermonkey
• next mount - perhaps at Isabel on Treasure Island?
• larry (last week) had lots of good comments/advice - inquired about insurance. grant will try to summarize and send to the list.

website

• folks who want to work on it: grant, bullit, sierk, jenny

breakout groups

• new folks: jorrit / grant
• outreach / website

510(c)(3) application

• jenny: Close to finished. Maybe another 2 hours of work to complete it. We need a formal board meeting or written consent to get the bylaws passed.

DisasterRadio

• start weekly hack nights on Monday evenings - 1st meeting
• proposal, design document, circuitboard layout, etc

grants upcoming

• "Like" the gardenmesh project on the NationalGeographic site
• DisasterRadio on Monday nights, 1st meeting on this coming monday at 7pm
• GDoc for DisasterRadio grant: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ffyuvbMw-BGBdn0nAPmAZGoBUruDMDT-DvUiUeGVVUo/edit?usp=sharing
• GDoc for Sudo Mesh grant:

ssb

• meeting sep. 7th (thursday) with dominictar and other ssb folks to discuss collaborating on the grant
• mesh folks participating: noffle, jorrit, grant, scott, eve, sierk

action items

• flyer - sierk/jenny
• stickers - jenny
• order new 5GHz nodes (jenny/marc)