Mesh/MTP2018

Mesh the Planet! 2018 Unconference

As a followup to the Decentralized Web Summit taking place July 31 - August 3rd, members of Sudo Mesh will be hosting an unconference to bring together the decentralized internets community in the shared spirit of meshing the planet!

Logistics

• What: An informal unconference / hackathon around building and deploying the decentralized web
• When: Aug 4th & 5th, 12-6pm
• Where: Sudo Room and/or the ballroom, located in the Omni Commons @ 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland, CA
  • Roughly half a mile north of the MacArthur BART station, ~20mins from San Francisco

Roles

• Front desk -
• Facilitation -
• Food - Scott/nanomonkey,
• Setup - Jenny,
• Cleanup - Jenny,

Documentation

• Collaborative session notes taken at https://peoplesopen.net/pad/p/SESSION__NAME
• Notes posted to this wiki in the corresponding agenda lines below
• Livestream for remote participation?

Material Resources

See Aspiration Tech's Materials Shopping List

• 3" x 5" un-ruled stickie notes, 1 pad per about 5 participants (Jenny will buy)
• Fine point Sharpie markers (Jenny will buy)
• 1/4" color dots for voting (in office)
• Movable walls! (in ballroom)
• Infinity coffee, snacks, and hydrating beverages
• Tables and chairs
• Power strips
• External monitors
• Mesh testbeds - Sudo Mesh, Toronto Mesh, others?
• Swag table - buttons, stickers, pins, zines, tshirts etc!

Agenda

Saturday, Aug 4th

12-1pm: Introductions and lunch

Circle up, intrs

1-2pm: Agenda-setting

We'll follow an "open space" model for collaborative agenda-setting, following guidelines outlined by Aspiration Tech.

2-3pm: Breakout Sessions I

• MTP2018/Sample Session Title

3-4pm: Breakout Sessions II

• MTP2018/Sample Session Title

4-5pm: Breakout Sessions III

• MTP2018/Sample Session Title

5-6pm: Breakout Sessions IV

• MTP2018/Sample Session Title

Evening funtimes

• Food? Karaoke? Dance party??

Sunday, Aug 5th

1-6pm: HACKATHON

Deploying services live to People's Open Network!

• We'll have a stack of Home Nodes (WD MyNet routers) and NAS devices and can spend the day deploying various services and building our own internet!

Inspiration

• Aspiration Tech has a great wiki on facilitation for rad unconferences - check out their Session Design Guidelines, Agenda Guidelines, and Agenda Hacking,