Mesh/14 August 2018

People's Open Network Weekly Meeting - 14 August 2018 7:30pm-9pm

• https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Safer_Space_Policy

Last Meeting Minutes: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/07_August_2018

Agenda

• Introductions and Meeting Roles (10 mins)
• Check in on previous action items (5 mins)
• Updates & Reportbacks (20 mins)
• Next Sunday (5 mins)
• Proposal X: (15 mins)
• Discussion Y: (15 mins)
• Discussion Z (15 mins)
• Action Items (5 mins)
• Breakout Groups

Introductions

Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Icebreaker Response; BRIEF Announcements

• Icebreaker question:
• null - they/them - saturday
• nanomonkey (scott) - thursday
• martin - he thursday
• grant -
• cassidy - someday
• selene - she/her - thursday, reporter from KALW
• marc - tomorrow question for next week (what was everyone's favorite day of the past week).
• jenny - she/her

Discussions

• discussion of outdoor routers & radios
• grant: would like to work on LibreMesh interoperability (https://libremesh.org/ )
  • marc: also want to add support for non-open firmwares, eg; stock ubiquiti
    • grant: already have a script that autoconfigures ubiquiti routers

This Sunday's Mount

• grant: wants to set up a rocket m5 (point-to-multipoint) on the roof of omni this sunday. airos or sudowrt or libremesh?
  • marc: prolly air OS if multiple clients connecting
• discussion of LibreMesh and annual community wireless events (BattleMesh, ISCW, etc)
• grant got the firmware build down to one minute!
  • marc: what kind of changes trigger full rebuild?
    • grant: not sure

Internet Archive Mount

• talked with Jonah @ dweb summit and he's down to work on the Archive tower mount this month!
• jenny: we need to talk to peef
• jenny: another note on that: I ran into liz who wants to be involved again
• ** talking to people around dweb summit realized there are another half dozen locations we need to go survey and mount
• grant we should
• see what frequencies we're allowed to use, if anything will interfere
• Edge Router?
• battery backup?
• Jenny will email Jonah and CC Grant, Marc, Lesley, Mai, Ben, others who've expressed interest

jenny note stash

• node mounts: Pam (north of Lake Merrit), b4bel4b, 5th ave marina, dragon&franki's (next to babelab), liberate 23rd ave / lolspace--> the village, scott's, tigermonkey
• Radical Networks conference in Berlin, Oct 19-21 - for cheap flights search flylevel.com or momondo.net or scott's cheap flights.com

Action Items

• Email Jonah & CC interested Archive mount folks [jenny]
• Make new video more visible (blog & social media posts) [jenny]
• Reply to Lib23rdAve [jenny]
• Discuss / distro reimbusements [jenny, accounting wg]

Breakout Groups

At the end of the meeting, break out into small groups to hack on or discuss specific topics.

Last Meeting Notes

• https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/7_August_2018

End of Meeting

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