Mesh/25 July 2013

Agenda

• Introductions
• Update on crowdfunding campaign [1]
• What to spend money on
• Overview of the Mesh as it stands!
• Firmware progress
• Community Outreach
• Name Brainstorm

Attendees

• Marc, Chris J, Jacob, Ryan, MaxB, Jenny, Paige, Olaf + others

Marc - decentralization, citizen science, sysadmin

Max - Free internet! Free networks.

Olaf: Cryptocurrency, research, etc; Coinbase; Reading up on tunneling

Jenny – Education and community outreach; Anthropology and documentation

Chris J – Web stuff, splash pages, interfaces; OpenWRT experienced; community tech enthusiast

Jacob - community outreach

Aaron - Outreach and alliances; policy work

• All would love to learn how to flash shit and do things on the ground.

Paige - Learning hardware, community education and outreach

Doug - firmware, implementations of the environment, webwork [software dev, web tech]; software dev, post nexus; free wifi enthusiast

Mitch - Likes to code!

Mitar - Nodewatcher; python/django-based application

Tom - abandoned hardware

Ryan - Graphic designer

Crowdfunding Campaign

• We're $50 short of our crowd funding goal!
• UPDATE: We hit our goal of 3k! See Inventory and Purchases for details
• $2250.00 to the routers

→ Built a mesh network in Uganda

What to spend money on

• We have a bunch of street level nodes and a number of pt->pt and pt->multi-pt backbone links
• Cables and housing, etc.
• Outdoor Ethernet Cable – Shielded
• Outdoor Ethernet Plugs

Overview of the Mesh

• The wiki is well documented

City – coalition-ing

• If we depend on their interests, they will shut us down
• They can't shut us down

Firmware

Firmware: Max B, Marc J, and Douglas

• Quality of Service
• 3+ SSIDs
• Traffic and bandwidth shaping

Name Brainstorm

• https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Naming
• Should we get high and try to decide? Maybe not...
• Is there an advantage to having a separate "network" name and a "group" name
• Wycelium.net
• PeoplesWifi.org

Notes

• Pay for the nodes
• Tunneling setup for VPN protection
• We need a coalition of lawyers!
• Firmware – to change the ssid etc – chris j
• Points – sobdraken
• There's a lot of electromagnetic noise!
• Van-eck phreaking - pointing an antenna at a CTR screen, you can reconsturct it from far away
• Can see what people are watching from the same signal on the tv via power draw
• filter behind the meter that only lets 60 cycles through
• We own the gateways between our houses! I will install this to do this - it is open hardware, with only 16Hz of data
• A smartgrid would tell you to turn off this or that when the energy grid is overwhelmed

Local Net

• Tidepools Map
• Internet Archive
• Oakland Wiki
• Local Chat
  • nodejs app for chat

Mitar's Slovenia Repo

https://github.com/wlanslovenija/

Community Outreach

• https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Oakland
• There's an awesome list of community organizations:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ao_Q7DQvNFT-dEdhZUJaQ3dDY2plMjMxR3BNNmJuRlE#gid=0

If you really want to be a part of the community outreach team you could try and get in contact with some of the organizations on that list!

Next Meeting

• Community Outreach & Policy Strategy: Wednesday, July 31, 8:30-10pm at sudo room
• Hack Night: Flashing, firmware dev: Thursday, August 1, 8:30-10pm at sudo room