Mesh/Communities

Key

+ = contact(s)

! = rooftop(s)

$ = interested in a space

Italics are relevant musings.

Locations

See also prospective node map

• West Oakland*!$
• San Antonio*!
• Adam's Point*!
• Ghost Town*!
• Piedmont*
• Oakland 5th Ave Marina*!

Schools

Resilient communication; internship opportunities; mentorship

• Laney College*$
• Talk to Hilary Naylor [Oakland Unified School District]

Libraries

Hooking up library catalogs would be rad... and libraries are the last bastion of nurturing public spaces.

• Talk to Ivan

Public Areas

Public wifi on the streets and in parks

• Lake Merritt

Cohousing Communities

Hyperlocal economies/sharing/barter/timebank; resilient communication tools; neighborhood watch; storytelling

• Swan's Market
• Hidden Creek
• Mariposa Grove
• Temescal Commons
• Temescal Creek
• Triple Point

Urban Farms & Community Gardens

Hook up sensors to be informed eg; if garden needs water, coordinate shifts, info on plant care, cropswap coordination...

• Official list of community gardens in Oakland
• The People's Grocery
• Phat Beets
• City Slicker Farms
• Ghost Town Farms

Farmer's Markets

Announcing special kinds of produce / advertising healthy local food and crafts/vendors

• Oakland Wiki has a great list!

Groups

Local Businesses

Free wifi attracts new people; community bulletin boards; local media streams

• SoleSpace*!
• Taco trucks!

Hacker/Makerspaces

DIY instructables; Microcontroller projects; developing application; community media; community bulletin boards to promote classes and events; find tools / skilled people / projects

• sudo room*!$
• Liberating Ourselves Locally*!
• The Crucible*!
• Ace Monster Toys*!?$
• Hacker Moms*!?
• Nimby Space!
• Counter Culture Labs*!$

Community Media

Local streams from community spaces that foster self-expression, art and politics; archives and zine library; radio podcasts;

• Youth Radio*!
• Oakland North*
• Oakland Local*
• AK Press
• Inkworks
• Slingshot
• Timeless, Infinite Light*
• PM Press

Non-Profits

By Donation-based gift economies and lending libraries; solidarity organizing; "craigslist free and de facto locally-relevant"

• Urban Strategies*!
• Oakland Technology Exchange West*! - Tons of equipment for building computers, which they then give away/work-trade to local youth who need them!
• Oakland Workers' Collective - Day laborers organization.
• The Grassroots House - Workspace for radical organizers. In Berkeley.
• Youth Uprising
• The Long Haul*! - Infoshop.
• Urban Habitat
• Techbridge - supporting girls in science and technology
• [www.lbcenter.org Lions Center for the Blind] - Assistive reading technologies; CCTV & Braile writer lending library. Founded in the 1930s.

Collectives

Community events/gathering organizing; skill-sharing; documentation

• A PLACE for Sustainable Living*! - Permaculture mecca located at 1121 64th St in Oakland.
• Rock Paper Scissors Collective*!? - Arts collective and neighbor-friend of sudo's.
• Sustaining Ourselves Locally*! - Food justice collective and neighbor-friend of LOL's.
• The Holdout*!
• The Vulcan*!

Worker-Owned Cooperatives

Self-organizing and coordination tools; hyperlocal economies;

• Design Action Collective*!
• Radical Designs*!
• Arizmendi!
• Mandela Foods Cooperative!
• DIG Cooperative

Projects

These projects are headed by friend's of the mesh group and could plug in in some really interesting ways:

• Nerds for Nature*
• Oakland Wiki*
• BACE Timebank*$
• Sun Synchony*!
• Open Oakland*
• East Bay Prisoner Support
• Timelist Group*$
• Rad Brains - Radical mental health collective. #mutualaid

No contacts, but seem interesting:

• Groundscore Collective - Public art.

Ideas

• Talk to landlords who own a fair number of properties.
• Find folks who might be interested in doing curriculum development for getting kids engaged in community media.
• How to remain the anti-Ingress? http://searchengineland.com/ingress-googles-ar-game-a-stealth-local-data-effort-175417
• More psychogeographic explorations of the urban landscape in which we live and move
  • Integrate with bioblitz (NFN).

ToDos

• Do a presentation/focus group at LOL
• Make contacts at schools and libraries
• Pitch the mesh at an upcoming Open Oakland monthly general meeting
• curriculum development