Mesh/03 April 2014

April 3rd Hacknight

Attendees

Jenny, Juul, Daniel, Jeremy, Deekoo, Alex, Max, Hol, Chris, Will,

Updates

• We are now provisionally fiscally sponsored by Media Alliance: http://media-alliance.org/
• Google Bay Area Impact Challenge application has been submitted. Possible award of 100/250/500k!
• We don't need to do taxes if we've made less than 10k/yr (we made about 5k)
• Marc submitted an article to Slingshot
• Gimmick for First Friday (tomorrow) - set up a mobile node connected to RPS' wireless
  • Set up a node that dangles outside of sudo's window
• Merakis are solved! Thanks to Adrian for his expertise in solving the Mysterious Window Chill Issue.
• We now have a 3D printer that can print in ABS!
  • Chris has designed an enclosure for the Sparkys: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Meraki_Sparky_Enclosure_Design
• OpenBTS network? Talk to Shaddih
  • OSMOCOM DB
• We should submit a talk for HOPE X:

Fiscal Sponsorship

• Media Alliance

December report

• 1099 question - anyone contracted for services past $600
• Yahoo! store for donating tax-deductibly
• Email updates in newsletter
• Can support grant proposals.
• not requied to report the income (min. around 10k)
• the hardware is tax-deductible

Need from us:

• Organizational letterhead formal request from Sudo Mesh w/ 2 paragraph description
• Tentative project budget - year or durationu
• Project timeline (quarterly is good)
• Takes about 10 days to process
• Then a formal legal agreement is issued

Captive Portal

• Apple devices are wonky
• Could use IP Tables to search for specific strings

Tonight

• Add network diagrams to Help or Documentation bar
• iPad testing

Gratuitous Link Dump

http://deekoo.net/technocracy/build-proxy/ http://media-alliance.org/ https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Meraki_Sparky_Enclosure_Design http://x.hope.net/#about