Mesh/17 April 2014
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http://pad.sudomesh.org April 17th Hacknight
Attendees
- Marc, Chris, Max, Mario, William, Noemie, Matt, Deekoo ("I contribute paranoia"), Alex, Philip, me too (Daniel)
 
Updates
- Max got the captive portal working on iOS 7!
 - Marc wrote an article in Slingshot! Check it out!
 - Matt working on a technical diagram to describe what your router does
 - BART contract out to revamp their connectivity
 - Marc announces our second mesh service: the cheese machine
 
Announcements
- Activist training next Thursday - can we bring some cryptoparty?
 - Cryptoparty this Sunday 2-5pm, special edition focused on journalists.
 - Noemie will be filming short (15min) interviews with folks on Sunday
 
Discussion
- Pre-deployment plans -
- logging,
 - hardware watchdog to picostation,
 - cases and antennas for the Sparkys,
 - finding tall locations
 
 
ToDos
- update active nodes
 - Add to Wishlist:
- Antenna towers
 - Power supplies (be inventive! eg; power supply to a Roomba)
 
 - pick up VOIP adapters
 
Misc
- "My so-called VPS"
 - Protip: Most places throw their magazines out on Tuesdays
 - "I want spikes on my hardhat"
 - "Build server down!"
 - interesting IoT server on Raspi: http://thethingbox.io - Raspbian, Mosquitto, Node.js, Node-Red
 - fdroid, nodecipher
 
Gratuitous Link Dump
- Knight News Challenge - feedback period ends tomorrow: https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/submissions/toward-a-network-commons-building-an-internet-for-and-by-the-people
 - BART procurements: http://www.bart.gov/about/business/procurement/contractsout
 - BATMAN-advanced installation http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/BATMAN-Advanced_Setup
 - Don't Copy That Floppy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI
 - LibreMap: https://github.com/libremap
 - Topology diagram (with Virtual Public Network aka VPuN) https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Diagrams#Network_Topology_Diagram
 - Open Source tools - http://openhatch.org/