Mesh/14 March 2017

Sudomesh meeting - 7 March 2017

attendees

• 9
• grant, jenny, jehan, will, dale, marc, andy, cedric & patrick

rwanda mesh

• cedric and patrick are visiting from Rwanda, where they are wishing to build a widespread mesh network for local file-sharing of streaming video and other media content
• co-founders of VugaPay, a Rwanda television app
• much of their content at current is locally-produced live video broadcasts, not recorded

updates

• grant: almost have the virtual mesh demonstration working
• jehan: working on the dashboard. parsing of command output is working and hooked into diagram.
• marc: played with naming of nodes, considering using emoji to dilineate between the different nodes - but how compatible is that with different operating systems?
  • live test:
    • Windows 10: works!
    • Mac OS Lion and up: works
    • Ubuntu 14.04: doesn't work :( (at least not poop, caterpiller, duck
    • Arch: doesn't work :(
    • Android 5: could see caterpillar, poop but not spider or duck
    • Android 6: could see caterpillar, poop, spider but not duck
  • emojipedia - look up each OS' level of unicode support - http://emojipedia.org/
  • need to be under 15 bytes & at least 2 emoji, ideally v6.0

• marc: we have a working map! still working on getting active status updates from the nodes
  • shane suggested a local geo-ip database, but is only approximate to 1 mile
  • will: i have a 60K mac address database

to do

• order stickers, bizcards?
• print & post more flyers for the byoi workshop