Mesh/26 March 2019

People's Open Network Weekly Meeting - 26 March 2019 7:30pm-9pm

Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Icebreaker Response; BRIEF Announcements

Icebreaker question: What's something you hear about all the time that doesn't make/never made sense to you?
Tom - he/we/they - the electoral college and 401ks
- Seth - he/they - i still dont really understand the way people use the word anxious (thought it meant dying to go somewhwere, but people use it to mean sterssed)
- Tyler - he/him - rag chewing - something about long conversations on ham radio
- Ben - he/they - icebreaker questions -- i think there're things that qualify but not coming to mind
- Mai - she/they - i feel like i have a lot of them -- there's a term people say about a yes/no, but can't remember right now - recent one was thinking people are living in alternate societal/political realities, not seeing facts ofsituations
- Benny -he/him - can't think of something.
- Null - hehim - i do this all the time -- build words i dont know into a pyramid of connections that make sense to me. also agree to disagree.
- doyouhaveamirror - *plays Beatles*

Check in on previous action items

Check previous meeting minutes at https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Minutes and paste action items below:

e-mail other community wifi groups about rooftop insurance @bennlich
- still TODO
adding neighbor outreach pamphlet to Loomio @iamai
- did it! if you are a pon steward, please go to loomio to vote!
get in touch with chuck / mary jo and terry @iamai @eenblam
- chuck node fixed--still need to go to MJ + Ts place. they bougth a sonic subscription because they really needed internet.
script for updating nodes re: new tunneldigger config @bennlich
- Done! https://github.com/sudomesh/patches/tree/master/bug0149
- Please test it on your node at home
- seth already tested!
revisit priorities brainstorm pad and report back @bennlich
- still TODO
ping golden gate paxio link @bennlich
- still TODO
poke ryan about marina @tunabananas
- jenny not present
handshake tokens @juul
- juul is not present
ping david and niki re: sunday @tunabananas
- jenny not present
create wiki page about EMF radiation @sierk @tunabananas
- sierk and jenny not present
any reply from LOLSpace? @tunabananas
- jenny not present
document battery-powered node in a waterproof bag @juul
- juul not present

Check previous meeting minutes at https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Minutes and paste weekly update items below:

Internet Archive link
- Benny: What's the direction on that? Marina?
- Mai: Yeah. Marina is the direction. I think we should re-up the direction of e-mailing hacker/politically aligned list and see fi they have a line of site.
- Mai: question -- did juul say it needed to be a multihop link?
- Mai: I'll email that building in Albany that has LOS to Internet Archive http://baysidecommons.org/
- Tom: interested in helping out!
Paxio link
Golden gate paxio link
- Benny: TODO above
Chuck/MJT link
- Chuck patched his node! Hooray!
- Mai will patch MJT's node
Hurricane Electric Exitnode
- null: last step is to test the setup
- bennlich will coordinatte w/ null
People's Park
- juul
ToMesh Workshop
- Benny: Definitely happening! April 6th. Going to send out confirmation e-mail to those who expressed interest. Thinking it'll be in the afternoon 12-3pm or late afternoon 2-5pm or early eve 4-7pm
  - seth, mai, ben, sierk, pam, lesley <-- if you're interested and not on here, please add your name

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seth: @juul - I went to a show on the rooftop of this building the other day: 5850 San Pablo Ave, Oakland, CA 94608. Maybe they have LOS to the GoldenGate neighborhood location with a gig of BWidth to donate?
mai: Breakout group to reach out to some requested node spots? We should see if any of them are in West Oakland or in the Grand Lake area or anywhere else wheere we already have a PON node

   * Mai: Oakland ISP Choice ordinance is moving forward. There are going to be some meetings.

mai: We need to reschedule meetings and figure out what other types of duties and tasks we want to take lead on.

We host office hours every Sunday from 1-3pm in Sudo Room to talk to people, work on sudomesh projects, and schedule node mounts.

mai will be there, null will be there, and seth will probably be there
To sign up to bottomline, fill in your name here: https://ethercalc.org/byoi_office_hours
Ongoing node mounting spreadsheet is located at: https://peoplesopen.net/sundays
Notes from this past Sunday's session:

April 13th?
- Too soon! Bump it back... May 4th?
Still down for the library?
- Temescal and Golden Gate have a space bigger than our meeting area, smaller than the ballroom. Often booked Saturday, not open Sundays
- Has to be between 10 and 5:30 at West Oakland.

At the end of the meeting, break out into small groups to hack on or discuss specific topics.

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