Mesh/25 06 2019
People's Open Network Weekly Meeting - 25 June 2019 7:30pm-9pm
Agenda
- Introductions and Meeting Roles (15 mins)
- Announcements and Upcoming Events (10 mins)
- Check Ins: Action Items & Active Projects (30 mins)
- Check in on ongoing projects (15 mins)
- Discussion items (10 min)
- Wrap-up meeting (5 min)
Introductions
Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Icebreaker Response
- Icebreaker question: what did you do today or a fun legal story
- benny
- eve
- mai
- jenny
- juul
- chuck
- tom
- tyler
- null (remote)
- doyouhaveamirror
- eenblam
Meeting Roles
- Facilitator/s: Mai
- Notetaker/s: everyone
- URL of this pad: https://peoplesopen.net/notes
Announcements and Upcoming Events
When's the Meet-Up This Month?
- What:
- When:
- Where:
- Who:
- Bottomliners:
Check Ins: Action Items & Active Projects
Check https://trello.com/b/wBKTQKDs/active-projects for Blocked items.
Check previous meeting minutes at https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Minutes and paste action items below.
- talk to native health center folks @tunabananas - nd
- will make a trello card for it, link card between node mounts and active projects?
- e-mail jonah and ask about richmond street light internet @bennlich
- did it -- will follow up with marc afterwords
- berkeley light pole mounting research @mux
- mobile citizen update @tunabananas - need to reply about devices question
- Franklin R910 or Cool Pad?
- https://www.sprint.com/en/shop/hotspots/franklin-r910-mobile-hotspot.html?ensembleId=FRKR910KIT&contractName=0-yr-ib&deviceQuantity=1&plan=pln10780002prd&protectionPlan=1100264
- External antenna plugs
- People have been hacking these for a while: https://github.com/logich/r910
- We have to call mobile citizen to get a code, then access a secret menu to unlock usb tethering: https://www.reddit.com/r/Calyx/comments/7ofbjb/r910_sucks/
- https://www.sprint.com/en/shop/hotspots/coolpad-surf-hotspot.html?ensembleId=CP332ABLK&contractName=0-yr-ib&deviceQuantity=1
- The main selling point of the Cool Pad seems to be 600 MHz support but Sprint doesn't have 600 MHz support
- It doesn't have external antenna connectors.
- Unknown if it does USB tethering
- Unknown how reliable it is
- https://www.sprint.com/en/shop/hotspots/coolpad-surf-hotspot.html?ensembleId=CP332ABLK&contractName=0-yr-ib&deviceQuantity=1
- send out self-dealing resolution loomio thread @tunabananas
- fiber internet via sonic or at&t at omni? @jmg @null
- No LMI fiber, only AT&T + Sonic fiber
- We should ask other Omni collectives about getting Sonic fiber, which would cost more (from $150 -> $300)
- Quarterly reports
- @eenblam: got sidetracked with travel/work this month. I'd like to keep making progress on this, but there's also less pressure to get this done by end-of-quarter.
- Github Repo: https://github.com/sudomesh/quarterlies - for human touch, taking notes throughout the quarter
- benny: I'm happy to help dump my brain a bit about how to gather some of the info and set up a few things, but don't want to bottom line this
- mai: also down to help
- jnny: also down to help and could take a leaderly role on this one
- eenblam: thx! I'll give it another look and reach out
- juul: I started learning about wireguard. Want to get a wireguard setup for our archive.org server and start adding support to librerouter.
- eenblam - hmu
- juul: I want to set up a dialup server and client and make a link from a payphone with an acoustic coupler, who wants
- benny wants to learn about this ^^. i love payphones.
- mai: I want to learn about this 2
- eenblam: also want
- benny wants
- to fix the open DNS resolver issue on the internet archive exitnode
- to build one n750 0.3.0 firmware to unblock people trying to flash this
- to rewrrite the walkthrough page
- to finish the project map i started a few months ago
- to check in with ISP fair choice project
- start thinking about simple mesh services implementation
- eenblam: Let's talk DNS?
- mai: I wanna help
- eenblam: quarterly reporting + infrastructure monitor-y stuff
- benny: i wanna be a resource for u
- jnny:
- finally upload old battlemesh interviews of community wireless stewards (from... 2016?) and bring camera to dweb camp for another round!
- services ideating, perhaps reigniting http://mycelia.cc
- mai: dweb camp
- promote people's open - filmmaker wants to interview us about PON
- blog post / social media posts about dweb camp
- pretty much super busy working on putting on the event
- archive mesh hack: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/all-day-hackathon-for-dweb-camp-tickets-63718679285
- tentative: does anyone wish to be compensated for work this month? Might require either scheduling a board meeting, or just you stepping down from board.
- eenblam: Jenny mentioned an issue with compensating board members that wasn't addressed at last board meeting
- mai: only is a problem is there's some significant % of board members who are being compensated so it's not a pressing issue yet
- @mai jenny had more info after the fact
- right, board needs to sign a self-dealing resolution for any compensation to a director. will draft and post on loomio for myself, and we can use that as a model @tunabananas
- @mai jenny had more info after the fact
- eenblam: for whatever work needs compensation, then we need to go through a different process for approving it from the board, if they are a board member. If someone wants to get paid to many project over a certain period, then maybe they should just not be on the board?
- jenny: this only applies when you go over the independent contract limit ($600/year) in which you need to send a 1099. So for small amounts we can just sign these Self-Dealing documents for those one-off cases
- jenny: will ask jesse when he gets back about the details of this
- tom: plan is to attend more meetings and get a sense of what's happening
- down to do time-capped tasks if other people think of them
Trello Boards
- Comms Trello: https://trello.com/invite/b/f3ugMPNU/94033ee6c2cef93fc1b1637b727c902a/sudo-mesh-communications
- Node Mounts: https://trello.com/invite/b/DtzngKaM/49e1c21fc9da199fcdeceb8623b5117a/node-mounts
- Bugs & Technical: Github: https://peoplesopen.net/issues, https://peoplesopen.net/learn/development/
- Internal Logistics & Bureaucracy Trello: https://trello.com/invite/b/LzVQlW3X/1bb8bd543c8633688175365d2554c2c2/internal-logistics-bureaucracy-brainstorms
Discussion Item: Meta Meeting Conversation
- Active Projects in Trello
- Good way to keep track of progress, notes, contact info etc and have some continuity
- As well as checklists!
- If there's no progress on projects in a month, it should go into Blocked column or moved to another board
- Can also add a Due Date, if it makes sense to, so that it's obvious when a card is obsolete, even if incomplete.
- there're Trello integrations for syncing cards between boards, jenny will explore
Action Items
Copy and paste from previous action items above, delete completed ones, and add new ones:
- Quarterly financial report will be sent next week @tunabananas
- Reply to Mobile Citizen @tunabananas
- Self-dealing resolution for @tunabananas && ping jesse
- berkeley light pole mounting research @mux
Last Meeting Notes
Wrap-up Meeting
- please archive these meeting notes by copying the entire pad contents onto the sudomesh wiki with the correct date format: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/DD_MONTH_YYYY
- then please erase the contents of this pad
- then please cut & paste a blank template from here: https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Mesh/Mesh_Meeting_Notes_Template&action=edit
- previous meeting notes are archived here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Minutes