Mesh/Naming

The following names are related to this group:

sudomesh

sudomesh (sudomesh.org) is the name of the mesh organization. We are going to incorporate as a non-profit and apply for 501(c)3 status.

People's Open Network

People's Open Network (peoplesopen.net) is the name of the network. The network is not controlled by sudomesh, but sudomesh runs a wifi mesh network that is part of People's Open Network. The only thing required for people or organizations to be part of peoplesopen.net is that they abide by the Network Commons License (currently being worked out). We are filing for a trademark for People's Open Network so we can prevent people from calling themselves People's Open Network if they do not abide by the NCL. We are not yet sure who the "we" are in this case. We would like peoplesopen.net to be as decoupled as possible from sudomesh without any power other than to enforce that people only use the name if their networks are NCL-compatible.

All of the sudomesh wifi nodes use peoplesopen.net as their public SSID.

Mesh the Planet!

Mesh the Planet (meshthepla.net) is currently not used for anything, but we have tossed around the idea that we could use it for a campaign to get more people involved with community wireless mesh networks, and perhaps to make a map of all community wireless mesh networks globally. We need to coordinate with similar efforts from e.g. Freifunk.

Historic

Some of our original naming discussion is available for reading.