Mesh/19 December 2013

December 19th!

Attendees

• Deekoo, Marc, Xavier, Maxb, Jenny, Garrett, Pete

Updates

• We can get a bank account with internet archive credit union. They sign their letters ", the internet". Jenny and Matt are going to work on it
• Jenny and Marc worked on a rad flyer to hand out with new nodes
• Nic is interested in working on infographics / graphic design over the break
• Marc: Node configurator now auto-assigns IP addresses and creates stickers to be put on the PoE injector
  • DNS server discovery
  • Working on traffic control tonight (designating what amount of bandwidth to be shared) - we need to demonstrate that switching to the mesh as their only AP will allow for greater control
  • Tried for many hours to get the Meraki routers working, to no avail :(
    • Will be happy to show someone else how to work with the routers and which files control the watchdog.
• Deekoo: Redesigning the build system so it will download and compile seperately, archives of our code, ??
• Xavier is excited about connecting the mesh to community, and he wants to help in the social outreach.
• Node database is using leveldb (node-database). Marc is excited about working on/building scalable decentralized apps

ToDos Tonight

• Marc: Node configurator & traffic control
• Max: Setting up node configurator on build server
• Deekoo: Build/Download separation
• Jenny/Pete: Work on pamphlet / outreach

Notes

• We should have a forum!
• Reach out to orgs that receive lots of hardware donations with requests for: antennae
• Need to consider the problem of scaling - largest batman-adv mesh according to Elektra has been ~300 nodes
• Node configurator compacts all components unique to the node into an IPK file that's then installed on the router
• IPV6 spherical routing (??)
• Node database does IP assignment by checking that no other IPs have that range
• Forkable CNC (command and control)

Linkdump

• http://www.instructables.com/id/Easy-to-Build-WIFI-24GHz-Yagi-Antenna/
• https://github.com/libremap - "a scalable, global and decentralized router database and map visualization for community networks, such as guifi, Altermundi, FunkFeuer, ninux, freifunk, Commotion..."
• Notes on Board of Directors: https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroomboard
• Financial report for setting up Wikimedia DC as a non-profit (useful for comparison?) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WM_US-DC/Bootstrapping_grant/Report

Action Items

• Calls to Action on the website
• Email those who've posted nodes on the map (sign them up to an announce list)
• Make sure traffic control works and is integrated with GUI