Mesh/29 January 2015

Weekly Meeting

Attendees

Alex, Marc, April, Martin, Ugo, Wilson, Joseph, Travis, Praveen, Chris

New folks

Wilson: Design background. Front-end, web development. Wanted to see if he could help Ugo: Wants to learn more. Get the best resources to learn about mesh networks and device to device connections. Looked at the website. Thinks what we're doing is awesome. April: Been working on this for a month or two. Kind of a professional political organizer. Excited to work on the project. Martin: Doing radio stuff for a long time, including mesh networking Alex: Been working on this project for just under a year. Been working on some of the firmware stuff. Was working on some of the node monitoring stuff. Joseph: Here a few months ago, catching up about research and writing on the project Travis: Lives in Berkeley and is just starting to get interested in mesh networking Chris: Has been coming to the sudomesh side of things for the fun. Monitoring.

Agenda

• New folks - intros
• Intro to the project
  • Alex talks about building a firmware and building a physical network
• LMI
• Debrief from retreat
• Website updates
• Internet Archive tomorrow
• Deployment in West Oakland Saturday?

 * http://meshmap.sudoroom.org/

• Setting up the Omni network, when?

How to jump into the tech side of things

• Anyone who is a C programmer can jump in with the firmware
• The web GUI to show how much bandwidth is used on the node needs some work, particularly on the front end
• More inforgraphics that could explain the whole process, an animated one is in works, apparently (Joseph is interested)

Action Items

• April will finally get more inforamtion about other colo connections
• type up the retreat debrief
• Mount nodes in West Oakland at 12noon on Saturday w/marc. If you want to join, please email the list or Marc.
• We need to create a to-do list to help folks more readily get involved.
• Meeting with Internet Arcive on Friday
• Get a better Internet connection for Omni

Misc.

• Map of broadband adoption in Oakland: http://open-oakland.cartodb.com/viz/1d8f9768-d7b9-11e3-b620-0e73339ffa50/public_map?title=true&description=true&search=false&shareable=true&cartodb_logo=true&layer_selector=false&legends=true&scrollwheel=true&fullscreen=true&sublayer_options=1&sql=&sw_lat=37.655014078010716&sw_lon=-122.55455017089844&ne_lat=37.91224232115994&ne_lon=-121.67564392089844

   **This is when the FCC's definition of broadband was 4Mbps downstream and 1Mbps upstream