December 12th Hacknight

Attendees

Updates

Jenny and Matt went to SF State to give a presentation on Sudomesh to a computer networking for business students class. Went well! It was 40 minutes long and there was a lot of eye contact! No sleeping in the back!!
- For future presentations we could set up a mesh!
- Internships!
- Prof is interested in tinkering with 802.11s + library in a box
MaxB working on the build server & firmware generator - ready to do a new walkthrough for creating nodes
Deekoo has gotten the Nanostation working (can pick up MonkeyBrains 5GHz from 2 miles away!), Nanobridge not working, wants to do range testing
- We could run the PoE off of old laptop batteries! Mounted on a pedicab! Bandwidth/speed test + spectrum analysis
Luis is working on setting up / learning about BATMAN, interested in working on client-side interfaces
Jeremy + Daniel did a bunch of video interviews this past weekend! Interested in education + outreach
Daniel applied for us to receive a donation of 3 racks, 13/14 hard drives
Jenny + Matt + Mitar spoke with Ralf from Internet Archive - Notes to be put on wiki - https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Meetings
Marc has been finishing up the node configurator, let's test it on a router tonight!
- Also working on stickers with basic info such as private SSID + password, admin login info
Xavier interested in applications of mesh for activism

Add a link on the site for "I'd like to get an intro to the mesh"
Talk to technology coordinators in schools
Local applications still in need of a portal page; Luis wants to help design the frontend
Tech Support: Send or bring us your router and we'll give you a node
Daniel suggests a block party to test the range of the mesh!
Talk to people who own properties about mounting nodes on the rooftops.
- Inspiration from the FNF - convinced the owner of a housing complex to provide free Wi-Fi, after which point the chronically empty apartments were filled!

Chris has a pretty sweet CAD design for a 3D printed enclosure for the Sparkys!
Deekoo tested most of our 5GHz routers - 3 Nanobridges working [Checked out one], 2 not working [plz edit with correct data]
Jenny reading Cook Report interviews w/ Altermundi & FNF folks: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Interviews_with_other_meshers#Altermundi_Interviews_.28Argentina.29
MaxB compiling..
- Firmware generator is ready to roll! playing nicely with the node configurator
- https://github.com/sudomesh/openwrt-firmware-config
Juul tweaking node configurator
- https://github.com/sudomesh/node-configurator
Scattered brainstorms