Mesh/23 October 2018

People's Open Network Weekly Meeting - 23 October 2018 7:30pm-9pm

Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Icebreaker Response; BRIEF Announcements

Icebreaker question: favorite deja Vu moment
jehan - = he/him - general
jnny - she/her - age 7
seth - he/they - general deja vu twice a year
- just mounted a node at aquatic park!!! want to see if it reaches berkeley sailing club zone
juan - from peru, worked on building wireless networks there - recurring feeling of being in a coma
nanomonkey - reremembering times i've played a game where I have to take a mental image of the last time I remember playing the game.
Null - they/them - black cat walked by and then again!
benny - he/him - noticing recurring phrases, recently "it is what it is"

Check in on previous action items

Check previous meeting minutes at https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Minutes and past action items below:

Reach out to insurance broker recommended by Jesse - Jenny
- have psychological block with insurance :(
- jehan has old e-mail from them forgot to reply to. need irs letter, supplemental application. will follow up and ask for help on rocket chat if needed.
e-mail yar about tcp activities (benny)
- did not, but now I have jar's e-mail address :) thanks jenny
Post the Handshake PR to our blog
- Mai did! https://peoplesopen.net/blog/press-release-sudo-mesh-receives-100k-donation-from-handshake-foundation/
Set up event postings for next BYOI -
- see (https://www.loomio.org/d/0h914dO3/byoi-fall-2018)
- Omni Calendar - Jenny
  - complete
  - benny - do we need this? thought it was gonna be outdoor BBQ
- Eventbrite - Mai
- East Bay Express - Eve

During last office hours (21 Oct 2018), Grant and Jorrit tried to migrate current build.sudomesh.org (and associated) to a new server so that we can run a secondary exit node on it (see https://github.com/sudomesh/bugs/issues/28) . To complete this, access to domain name registrar (namecheap?) and digital ocean are needed. First is protected with MFA, for second the password seems out of date. Ask - please provide access .
- jenny - i updated password for DO and added grant, benny, and jorrit as users to namecheap. so should be done.

jehan - recently installed a network in medellin colombia! unfortunately not yet online because of issues with backhaul. ISP is flaky :-/ but that's normal. Didn't make the backhaul deal far enough ahead of time. It is ~40 nodes! Ubiquity rocket dishes from a school to a hacker center, where they will have fiber. At the school there are sector antennas that face adjacent hillside. Taught folks how to crimp outdoor ethernet. You can just run a cable across a bunch of roofs and nobody will have a problem with it! Looking for other options while waiting for ISP...
read more: https://medium.com/althea-mesh/althea-in-medellin-c39f1416913e
- jenny: suggest pinging MedellinLibre if they still exist. Contact is Fernando Giraldo,
scouted the berkeley marina on sunday. LOS to richmond tower might work, though there's a park to the north of the yacht and sailing clubs that may be a barrier - we should try anyway. jenny has contacts to both yacht and sailing clubs

jenny - this coming sunday internet archive is having party at warehouse in richmond. sounds awesome! check here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-internet-archives-physical-archive-party-tickets-49908778500
jenny - got an email from someone in florida who has been following our email list for a while. going to cc ben.
jehan - come to portland on nov. 10 for a workshop we're putting on about building your own isp! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/altheapalooza-tickets-51046373076
benny - ragga got in touch on rocketchat about setting up mesh in Anna Regina, Guyana. they're wondering if anyone knows about cheap broadband providers in South America?
- inquiry on rocketchat from @ragga wanting to building a network in Guyana, chat continues in #learning channel
- juan says Telefonica is the biggest provider there, Claro resells them. juan bought bandwidth from telefonica and built routes from those locations (in bigger cities) to places they were not interested in reaching.
- Satellite connections are expensive and slow

Jenny suggests we take over the Archive party on Sunday :D

We try to arrange a rooftop node mount every Sunday afternoon. Ongoing spreadsheet is located at: https://peoplesopen.net/sundays

We host office hours every Sunday from 1-2pm in Sudo Room. To sign up for a shift, fill in your name here: https://ethercalc.org/byoi_office_hours

Next Sunday's volunteer: benny -- rendezvous for an hour or two then go to internet archive?
Notes from this past Sunday's session: scoped marina.

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