Attendees
- Marc, Deekoo, Jeremy, Jenny, JC, Ardeen, Daniel, Scott, David
Updates
- Marc: ~200 Meraki Sparkyboards [no cases, power adapters, or antennas] via a Noisebridge donation
- $2/each for antennas and PoE injectors, cases can be 3D printed or bought at dollar stores.
- Problem with the hardware watchdog rebooting every 5 minutes
- Deekoo submitted a security patch! and has a new contact in SF who wants to experiment with long-distance links
- Jeremy talked to Arizmendi; working on the wiki [Walkthrough] as well as adding QoS apps to Mesh/Firmware
- Jenny has been doing a deep dive on research re: current active mesh networks / community wireless networks
- JC has been hacking on the new boards donated to Noisebridge! and wants to set up nodes around NB/the Mission
- Daniel offers potential for a storage unit of several RAID controllers with 8 iTB hard disks
- Scott is up high in Piedmont! Volunteers to be part of the experimental test network
- David in S Berkeley, stoked to talk to his neighbors once the firmware is ready
Notes
- Oakland Public Library networks are open, we hope to connect the mesh to them
- QoS filtering runs into network neutrality issues
Reportbacks
- Deekoo: Goals w/ Sparky - Get it running in an emulator; experiment with kernal modules and investigate the watchdog;
Next Steps
- Flashing party! Meet Saturday (12/7) at noon to flash with new firmware, then home to mount nodes & meet online!
- Set up exit node
- System for firmware updates
Resources
- Daniel has a Cisco contact network! could get us bulk cheap PoE injectors, possibly source code
- Unix Surplus for high-quality server supplies on the cheap
Action Items
- Scott to reach out to OTX West about hardware donations, and Hurricane Electric about bandwidth donations
- Marc to finish up firmware
- Jenny to write article
- Jenny to ping other folks to join us on Saturday
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