Mesh/7 March 2013

Action Items

Immediate

• OpenITP Grant - throw in your thoughts! - https://pad.riseup.net/p/510penITPapp - due March 31st
• Market research on 4MB routers that will run OpenWRT
• Juul will research binoculars and send info to Mark (carryover item)
• Testing with satellite dishes - in sudo room next week! (after the main meeting)

Longer Term

• Send out map and work on it
• Update website
  • Commenting on nodes (Revent, Tidepools)
• Come up with a handout for going door-to-door

Attendees

Jenny, Miguel, Mark B, Bill, Jordan, with some OaklandWiki meshing ;D,

Notes

• How the site works:
  • Create an account and put in the MAC address of the mesh router
  • Allows us to build a list of all the routers on the network
• openmesh firmware runs a shell script when first installed, connects to openmesh.org and our own instance, 510pen, is recognized and fed directly to the router
• How the portal currently works:
  • Pushes the HTML to openmesh.com if it updates
• How the portal could work:
  • Data source on the mesh, some IP, every router could use static pages (using javascript restful endpoints)
• We should get more routers! 8MB preferably, 4MB might work
• We'd need more CPU - WRT4GL's should work - CPU can easily be maxed out depending on size of the mesh
• Installing fibre along International Blvd - a highspeed access point would make it worthwhile to shoot across the city
• Research fibre in East Oakland
• Mesh nodes for GSM
• RanchWiFi - Solar ISP - Matt's connection
• Sudo GSM! We use all the protocols at sudo!!
• Old Sonic routers??
  • Opt-in with Sonic? - Dane Jasper
• Should we abandon OpenMesh and flash routers with our own firmware? At the very least, we should field test the firmwares out there.
• OpenMesh used to use OLSR, and is proud to have switched to batman-adv
• 802.11s - mesh standard - what's the deal?
• BattleMesh!!! 4/20 in Denmark - we should keep tabs on how that pans out. Or.. go?

Reportbacks

• Jenny followed up in #oti on weatherproof equipment Ubiquiti equipments
• Jenny and Mark B presented 510pen at Open Oakland.
• Follow up with Tony on Cisco connection - "how many routers do you need?" he asked at Open Oakland meeting. Mark's answer, "ideally, one in every other house."
• Bill did not flash the router ;) but his Coursera course is ending soon!