Mesh/11 July 2013

July 11th Meeting Minutes

Agenda

• Update on crowdfunding campaign [1]
• Report-back on existing mesh: Jenny on OTI's Commotion project
• Firmware overview
• Name brainstorm! [2]
  • Set tentative deadline? Three weeks?

Attendees

• Marc, Mikey, Nader, Jenny, Miguel, Jacob, Mitar, MaxB

Announcements

• We now have $2,203.00 from the WePay, and still around 0.7 Bitcoins (about $70 depending on the date)

Report-Back

• OTI's Commotion Project is currently being tested in Red Hook, Brooklyn and Detroit (3 different community meshes) - https://commotionwireless.net/
• [1] http://ulysses.detroitfuturelab.org/, [2] http://www.our-morningside.com/, [3] http://ms-mesh.org/

What we're doing

• Mesh the east bay! (at least to start with....)
• Batman-adv firmware at least for first deployment
• Planning on getting bandwith donations in order to serve the internet to hosts.
• Free to the "consumer"
• Business ideas - local businesses could put small ads on splash page
• VPN tunnels mean IPs could be hidden
• TOR exit node? Limits liability

Today I learned

• https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned
• It would be nice to hold one on mesh networking
• Introducing mesh to the public

Firmware Stuff

• New Page: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware
• Firmware brainstorm: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware
  • Mesh, Public, Private
  • Bandwidth shaping
  • Remote administration (if allowed)
  • Web admin interface
    • Change private SSID
    • Status of node
    • Sharing allocation
  • Report/status
  • Local services

How to Pitch to Community

• Opening up / sharing your wifi for neighbors to use
• Why paying twice, at home and when on move?

Naming

• For 10$ you could vote on a name!
• should it be independent of organization, geography, and hacker space?
• SSIDEAL; Route-Around
• Need to determine our organizational structure - non-organizationally-linked neutral name

Berkeley Co-op Folks

• Would like first to mesh the houses
• Would also dig potentially creating the link between houses and the Internet Archive link in Richmond

Technological Stuffs

• VPN in kernel space: https://github.com/wlanslovenija/tunneldigger

Misc Notes

• Newer Ubiquiti firmware
• CJDNS - https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns
• VPN tunnels for directing mesh traffic
• Look up legal liability w/ regards to traffic crossing "our" VPN
• One VPN connection is enough for a largeish network
• "Please choose the legal regime for your traffic"
• cooperation between networks (sharing VPNs, group buys, ...)
• Become a reseller, or make our own hardware

OTI network (Commotion)

• Redhood Brooklyn + Detroit
• useful in New York - Sandy
• Tidepools http://tidepools.co/
• now concentrating in Detroit
• small mesh networks, 8-9 nodes
• Open??? networks (GSM)
• inflatable towers for GSM - http://openbts.org/

Action Items

• Tor

Post-Meeting Discussion Groups

• wlan-slovenia & VPN etc;