Attendees

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
- https://noisebridge.net/Sparky
- https://noisebridge.net/RB133
- Helping to run a remote 31C3 (Chaos Communications Congress) conference at Noisebridge and wants to run a wireless/mesh
- Hacker challenge at the top of the Noisebridge stairs - outdoor AP with a serial cable hanging out
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

Deekoo: Goals w/ Sparky - Get it running in an emulator; experiment with kernal modules and investigate the watchdog;

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

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

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