Mesh/11 July 2013
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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;