Mesh/17 April 2014

http://pad.sudomesh.org April 17th Hacknight

Attendees

• Marc, Chris, Max, Mario, William, Noemie, Matt, Deekoo ("I contribute paranoia"), Alex, Philip, me too (Daniel)

Updates

• Max got the captive portal working on iOS 7!
• Marc wrote an article in Slingshot! Check it out!
• Matt working on a technical diagram to describe what your router does
• BART contract out to revamp their connectivity
• Marc announces our second mesh service: the cheese machine

Announcements

• Activist training next Thursday - can we bring some cryptoparty?
  • https://pad.riseup.net/p/EarthDaytoMayDayNVDA
• Cryptoparty this Sunday 2-5pm, special edition focused on journalists.
• Noemie will be filming short (15min) interviews with folks on Sunday

Discussion

• Pre-deployment plans -
  • logging,
  • hardware watchdog to picostation,
  • cases and antennas for the Sparkys,
  • finding tall locations

ToDos

• update active nodes
• Add to Wishlist:
  • Antenna towers
  • Power supplies (be inventive! eg; power supply to a Roomba)
• pick up VOIP adapters

Misc

• "My so-called VPS"
• Protip: Most places throw their magazines out on Tuesdays
• "I want spikes on my hardhat"
• "Build server down!"
• interesting IoT server on Raspi: http://thethingbox.io - Raspbian, Mosquitto, Node.js, Node-Red
• fdroid, nodecipher

Gratuitous Link Dump

• Knight News Challenge - feedback period ends tomorrow: https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/submissions/toward-a-network-commons-building-an-internet-for-and-by-the-people
• BART procurements: http://www.bart.gov/about/business/procurement/contractsout
• BATMAN-advanced installation http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/BATMAN-Advanced_Setup
• Don't Copy That Floppy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI
• LibreMap: https://github.com/libremap
• Topology diagram (with Virtual Public Network aka VPuN) https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Diagrams#Network_Topology_Diagram
  • explanation of VPuN cites gnunet https://gnunet.org/gnunet-vpn and http://www.isaca.org/Journal/Past-Issues/2001/Volume-3/Pages/Virtual-Private-Networking-Confidentiality-on-Public-Networks.aspx
• Open Source tools - http://openhatch.org/