Mesh/24 September 2019

People's Open Network Weekly Meeting - 24 September 2019 7:30pm-9pm'

• https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Safer_Space_Policy

Agenda

• Introductions and Meeting Roles (15 mins)
• Announcements and Upcoming Events (10 mins)
• Check Ins: Action Items & Active Projects (30 mins)
• Check in on ongoing projects (15 mins)
• Discussion items (10 min)
• Wrap-up meeting (5 min)

Introductions

Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Icebreaker Response; BRIEF Announcements

• Icebreaker question:
  • Favorite way to cool off or opinions on zhe/zer
• jenny - she/her - could use zhe/zer, i prefer being hot and sweat and oerheated to cooling off
• scott - i think its nice to just get rid of gender - i like to be submersed in water or a fan
• matt - ze/zer suits me fine - i like the ice bath -- immersion in very cold water
• seth - he/they/ze - i like to walk it out
• dan/radar - part of the amateur radio communtiy - gender's not that important to me - cool shower to stay cool or skiing
• ryan - ze/zer is fine but i prefer they/them - being in the ocean or the woods
• jackson - whatever pronouns you want - wrote a pretty lengthy twitter thread about generative pronouns - swimming in a pool
• lesley - pronoun agnostic - ze/zer thing i once listened to greg eegan's diaspora as an audio book - lots of sentient characters with ze/zer pronouns - dousing myself with water even if im indoors
• benny - he/him - might get used to xe/xir if everyone around me was doing it. Suck on ice cube
• john-mark - he/him/they - xe/xir would be odd, they're still not very commonly used. Cooling off - playing in the sprinklers.
• marc/juul - he/him - would get used to new pronouns fairly quickly. Jumping in water.
• eve - i open all the windows
• tyler - he/him - i feel old -- ze/zer goes over my head - cold yerba mate instead of hot stuff to cool down
• sierk - used to be around -- havent been around recently -- riding my bike is my favorite way to cool off
• mai - she/her/they/them - been involved in peoplesopen since 2017 - stand in front of a fan -- dumping ice on my head -- would feel fine about ze/zer pronouns as long as everyone is down

Meeting Roles

• Facilitator/s: benny (self-selected)
• Stacktaker:
• Notetaker/s: lesley, benny
  • URL of this pad: https://peoplesopen.net/notes

Announcements and Upcoming Events

• ryan: NASA space hackathon - is one based in Berkeley - 2019 NASA Space Apps Challenge - October 18-20. https://www.spaceappschallenge.org/
• jenny: radical networks conference in new york also October 18-20
• jenny: October 1, dweb SF meetup every first tuesday; matt and mai are speaking; also maybe jenny? https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-sf-meet-up-october-tickets-73850257107?aff=erelexpmlt
• seth: Emergency prep fair: https://bdpnnetwork.org/event/community-based-dp-demofair-2019/ i'm gonna email them tomorrow bout possibly tabling
• jenny: non-profit dev summit Nov. 6-8; https://aspirationtech.org/events/devsummit19
• jackson - going to japan for two weeks! ill be online
• matt - this weekend is offline camp in oregon: http://offlinefirst.org/camp/

Check Ins: Action Items & Active Projects

Check https://trello.com/b/wBKTQKDs/active-projects for Blocked items.

• matt went to our networks, brought back wifi spam device
  • Open source FireChat type app: https://github.com/ultralight-beam
• seth, mai, juul: went to spirit and soul event in richmond
  • met the mayor
  • introduced ourselves to a few richmond organizations (NYAD, no coal activists, low-income housing org)
  • want to have a kit to bring to events like this (want to order a nice banner)

• Benny
  • last month: met up with someone named Dig, did some work on the monitor. hopefully more contribs to come!
  • this month: want to collaborate with jackson on the service browser..

• Jackson: focused on building this service registry / service browser. been planned for a while to have a directory of services on the network. source for that registry is a dns zone file that can be cloned. frontend will provide a list of services based on the zone file

• Mai:
  • last month:
    • went to a people's park meeting to meet folks. ayden who has been coming to our meetings has been all over the local news.
    • receivin money from APC
    • wrangled fitz to modify disaster radio board
  • in november:
    • i want to figure out how we can support their events in november. they've been thinking about having an event at omni
    • giong to apply for funding for disaster radio

• Ryan:
  • very new to these--came to first meeting two weeks ago
  • i am a communications consultant
  • last monthL I showed interest! and now im back
  • next month: supporting communications!

• Seth
  • last month: spirit & soul
  • next month:

*** gonna look into the prep event
*** gonna check out ps print

• Tyler
  • last month:
    • gave a presentation about peoples open at monthly ORCA meeting
  • next month: thinking about updating flierwith a qr code for join tab and chat
    • want to run a site survey at HAM place

• Matt
  • last month
    • went to our networks
    • been hanging out at gunners office
    • getting the lay of the land
  • next month
    • interested in disaster radio; going to palesttine end of next month and would love to take some hardware there

• Marc
  • last month
    • finalize prototype plan for new disaster radio -- all off the shelf modules. then fitz will make the PCB for it
    • doing a survey into dweb-type stuff; scuttlebutt, dat, ipfs, blockchains, etc. going to condense in something to publish.
    • set up mobile citizen hotspots at richmond fair
  • next month
    • also gonna collaborate on service browser (DNS-SD)

• jmg
• next month
  • planning to come back again; revitalize internet archive link / get my house connected

• Eve
• last month
  • went on a hike up the claremont canyon fire trail

• Jenny
• last month
  • finally got 12 mobile citizen hot spots
  • getting paid to learn how to code!
  • forgot to mention - distributed two laptops, currently fixing two more
  • next month: do some work on outreach to existing node owners, update budget with actuals

ToDo

• We need to ensure that we don't renew the Calyx subscription (when is it due?)
  • Ensure we give a new SIM to people's park before the Calyx one stops

Any desired monthly meeting modifications?

• mai: when i get back in late october, im interested to have a goup time to work on things that is not the regular tuesday meeting
• juul: during the work jam meetings people still do intros which kind of sets the tone wrong i think--i would prefer to have the non-last-tuesday meetings be even more informal. maybe one person volunteers to welcome new folks.

When's the Meet-Up This Month?

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Trello Boards

• Comms Trello: https://trello.com/invite/b/f3ugMPNU/94033ee6c2cef93fc1b1637b727c902a/sudo-mesh-communications
• Node Mounts: https://trello.com/invite/b/DtzngKaM/49e1c21fc9da199fcdeceb8623b5117a/node-mounts
• Bugs & Technical: Github: https://peoplesopen.net/issues, https://peoplesopen.net/learn/development/
• Internal Logistics & Bureaucracy Trello: https://trello.com/invite/b/LzVQlW3X/1bb8bd543c8633688175365d2554c2c2/internal-logistics-bureaucracy-brainstorms

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