Mesh/5 December 2013

Attendees

• Marc, Deekoo, Jeremy, Jenny, JC, Ardeen, Daniel, Scott, David

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

Notes

• Oakland Public Library networks are open, we hope to connect the mesh to them
• QoS filtering runs into network neutrality issues

Reportbacks

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

Next Steps

• 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

Resources

• 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

Action Items

• 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

Linkdump

• http://www.seattlewireless.net/PeeringAgreement - FreeNetworks Peering Agreement
• Free Networks Directory: http://freenetworks.org/freenetworks-members-affiliates.shtml (pretty outdated)
• MetaMesh (Pittsburgh) - http://www.metamesh.org/vision.html
• Wireless Communities Directory (Personal Telco Project) - https://personaltelco.net/wiki/WirelessCommunities
• SoCal Free Network - http://www.socalfreenet.org/projects
• Wireless DB Project - http://www.nodedb.com/index.php
• A Second Look At Citywide WiFi (Wall Street Journal) - http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB122840941903779747
  • Investigating Earthlink
• Harbor freight 20 ft flagpole http://www.harborfreight.com/20-ft-telescoping-flag-pole-kit-95598.html