[DisasterRadio] Mozilla/NSF Grant Timeline & Action Items

Tue Oct 10 14:32:50 PDT 2017

I'd like to step up to be the team lead for the "Smart Community
Networks" application. I'll be at the meeting today.

On 2017-10-08 16:14, Jenny Ryan wrote:
> Looping in Blake, sorry i hadn't added you previously!
> 
> On Oct 5, 2017 2:28 PM, "Jenny Ryan" <tunabananas at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Greetings meshers,
>> 
>> Am posting this off-list as there are ~250 people on the sudomesh
>> mailing list and many of them will likely be competing for the same
>> grant. Also, I made a mailing list for Disaster Radio folks [1] as a
>> supplement to #disasterradio channel in Patchwork. Those who were on
>> the conference call last month have already been added, but feel
>> free to join if you'd like. Also started a hackpad for the Peoples
>> Open Network submission [2], plz add to it!
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> Timeline for the NSF/Mozilla WINS grant below, followed by action
>> items (plz read those if you intend to participate in either the
>> Disaster Radio or People's Open submissions):
>> 
>> INTENT TO APPLY (OCT 15TH):
>> I checked back on the 'Intent to Apply' form, which is due OCTOBER
>> 15TH, and noted that the only info they required was a contact name,
>> org name, org status, and which challenge the org is applying for -
>> 'Both' is an option, and I'm 100% confident that's what I submitted
>> back in August. According to the challenge rules, "Teams may submit
>> Submissions to both Challenges and may submit more than one
>> Submission per Challenge." So we're good on the Intent to Apply for
>> both People's Open and Disaster Radio.
>> 
>> 1023 NONPROFIT APPLICATION (MID-OCTOBER):
>> The next deadline is self-imposed, and that's getting Sudo Mesh's
>> 501c3 application in the mail ASAP - I am hoping by early next week,
>> but may be the following week since I'd like Jesse to review it and
>> sign the Power of Attorney form. It only took the IRS ~2-3 months to
>> send both Omni's and Sudo's exemption letters, so hopefully we'd get
>> ours by January, when the Stage 1 prizes are announced. I'll include
>> a letter for expedited treatment in the application, which lives
>> currently in the Sudo Mesh google drive and is nearly complete:
>> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4_Q7DQvNFT-MWx5bkI5MXVUYkU [3]
>> 
>> Design Concept Submission (Nov. 15):
>> 
>> All submissions must first apply to the Design Concept Stage, for
>> which we need to submit mockups, hardware & network diagrams, and
>> written documentation. Prizes (for $60K, $40K, $30K, and $10K[x7])
>> and projects eligible to move on to the Working Prototype Stage will
>> be announced in JANUARY 2018.
>> 
>> Working Prototype Submission (June 22):
>> If Mozilla deems our submission(s) eligible, we then need to submit
>> working proofs-of-concept by JUNE 22, 2018. For this they suggest
>> the following forms of documentation: Network test data, Video
>> demos, Photographic documentation, Software code, and Hardware
>> schematics. "Finalists during the Working Prototype Stage may be
>> required to provide live demos for judges and/or a public audience
>> at a Challenges Showcase in SUMMER 2018."
>> 
>> _"Prizes will be announced in or around AUGUST 2018. Finalists
>> during the Working Prototype Stage may be required to provide live
>> demos for judges and/or a public audience at a Challenges Showcase
>> in Summer 2018."_
>> 
>> ACTION ITEMS:
>> 1. Define teams: While we have a defined team for the Disaster Radio
>> project (for which we're applying to the Off-the-Grid Internet
>> Challenge [4]), we need to define a team for submission for the
>> People's Open Network (for which we're applying to the Smart
>> Community Networks Challenge [5]). Let's discuss who wants to
>> participate in the PON team at next Tuesday's meeting. Any
>> participant can be on multiple teams. I started a hackpad for the
>> PON submission here:
>> 
> https://hackmd.io/BwQwZgJiBMEGwFoDMSDGB2BAWArCAjAsAAzDAL4BGIAnCaiMcQKbFA==#
>> [2]
>> 
>> 2. Choose Team Leaders: Both projects will also need to consent to
>> someone who can serve as the Team Leader, essentially the point of
>> contact between Mozilla and the project. This is ideally someone
>> highly responsive to emails, organized and able to stay on top of
>> the various elements of the submissions. Happy to play this role for
>> either or both, and can think of a number of folks who'd make
>> excellent points of contact - just think it over and volunteer if
>> you have the spoons!
>> 
>> 3. Sudo Mesh board members - namely JAKE, LESLEY, MARC, ANDREW, AND
>> JORRITT - please write up 1-2 sentences describing your
>> 'qualifications' (eg degrees, work experience, notable projects)
>> into the spreadsheet I sent you yesterday [6] - it's a requirement
>> of the 1023 application.
>> 
>> 4. Everyone working on the grant team(s) should read through the
>> Application Submission Guide [7] to get a sense of what kind of
>> questions we need to respond to and documentation we'll need to
>> write up. Consider your strengths and interests and what role you'd
>> like to play - code dev, written documentation, use cases / user
>> stories, design, website, some combo of the above, etc. We've
>> already sorted roles for Disaster Radio - but ADD YOURSELF HERE IF
>> YOU'D LIKE TO WORK ON THE PEOPLES OPEN SUBMISSION AS WELL:
>> 
> https://hackmd.io/BwQwZgJiBMEGwFoDMSDGB2BAWArCAjAsAAzDAL4BGIAnCaiMcQKbFA==#
>> [2]
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> I'll propose we sesh on the Peoples Open grant submission as a
>> breakout session for next Tuesday's meeting and see if folks are
>> down to have an extended hackathon on it sometime in the next two
>> weeks.
>> 
>> And a reminder that Disaster Radio hacks on Monday evenings and to
>> register for Science Hack Day [8] for the weekend after this!
>> 
>> <3
>> 
>> Jenny
>> 
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>> "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories."
>> -Laurie Anderson
>> 
>> "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of
>> defining it."
>> -Hannah Arendt
>> 
>> "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create."
>> -Stéphane Mallarmé
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> 
> 
> Links:
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> [1] https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/disasterradio
> [2] https://hackmd.io/BwQwZgJiBMEGwFoDMSDGB2BAWArCAjAsAAzDAL4BGIAnCaiMcQKbFA==#
> [3] https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4_Q7DQvNFT-MWx5bkI5MXVUYkU
> [4] https://wirelesschallenge.mozilla.org/_assets/NSF-OffTheGrid.pdf
> [5] https://wirelesschallenge.mozilla.org/_assets/NSF-SmartCommunity.pdf
> [6]
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IwaVw_9gMHnDutAMEKnM0G0Pq7NbRENkVjsYZuqfBr4/edit#gid=0
> [7] https://assets.mofoprod.net/nsf/NSFWINSapplicationguide.pdf
> [8]
> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/science-hack-day-san-francisco-2017-registration-36948939272