[Mesh] Introduction

Tue Jul 2 15:48:57 PDT 2013

Since everyone is introducing themselves:

Hi, I'm Marc Juul. I'm excited about decentralized and heterarchical
structures, both in the form of networks and in systems for organization. I
co-founded two hackerspaces (sudo room and labitat) and two biohacking
groups (biologigaragen and counter culture labs). I have skills in the
fields of network programming, web programming, digital electronics and
synthetic biology (not yet sure how that last one will be relevant to the
mesh but I'm sure we'll find a way!). I'm very interested in crypto, and
its application in mesh networks.

I've been wanting to learn about radio, both the details of wifi and the
fundamentals of radio transmitters and receivers, for several years and I'm
delighted to have the time to really dig into this field.

I want to take this chance to announce that we also have a small sub-group
within the mesh group that is playing with software defined radios and
designing and building our own radios for digital communications. If you're
interested in hanging out and poking at that kind of stuff then speak up!

Personally, I'd like to see us not just build a successful wifi mesh that
is run for and by the local community, but also begin improving on the
state of the art of mesh software and hardware.

-- 
Marc

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Thomas Dudley <trd3r at virginia.edu> wrote:

> Hey all!
>
> Just wanted to piggyback on this to introduce myself.
>
> I'm Thomas. I live in SF. My work isn't on the technical side - I've been
> working as a management consultant for the past three years and in the Fall
> I'll be heading down to Stanford to work on a PhD in organizational
> behavior. Outside of work I've been volunteering on the board of a local
> non-profit where I've learned a lot about fundraising methods for small
> organizations. I think this is an awesome project and I'm excited to help
> out in any way I can - either through sharing business/non-profit
> experiences, helping to set up a node (anyone in PA? looks pretty far from
> the current center of mass), fundraising, mundane tasks, basically anything
> that's useful.
>
> Unfortunately I haven't been able to make it to a meet up yet - I'm going
> to do my best to make that happen soon but unfortunately the next few weeks
> look pretty busy for me.
>
> Nice to meet you!
>
> Thomas
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Marc Juul <marcjc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Steve Berl <steveberl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I think I just added it, but it isn't showing on the map. Is there some
>>> moderator step or something?
>>>
>>
>> It sends a verification email to the email address you put in, and only
>> shows up once you click the link in the email you (should have) received.
>>
>> --
>> Marc
>>
>>
>>>
>>> -steve
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Miguel Vargas <unroar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Steve,
>>>>
>>>> Could you mark your house on http://meshmap.sudoroom.org/ as a
>>>> potential node site?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Steve Berl <steveberl at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> As long as we are doing introductions, I'm Steve Berl. I'm kind of new
>>>>> to wireless and mesh stuff, but I do have a lot of IP network experience,
>>>>> having worked at Cisco for 16 years. I sort of specialized there in ways to
>>>>> make deployment, configuration, and management easy and cheap.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm also getting into the RF side of things, doing a bit of amateur
>>>>> radio astronomy with RTL-SDR, and turns out I really like building antennas
>>>>> of various kinds, so if we want to whip up some high gain yagis or
>>>>> cantennas, I'm up for it.
>>>>>
>>>>> I also live in Piedmont partway up the hill, and from my roof I have
>>>>> have line of site to all of Lake Merritt and a chunk of downtown Oakland,
>>>>> Emeryville, and into Berkeley. The roof has easy access, and it is easy to
>>>>> drop cables down from there into my basement/machineroom, so for testing
>>>>> those long point to point links...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -steve
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm Adrian. I'm a wifi hacker. I worked at Qualcomm Atheros for 18
>>>>>> months on various open and closed source wifi things. I'm also the
>>>>>> FreeBSD wireless developer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My main focus is FreeBSD but I know a bunch of stuff about openwrt and
>>>>>> the Linux wireless stack and Atheros drivers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Right now I'm working on FreeBSD support for the latest Atheros chips
>>>>>> and SoCs (the AR933x and AR934x stuff), as well as finishing off the
>>>>>> 11n support for TDMA and 802.11s mesh.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I came along to the mesh meetup because being a developer of this
>>>>>> stuff in a vacuum is a bit silly. I've been looking for local groups
>>>>>> who are interested in wifi and want to do strange things with it. This
>>>>>> group seems to be that way inclined. :-) I'm also looking for
>>>>>> victims^Whelpers to test out the long-distance side of this TDMA
>>>>>> support in FreeBSD. It's supposed to work up to dozens of miles, but I
>>>>>> just don't have access to places to mount equipment to test. I'm
>>>>>> hoping that I can find some people here who are willing to help me
>>>>>> with this. I can provide the wireless hardware; all I need here is an
>>>>>> internet hookup and places to mount stuff.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm happy to help out any way I can.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you're all interested, I can do some talks on how this stuff works
>>>>>> and how long distance links work/don't work.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -adrian
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> -steve
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> -steve
>>>
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