[Mesh] Introduction

Tue Jul 2 19:52:11 PDT 2013

Hi everyone! I'm Alcides also known as Vapor One or "voe." I'm a graffiti
artist slash rhyme spitter turned grocery clerk turned activist. My
interest in mesh began late last year as a way to create self-maintained
networks that don't rely on Internet.

My current activities include designing low-bandwidth browser/protocol
spec, marketing the mesh network concept, creating copyleft art, and
attempting to set up services such as media streams to run on mesh. I hang
out on IRC (EFnet, Freenode, HypeIRC) as 'voe.'

Also currently setting up beaglebone blacks as nodes on Hyperboria with
hopes to create a local mesh in my neighborhood (Excelsior). I love all
protocols and I love all mesh efforts and communities!

Also interested in learning more about radio comms. I'm not much on the
technical side, but I tend to learn quickly when pointed to the right
keywords and/or examples.

I'm happy to meet everyone and happy to support anything mesh!

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Marc Juul <marcjc at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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