[Mesh] Meeting Minutes 7/4

[Jenny Ryan]

Minutes as always reposted to the wiki:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/04_July_2013*

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Action Items in bold below. Please take on action items and reply to this
thread accordingly! :)*
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July 4th Meeting Minutes*

Welcome to the Oakland Mesh Meeting: Freedom Edition.
... liberating ourselves from the telecoms since January 2013!

*= New Action Items =*
** Reach out to the Berkeley folks to aim to reach the Internet Archive
Richmond node (jenny)*
** Blog post on our setup of the first two nodes and describing the
hardware we received (jenny)*
** Let's make a flier! Who can help? (jenny will start a thread on the list)
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** Next reportback on an active mesh - Jenny on OTI/Commotion*
** Research resilient ethernet cable (Adrian?)
**  Tune the OpenWRT settings on the new nodes for RTS / CTS and ACK timing
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** Name brainstorm! Add to the "Naming" page here:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Naming*
** Website (contingent on name)*
** Splash page design*


= Attendees =
* Max B, Juul, Jenny, Jordan, Mitar, Adrian

= Announcements =
* Crowdfunding campaign is doing great with 26 days remaining: $2,053.00
(WePay), $56.92 (BitCoin)
* Juul has started putting together bylaws for 501c3 status! -
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Bylaws
* International Community Wireless Summit in Berlin Oct. 2-4:
http://2013.wirelesssummit.org/

   - ** Jenny submitted a workshop proposal and applied for travel funding


= Report-backs =
* Mitar from wlan-slovenia:
    ** Must be strategic and have many nodes
    ** Abundance of fiber / connectivity
    ** Major difficulty was getting beyond the techies and reaching the
masses
    ** Primary selling point was to open wireless networks and choosing how
much of one's bandwidth they can share, enabling connectivity across the
whole city.
    ** Protected by connecting through a *VPN tunnel* to central servers.
    ** Get folks to deploy their own nodes - so they don't think of the
mesh as a service provided, but rather a DIY endeavor
    ** Lead by example, the village / neighborhood will follow
    ** Point of centralization is the two guys with root access to the
server who administer the nodes, firmware upgrades, etc (plz correct if
incorrect)
    ** Focus on scalability
    ** Made a simple GUI for indicating router and getting an image
instantly created for it

= Notes =
* Brainstorm on name for the mesh!
** COM - Cutting Out the Middleman
** OWN - Oakland Wireless Network
** Mitar recommends hacing the name by unaffiliated with the hackerspace
and non-geographically-specific
* Tax Status:
    ** 501(c)4 - non-tax-deductible
    ** 501(c)3 - can't do party politics (but can be political? - EFF is a
501(c)3!)
* Social pressure to allocate bandwidth to the mesh, sharing connectivity
* Adrian suggests, owning the first 100 nodes, with gradual replacement as
the network grows to a full-on decentralized model
* Our model as a 501c3 is to serve as a facilitator for the mesh.

= Old Action Items =
* Add your potential node to the map! - http://meshmap.sudoroom.org (we now
have 23 potential nodes. keep em comin!)
* Get batman-adv running at Hearth node, mesh with LiveLabs node
* Find some tall rooftops for Adrian to test TDMA point-to-multipoint links
* Research 501(c)x statuses:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Tax_Structure_Research - Marc did.

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Jenny
http://jennyryan.net
http://thepyre.org
http://thevirtualcampfire.org
http://technomadic.tumblr.com

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-Laurie Anderson

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 -Hannah Arendt

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