[Mesh] Meeting Minutes 7/4

[Mitar]

Hi!

More about wlan slovenija network. Here is our node database system (we
developed):

http://nodes.wlan-si.net/

Blog:

http://wlan-si.net/en/blog/

Some posts I am proud about:

https://wlan-si.net/en/blog/2012/10/10/we-are-internationally-wireless/
https://wlan-si.net/en/blog/2012/09/30/new-painted-antennas/
https://wlan-si.net/en/blog/2012/09/30/diy-5ghz-dish-feed-and-inverted-bullet-m5-mounting/

We test long links even on January 2:

http://grow.wlan-si.net/wiki/Dogodki/2012/01/NewYearLinkTesting

More about long links:

http://grow.wlan-si.net/wiki/Dogodki/2011/07/WirelessLinkTestingDay#Wirelesslinktestingday

Otherwise, our software can be found here:

http://dev.wlan-si.net/

And please appreciate that there is content in English. :-) Blog posts
have to be translated manually from Slovenian for this to be. :-) Of
course many things are still not online in any form. Curse of active
people who don't have time to document. But if you do take time to
document and make blog posts, then you can brag around like me now. :-)


Mitar

> Minutes as always reposted to the wiki:
> https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/04_July_2013*
> 
> *
> Action Items in bold below. Please take on action items and reply to this
> thread accordingly! :)*
> *
> *
> 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)
> *
> ** 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
> *
> ** 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.
> 
> ---------
> Jenny
> http://jennyryan.net
> http://thepyre.org
> http://thevirtualcampfire.org
> http://technomadic.tumblr.com
> 
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> -Laurie Anderson
> 
> "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
>  -Hannah Arendt
> 
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> -Stéphane Mallarmé
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