[Mesh] Developer launch!

[Marc Juul]

As of last night, we've officially launched version 0.1.0 of the mesh
firmware, a.k.a. Snow Crash.

The plan is to have ~20 people with networking skills run nodes from
their homes for 1-2 months and report any remaining issues. We'll then
fix those bugs and do a wider release of ~60 more nodes.

What's currently working:

  1. Sharing limited Internet bandwidth with peoplesopen.net
  2. Private access point with no bandwidth limit and mesh access
  3. Automatic node meshing with batman-adv
  4. Simplified web admin interface that lets node-owners change
bandwidth sharing settings and passwords.
  5. Automated configuration of new nodes using easy web interface.
  6. Automatic printing of stickers with instructions and default
generated passwords.

To those of you who have already taken nodes home, here are a few notes:

  1. sudo mesh has root access to your nodes since we manage updates
per default. If you want to manage your own node and don't want sudo
mesh to have access, you can disable our root access by removing
/etc/dropbear/authorized_keys on your node.

  2. Please report any bugs on our github. If you know which
repository the bug pertains to, then go to the issue tracker for that
repository. If you aren't sure, then just add the bug here:

  https://github.com/sudomesh/sudowrt-firmware/issues

A compiled version of the firmware is available here:

http://build.sudomesh.org:8080/latest_images/atheros/

Keep in mind that the nodes have to be configured using the
node-configurator after being flashed with that firmware and that the
firmware only trusts sudomesh SSL certificates. We'll release a less
secure version for developers who just want to play around as soon as
possible. For now you can configure your nodes at sudo room with the
help of one of the core team.

In the following is a list of the repositories directly relevant to
this release of the firmware. All of these repositories have been
tagged with "sudowrt-0.1.0" so you can get the exact versions used in
the release.

The sudowrt firmware and build scripts (based on openwrt and the work
of wlan slovenja):

https://github.com/sudomesh/sudowrt-firmware

The sudowrt packages repository:

https://github.com/sudomesh/sudowrt-packages

The web admin interface:

https://github.com/sudomesh/luci-app-peopleswifi

The mDNS and DNS-SD client:

https://github.com/sudomesh/mdnssd-min

The node database:

https://github.com/sudomesh/node-database

The node configurator:

https://github.com/sudomesh/node-configurator

Sticker printing support for the node configurator:

https://github.com/sudomesh/ql570

The node configurator client:

https://github.com/sudomesh/node-configurator-client

The wlan slovenja tunneldigger (very slightly modified):

https://github.com/sudomesh/tunneldigger

Mesh the planet!

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marc/juul