[Mesh] WiFi for homeless encampments

[Jenny Ryan]

City council will be voting on a proposed shelter crisis declaration on Oct
3rd - intro of the proposal is taking place at tonight's city council
meeting (see the proposal here:
http://oakland.legistar.com/gateway.aspx?M=F&ID=ada81c66-e877-4606-9713-d77232319b2e.pdf
). This would ensure a cessation of evictions of camps in sanctioned
spaces. I know they just shut down the camp at San Pablo & Grand, and
purportedly the one at 6th & Brush this morning. We could definitely reach
the folks under the overpass at 35th & Adeline/Peralta.

However, First They Came for the Homeless at the Here&There signs is
sanctioned by Berkeley, and we have contacts there requesting a node. We
may be able to reach them from a friend's house slightly northwest. I will
follow up inabit.

On Sep 19, 2017 4:01 PM, <cowlicks at riseup.net> wrote:

> (disclaimer: I'm out of town for two weeks, I'd like to work on this
> when I get back)
>
> Hey y'all, would anyone be interested in trying to provide WiFi to
> homeless encampments?
>
> I realize right now we are focused on building the  network, but when we
> are ready, I think serving homeless encampments would be nice because it
> would be a great service for people with (potentially) a low cost for
> us. There are several encampments around Oakland that are in strategic
> locations for nodes to, like MLK and Grand, Broadway and 7th.
>
> Does anyone know of good potential locations?
>
> Cheers,
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