[sudo-announce] Fwd: [Mesh] Sudo Mesh meeting tonight and summer's end update!

[Matthew Senate]

Folks,

Please rejoice in this amazing update by Jenny Ryan on the progress of the
Sudo Mesh project launching the People's Open Network:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jenny Ryan <tunabananas at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:05 PM
Subject: [Mesh] Sudo Mesh meeting tonight and summer's end update!
To: "mesh at lists.sudoroom.org" <mesh at lists.sudoroom.org>


It's been a crazily active summer - apologies for the lack of updates! Sudo
Room (and by extension, Sudo Mesh) has relocated to the Omni Oakland Commons
<http://omni-oakland.org> at 4799 Shattuck. We're excited to be a founding
member collective among an array of groups that have moved in together to
create a radical commons in Oakland.

If you've been wanting to plug in and help out, or simply reconnect to the
group, tonight is a great night to come by and check out the new space!


*Announcements*
* We'll be having our monthly general meeting today, starting at 7:30pm at
Sudo Room. Please add to the agenda! - https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudomesh
* Juul, MaxB and Alex have been working hard on crushing bugs and levelling
up our mesh firmware. We've deployed a test network within the Omni
building and they are successfully meshing as I type!  \o/
* We've procured a 75 foot antenna tower that will be mounted in West
Oakland to become a core relay spot for routing traffic on the mesh.
* Noemie has put together a fantastic sudomesh / people's open net video
and is currently soliciting feedback. Check it out @
http://youtu.be/qva1SQSBDyE
* Paige made a rad flyer design and two versions of the flyer for a)
general ways to participate in the project and b) promoting upcoming info
sessions. Check them out here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Flyers
* Stickers!! The round 'Mesh the Planet' and rectangular PeoplesOpen.Net
stickers have been printed and can be procured at sudoroom (atio the white
shelves next to the staircase) and/or one of our Tuesday/Thursday meetups!

*Code* - *so much code this summer!!*
* Juul created ipk-builder: https://github.com/sudomesh/ipk-builder
* MaxB, Ron, and Juul have been updating the service browser:
https://github.com/sudomesh/service-browser
* Juul, MaxB, and Alex reengineered the node-configurator:
https://github.com/sudomesh/makenode
* MaxB, Alex and Matt fixed the exitnode
<https://github.com/sudomesh/exitnode>
* MaxB created sudowrt-firmware-images
<https://github.com/sudomesh/sudowrt-firmware-images> for temporary storage
of firmware builds
* Matt added a patch to sudowrt-firmware
<https://github.com/sudomesh/sudowrt-firmware>
* Alex and MaxB have been fixing our fork of tunneldigger
<https://github.com/sudomesh/tunneldigger>
* MaxB fixed sudowrt-packages <https://github.com/sudomesh/sudowrt-packages>
* Juul updated ubi-flasher <https://github.com/sudomesh/ubi-flasher>
* Juul added fixes to meshnode-database
<https://github.com/sudomesh/meshnode-database>
* Matt created svg-animations <https://github.com/sudomesh/svg-animations>
for mesh presentations

*Wiki*
* Tunabananas created Mesh/Flyers <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Flyers>
and uploaded Paige's flyers
* ChrisJ updated Mesh/Monitoring <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Flyers>
and created Mesh/Icinga <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Icinga_2>
* Matt added instructions to Mesh/Firmware/Flash
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware/Flash>
* Jul added to Mesh/Hardware Support
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Hardware_support>
* GMeader created the page Mesh/San Francisco
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/San_Francisco> and added to Mesh/Marketing
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Marketing>
* MaxB added sticker images to Mesh/Stickers
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Stickers>
* ChrisJ created Mesh/Sensu <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Sensu_Page>
* Tunabananas added recent research on broadband access in Oakland to
Mesh/Oakland <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Oakland>
* Tunabananas added some months worth of meeting minutes to Mesh/Minutes
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Minutes>
* Jwentwistle added a bunch of documentation to Mesh/BATMAN-adv
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/BATMAN-adv>
* Jwentwistle and Tunabananas cleaned up the main Mesh
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh> page!
* Jwentwistle moved Mesh/MeshApps primarily to Mesh/Distributed Services
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Distributed_Services>
* Jwentwistle created and added slides to Mesh/Presentation
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Presentation>
* Jwentwistle created Mesh/User Guide
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/User_Guide>
* Jwentwistle created Mesh/Technical Overview
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Technical_Overview>
* MaxB checked some stuff out <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Checkouts>
* Matt added some diagrams to Mesh/Diagrams
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Diagrams>
* Jwentwistle added bandwidth shaping details to Mesh/Firmware
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware>
* MaxB added some ideas for our box of crappy routers to Mesh/Inventory
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Inventory>
* Tunabananas wrote a new post on Mesh/Blog
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Blog>
* Aep added to Mesh/MeshApps <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/MeshApps>

*To Dos*
* Test current mesh setup in the Omni building
* Create online ordering system and shipping label automation
* Create 'How to Care for Your Node' guides
* Outreach to spaces that can host info sessions and presentations
* Work on local apps and services that will run on the mesh!
* More at: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/ToDos
** Please update the list above with specific tasks!

*Help Out!*
* Come by our weekly hacknights, Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 7:30pm
at Sudo Room <https://sudoroom.org>
* Contribute research, ideas, designs to our wiki: https://sudomesh.org
* Contribute to the code: https://github.com/sudomesh
* Donate hardware and equipment! <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Wishlist>
* Give a small weekly donation: https://www.gittip.com/sudomesh


*Recommended Reading*
* Oakland's Sudo Mesh looks to counter censorship and the digital divide
with a mesh network:
http://techpresident.com/news/25200/oakland-sudo-mesh-counter-censorship-digital-divide-mesh-net
* It's Time for Open, Shared Home Wi-Fi (Re/Code):
http://recode.net/2014/08/05/its-time-for-shared-open-home-wi-fi/

See y'all tonight!
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

"To define is to kill. To suggest is to create."
-Stéphane Mallarmé
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