Mesh/11 July 2017

peoples open meeting - 11 july 2017

attendees

• mario, casandra, bullitt, grant, jehan, scott, marc, jenny, sierk, daniel, eve, david (came to BYOI), xnybre, tom, jorrit, lesley

updates

• jnny: OOC got a reply back from the IRS re: 2014 late taxes - we owe nothing! still waiting on 2015 (yay!)
  • once we hear back re: 2015, we can have a board vote re: taking over OOC's 501c3
• eve is now a *retired* sysadmin - party at jupiter, thursday night! (2181 Shattuck Ave Berkeley, CA 94704at Allston Way Downtown Berkeley)
• panel on the Mozilla / NSF WINS grant
  • up to $400K what spend money on? - hardware, bandwidth, hardware production, server costs
  • working prototype deadline is june 2018, design deadline
• daniel: 10 access points are up! installed many new data drops!
  • jenny: If anyone wants to help with cable management by the door. We're about to paint that whole area.
• the garden mesh has been logging data from a plant in ccl onto the server
• jorrit: moved next BYOI to 23rd of September
  • grant: proposed theme of 'off the grid'
• marc: sudo room doesn't have a whole lot of activitiy these days. maybe mesh should just take over more of sudo room
• discussion about whether we should or shouldn't lock the mesh area
  • rfid bracelets?
  • card swipe?
  • for now, jenny has a combo lock. will share code with the signal group (ask if you're not on it)
• psychz has shut down our exit server, demanding proof that we're not hosting the infringing content. setting up new exit server tonight and tomorrow.
• sonic is building out their own fiber - right now mostly in the mission - full gigabit, $70/month, sharing allowed
  • check sonic.net for coverage area if you know anyone in SF who might have line of site to the east bay

breakout groups

garden mesh

• mario, cassandra, jorrit, scott
• grant: realized that to get the garden nodes meshing, they'd all have to be woken up at the same time
• storage issue of storing all network info as well as all the sensor data

setting up new server

• juul, david, tom, eve, lesley

working on ipv6 support

• xnybre has experience, can help enable support for ipv6 on sudomesh home routers
• jehan, eve, grantu

action items

• add more folks to accounts@sudomesh (jorrit, scott, grant, jehan, ?)
• send notice to mesh list that exit server is down [jenny]
• provide proof for psychz.net (screenshot the output of 'ls -r' at root?)