Mesh/13 February 2014

Feb 13th Hacknight

Attendees

• Jenny, Luis, Jeremy, Evan, Daniel, Juul, Deekoo, Jacob, Noemie, Simone, Ronald, ChrisJ, Matt, Danny

Updates

• Jenny to finalize Board of Directors, wants to sketch out a road map and a intro flyer
• Luis working on a splash page (for the fake captive portal)
• Jeremy sent out draft of business cards, wants feedback
• Daniel working on the video
• Juul finished up the firmware last week! Finishing auto-printing and writing lots of documentation!!
• Deekoo creating a system for replicatable builds
• Jacob working on outreach - Chris Mitchel - Telecommunications as Commons - fiber networks in the US are generally public utilities and very conservative, unwilling to try new things. However thought our project could work well with a public service utility.
• Noemie is working on our video
• Juul continuing work on the Freestore.cc - Github repo here: https://github.com/juul/freestore.cc
• ChrisJ got his node running last week through the node configurator!
• Matt to focus on wiki

Notes

• BART dark fiber as the backbone, bootstrapped by a venture-backed for-profit
• People buying infrastructure themselves
• Network Commons License
• How do we deal with security?
  • We route traffic through a VPN using tunneldigger
  • Someone suggested running a VPN on Amazon web services
  • Could run OpenVPN on the exit node
  • Could offer folks to go through Tor once reaching the exit node
  • What kind of services/companies should we support?
  • Deekoo: Personally hates Amazon, but software should be vendor-neutral. We have to assume any exit node is potentially surveillable anywhere
  • Ronald recommends Docker.io. Suggests maybe incorporating in Iceland?
  • Marc and Jenny suggest offering options for nearby, faster service or longer-latency,
    • CYOEN
  • Luis uses AirVPN (based in Italy), they keep no logs
  • We could also run our own servers, and booby-trap them!
  • Several folks mistrustful of Amazon
• Emphasis on our values
• ISP Cooperative
  • Reach out to SELC and EFF

Finalize Board of Directors:

    Accepted: MaxB, ChrisJ, Marc, Jenny, Matt, Jeremy, Luis, Jake, Lilia, Jacob(?)
    Awaiting Response: Rhodey, Jake, Daniel jake responds OK

ToDos

• Ping Eric Dynamic

Gratuitous Link DUmp

• Free Store repo: https://github.com/juul/freestore.cc
• Oakland Tech Exchange West: http://www.otxwest.org/
• MaidSafe: http://maidsafe.net/
• Docker.io: https://www.docker.io/ -
• AirVPN: https://airvpn.org/ - probably too large when compared to tunneldigger
• Status of Meraki Sparkys: https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Sparky