Mesh/21 February 2013

Attendees

Mark, Juul, Jenny, Bill, Miguel, Dres

Debrief from Saturday's field trip

• Replaced router at the Bikery in San Antonio (1) and Matt's house in Fruitvale (2)
• Installed new router at the Bikery's second location (in the same building as LOLspace) (3)
• Scoped out the rooftop situation at the LOL/SOL building

Research

• Bill did research on OLSR / routing protocols
• Juul did research on what's needed to do rooftop tests

Equipment Needs

• Binoculars w/ built-in compass
• Normal compasses if the above can't be procured
• Tripods for mounting antennas
• Wifi USB dongles
• Wifi measuring device (from Ubiquiti)
• Weather-resistent enclosures
• Walkie talkies!

Ideas

• Wifi-based microwave interference detector
• Ham certification gives you some privileges on the wifi frequencies (up to 50 watts!?)
• Alameda island mesh network attempt: http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.alameda
• We should assess wifi rane in crappy weather conditions
• Schools, libraries, city buildings

Needs Assessment

• How much equipment can we procure from donations?
• DD-WRT and OpenWRT compliance with various kinds of routers

Sudo Room Inventory

• OpenMesh MR500
• 1 Linksys WRT54GL v.1.1 (4 MB)
• 2 Linksys WAP54G v.3.1 (2 MB)

Action Items

• Research on outdoor weatherproof equipment
  • Jenny will talk to Commotion folks
• Work on OpenITP proposal.
• Work on proposal for OpenOakland / City of Oakland.