Mesh/UserResearch/Interviews/LOLspace

Jen-Mei Wu is a co-founder of LOL (Liberating Ourselves Locally), an Oakland makerspace run by and for people of color (POC) in East Oakland. Last week, LOL celebrated their 1-year anniversary of opening a space, and I got a chance to meet the other co-founders and chat about mesh and mapping. Jen-Mei and Cass, another organizer, were already familiar with 510pen - one of the first nodes was installed at the Bikery down the block - and eager to expand the network to LOL and surrounding neighborhoods.

Notes, to be written up

• LOL draws local, longtime activists and youth communities.
• Cass and Youth Revolution
  • SOL high school interns and food justice education / mapping
• Workshops on Group Self-Defense and How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse.
• Interested in mapping resources for resilience
  • Meetup / regrouping locations
  • Solar backups for the mesh
  • Water, food etc;