[Mesh] Meeting Minutes 2/7

[mark burdett]

Thanks for the notes!
Will folks be there next Thursday? Valentine's Day? Bring chocolate ;)

--mark B.


On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Jenny Ryan <tunabananas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks to all who came by tonight!
>
> Cross-posted to the sudo room wiki here: http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh
>
> ==Attendees==
> Alcides, Marc, Jenny, JC, David, George, Miguel
>
> ==Notes==
> *Ham Radio Licenses allow for broadcasting up to 2.4Ghz
> **Free class to procure ham radio license in one day at Noisebridge March
> 17th
> **Has to be amateur / not paid-for services
> **Can't be encrypted (What does that mean for HTTPS?)
> **Definitely an area that needs further research!
> *Hook into Downtown Berkeley WiFi?
> *Hackerspace Darknets (accessible to other hackerspaces)
> *CJDNS
> *Bounce a signal off the moon / other satellites
> *Direct connect several nodes (Andrew's place/Vagabond Ballroom; Mark B's
> House, Adeline House, Sudo Room, Media Alliance, node in East Oakland)
> *Need for directional antennas
> **Should we make antennas?
> **Lasers?
> ***10 mbps (RONJA)
> ***Not good in the rain
>
> *Location triangulation
>
> *Suggestion: East Bay Communications Resilience Group
>
> *Software-defined radios
> *Low-bandwidth radio receivers
> *Boats in the bay could receive long-distance comms, for instance
>
> *OpenBTS
> *MonkeyBrains as backhaul for a mesh network
> *Burning Man Community / San Francisco dark fiber opps
>
> *JC - mobile ad hoc mesh network
> **CB Radio backpacks for berkeley protest peacekeepers as inspiration for
> mobile ad hoc networks
> **Starts with communication (voice, over data)
>
> *Solar power system for mesh box and mobile phone
>
> *Pay phones as mesh nodes for anonymous hot-spotting
>
> *Peet's running on a mesh backbone?
>
> *[http://openmesh.com Open Mesh] - uses batman-adv, NG firmware
> *ALIX
> *AIS - boat radio communications
> *Emergency Broadcast Band - airwaves set aside
> *Cognitive Radio to detect currently broadcasting signals
>
> *[http://www.accrc.org/ Alameda Country Computer Resource Center]
>
> ==Projects==
> *Mobile ad hoc networks
> **4GB of data to sync across the nodes
> **Using git to update the nodes
> **People moving around feeding the network
> *[http://thepyre.org/wiki/Mycelia Mycelia] - geospatial mapping via
> decentralized databases for inventory management, project and skill
> matching (talk to marc juul and jenny if you want to work on this project!)
> *[http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Router_Reuse Router Reuse Program] - Proposed
> sudo room project :D
> *DC415 - DefCon mesh in SF
>
> ==Action Items==
> *Inventory / Donations of hardware
> **Open call to hackerspaces for surplus routers / wifi devices
> **ANTAC wifi cable modems
> *Base repository of information
> **See for instance The Pyre: http://thepyre.org/wiki (talk to jenny)
> *Get a mesh node running at sudo room!
> *Field survey trip to visit existing nodes
> *Box in a Bag for activists
>
>
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