[Mesh] Meeting Minutes 2/7

[Alcides Gutierrez]

I will very likely be there. Enjoyed last night's discussions. Hopefully
there's a node at sudoroom... :)

Alcides Gutierrez
http://e64.us
On Feb 8, 2013 11:49 AM, "mark burdett" <mark at 510pen.org> wrote:

> 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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