<div dir="ltr"><div>Folks,</div><div><br></div><div>Please rejoice in this amazing update by Jenny Ryan on the progress of the Sudo Mesh project launching the People's Open Network:</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Jenny Ryan</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tunabananas@gmail.com">tunabananas@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:05 PM<br>Subject: [Mesh] Sudo Mesh meeting tonight and summer's end update!<br>To: "<a href="mailto:mesh@lists.sudoroom.org">mesh@lists.sudoroom.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:mesh@lists.sudoroom.org">mesh@lists.sudoroom.org</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>It's been a crazily active summer - apologies for the lack of updates! Sudo Room (and by extension, Sudo Mesh) has relocated to the <a href="http://omni-oakland.org" target="_blank">Omni Oakland Commons</a> at 4799 Shattuck. We're excited to be a founding member collective among an array of groups that have moved in together to create a radical commons in Oakland. <br><br></div><div>If you've been wanting to plug in and help out, or simply reconnect to the group, tonight is a great night to come by and check out the new space!<br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Announcements<br></b></div><div>* We'll be having our monthly general meeting today, starting at 7:30pm at Sudo Room. Please add to the agenda! - <a href="https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudomesh" target="_blank">https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudomesh</a><br></div><div>* Juul, MaxB and Alex have been working hard on crushing bugs and levelling up our mesh firmware. We've deployed a test network within the Omni building and they are successfully meshing as I type!  \o/<br>* We've procured a 75 foot antenna tower that will be mounted in West Oakland to become a core relay spot for routing traffic on the mesh.<br></div><div>* Noemie has put together a fantastic sudomesh / people's open net video and is currently soliciting feedback. Check it out @ <a href="http://youtu.be/qva1SQSBDyE" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/qva1SQSBDyE</a><br></div><div>* Paige made a rad flyer design and two versions of the flyer for a) general ways to participate in the project and b) promoting upcoming info sessions. Check them out here: <a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Flyers" target="_blank">https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Flyers</a><br>* Stickers!! The round 'Mesh the Planet' and rectangular PeoplesOpen.Net
 stickers have been printed and can be procured at sudoroom (atio the 
white shelves next to the staircase) and/or one of our Tuesday/Thursday 
meetups!<br></div><div><br><b>Code</b> - <b>so much code this summer!!</b><br></div><div>* Juul created ipk-builder: <a href="https://github.com/sudomesh/ipk-builder" target="_blank">https://github.com/sudomesh/ipk-builder</a><br></div><div>* MaxB, Ron, and Juul have been updating the service browser: <a href="https://github.com/sudomesh/service-browser" target="_blank">https://github.com/sudomesh/service-browser</a><br><div>* Juul, MaxB, and Alex reengineered the node-configurator: <a href="https://github.com/sudomesh/makenode" target="_blank">https://github.com/sudomesh/makenode</a><br></div>* MaxB, Alex and Matt fixed the <a href="https://github.com/sudomesh/exitnode" target="_blank">exitnode</a><br></div><div>* MaxB created <a href="https://github.com/sudomesh/sudowrt-firmware-images" target="_blank">sudowrt-firmware-images</a> for temporary storage of firmware builds<br></div><div>* Matt added a patch to <a href="https://github.com/sudomesh/sudowrt-firmware" target="_blank">sudowrt-firmware</a><br></div><div>* Alex and MaxB have been fixing our fork of <a href="https://github.com/sudomesh/tunneldigger" target="_blank">tunneldigger</a><br></div><div>* MaxB fixed <a href="https://github.com/sudomesh/sudowrt-packages" target="_blank">sudowrt-packages</a><br></div><div>* Juul updated <a href="https://github.com/sudomesh/ubi-flasher" target="_blank">ubi-flasher</a><br></div><div>* Juul added fixes to <a href="https://github.com/sudomesh/meshnode-database" target="_blank">meshnode-database</a><br></div><div>* Matt created <a href="https://github.com/sudomesh/svg-animations" target="_blank">svg-animations</a> for mesh presentations<br></div><div><br></div><b>Wiki</b><br></div><div>* Tunabananas created <a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Flyers" target="_blank">Mesh/Flyers</a> and uploaded Paige's flyers<br></div><div>* ChrisJ updated <a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Flyers" target="_blank">Mesh/Monitoring</a> and created <a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Icinga_2" target="_blank">Mesh/Icinga</a><br></div><div>* Matt added instructions to <a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware/Flash" target="_blank">Mesh/Firmware/Flash</a><br></div><div>* Jul added to <a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Hardware_support" target="_blank">Mesh/Hardware Support</a><br></div><div>* GMeader created the page <a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/San_Francisco" target="_blank">Mesh/San Francisco</a> and added to <a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Marketing" target="_blank">Mesh/Marketing</a><br></div><div>* MaxB added sticker images to <a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Stickers" target="_blank">Mesh/Stickers</a><br></div><div>* ChrisJ created <a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Sensu_Page" target="_blank">Mesh/Sensu</a><br></div><div>* Tunabananas added recent research on broadband access in Oakland to <a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Oakland" target="_blank">Mesh/Oakland</a><br></div><div>* Tunabananas added some months worth of meeting minutes to <a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Minutes" target="_blank">Mesh/Minutes</a><br></div><div>* Jwentwistle added a bunch of documentation to <a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/BATMAN-adv" target="_blank">Mesh/BATMAN-adv</a><br></div><div>* Jwentwistle and Tunabananas cleaned up the main <a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh" target="_blank">Mesh</a> page!<br></div><div>* Jwentwistle moved Mesh/MeshApps primarily to <a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Distributed_Services" target="_blank">Mesh/Distributed Services</a><br></div><div>* Jwentwistle created and added slides to <a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Presentation" target="_blank">Mesh/Presentation</a><br></div><div>* Jwentwistle created <a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/User_Guide" target="_blank">Mesh/User Guide</a><br></div><div>* Jwentwistle created <a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Technical_Overview" target="_blank">Mesh/Technical Overview</a><br></div><div>* MaxB <a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Checkouts" target="_blank">checked some stuff out</a><br></div><div>* Matt added some diagrams to <a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Diagrams" target="_blank">Mesh/Diagrams</a><br></div><div>* Jwentwistle added bandwidth shaping details to <a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware" target="_blank">Mesh/Firmware</a><br></div><div>* MaxB added some ideas for our box of crappy routers to <a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Inventory" target="_blank">Mesh/Inventory</a><br></div><div>* Tunabananas wrote a new post on <a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Blog" target="_blank">Mesh/Blog</a><br></div><div>* Aep added to <a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/MeshApps" target="_blank">Mesh/MeshApps</a><br></div></div><div><br><b></b></div><b>To Dos</b><br>* Test current mesh setup in the Omni building<br></div><div>* Create online ordering system and shipping label automation<br></div><div>* Create 'How to Care for Your Node' guides<br></div><div>* Outreach to spaces that can host info sessions and presentations<br></div><div>* Work on local apps and services that will run on the mesh!<br></div><div>* More at: <a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/ToDos" target="_blank">https://sudoroom.org/wiki/<span>Mesh</span>/ToDos</a><br>
** Please update the list above with specific tasks!<br><br><b></b></div><b>Help Out!</b><br>* Come by our weekly hacknights, Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 7:30pm at Sudo Room <<a href="https://sudoroom.org" target="_blank">https://sudoroom.org</a>><br>
* Contribute research, ideas, designs to our wiki: <a href="https://sudomesh.org" target="_blank">https://sudomesh.org</a><br>
* Contribute to the code: <a href="https://github.com/sudomesh" target="_blank">https://github.com/sudomesh</a><br>
* Donate hardware and equipment! <<a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Wishlist" target="_blank">https://sudoroom.org/wiki/<span>Mesh</span>/Wishlist</a>><br>
* Give a small weekly donation: <a href="https://www.gittip.com/sudomesh" target="_blank">https://www.gittip.com/sudomesh</a><b><br><br></b></div><b>Recommended Reading<br></b></div>* Oakland's Sudo Mesh looks to counter censorship and the digital divide with a mesh network: <a href="http://techpresident.com/news/25200/oakland-sudo-mesh-counter-censorship-digital-divide-mesh-net" target="_blank">http://techpresident.com/news/25200/oakland-sudo-mesh-counter-censorship-digital-divide-mesh-net</a> <b><br></b><div><div><div><div><div>* It's Time for Open, Shared Home Wi-Fi (Re/Code): <a href="http://recode.net/2014/08/05/its-time-for-shared-open-home-wi-fi/" target="_blank">http://recode.net/2014/08/05/its-time-for-shared-open-home-wi-fi/</a><br></div><div><div><br clear="all"><div>See y'all tonight!<br clear="all"></div><div><div>Jenny<br>
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