[sudo-discuss] [OpenOakland Brigade] [OpenOakland] Community Wireless Networks Across America

[Tony Barreca]

There's an active Mesh Network project in Oakland once again, the central
locus of which is at Sudoroom.



On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:05 AM, howard dyckoff <howarddy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Most of the Mesh network activity was previously confined to SF.
>
> I think there was some activity in North Oakland 2-3 years back.
>
> If I recall correctly, the cells have to be within half a mile or a third
> of a mile of each other....  pls verify, I'm sure the range has increased
> gradually.
>
> And I think the min cost of a local neighborhood transmitter and antennae
> was between $500 and $1000 a few years ago.  I hope that pricing is better
> now.
>
> The problem, I think , is that the areas most in need of this have fewer
> and less successful neighborhood associations and fewer households that
> could afford to setup mesh nodes.
>
> That's unfortunate since this could provide really inexpensive internet
> access for everyone.
>
> I am sure "Business Improvement Districts" could be involved, but there
> are few of them operating in  East and West Oakland.  We'd need a big
> grant to cover those areas -- or a lot of neighborhood organizing.
>
> And we'd have to plan for some of the equipment being stolen.  As an
> example, the new library at 81st Ave, where we held an event earlier this
> year,  had many of its computers stolen a few weeks after it opened.
>
> But I don't want to be too negative here.  I would definitely support this
> effort.
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Eddie Tejeda <eddie at codeforamerica.org>wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone!
>>
>> Checkout this cool project by Preston Rhea, from Open Technology
>> Institute at the New America Foundation. He's thinking that Oakland will be
>> one of the pilot cities. There  are existing local mesh network projects in
>> the area, right? People know how those projects are doing? This could be a
>> collaborative opportunity.
>>
>>
>> http://crowdhitch.millennialtrain.co/campaign/detail/1330
>>
>>
>>  The project is to spread locally-managed community wireless mesh
>>> networks around the country. I'll teach local technologists and community
>>> organizers how to use regular Wi-Fi routers and free, open source software
>>> to build their own community Internet infrastructure.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> The project will use Commotion <http://commotionwireless.net/>, a free,
>>> open source software project designed to make it easy for anyone to set up
>>> their own mesh network. We'll share tools and methods for participatory
>>> technology pedagogy, and the routers that we set up together will remain
>>> with the locals to seed their own mesh networks. With these seeds spread,
>>> people in each city can continue to grow locally-managed Internet networks
>>> and spur innovation on a shared platform accessible to any resident.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Eddie A. Tejeda
>>  @eddietejeda
>> 2012 Fellow, Code for America
>>  http://codeforamerica.org
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