Greetings all,
As I have mentioned in the past there is a community mesh networking project starting to congeal just across the street from us in Mount Pleasant. The effort is being spearheaded by the Broadband Bridge (http://www.broadbandbridge.org/) and they're using the Commotion Wireless software from the New America Foundation (http://oti.newamerica.net/commotion_wireless_0).
As you can see, they already have six routers setup. I'd like to make HacDC number seven. I'm willing to pay for all the equipment out of pocket so that will not require a vote. Once the equipment has arrived, the next step would be to go up on the roof and install it. I'd like to do that next Saturday, April 7. I know that some of you have roof experience so I'd like to solicit advice on who to talk to and how to go about getting a router installed on the roof.
Once we have the router setup and configured, we can make a decision on whether or not we'd like to be a gateway node and provide internet access to mesh clients. That would require some work by our admin team (and possibly some additional equipment?) to securely segment and throttle the traffic. And of course that is an issue that would require a vote from the membership at an upcoming meeting.
Even without becoming a gateway node, I believe HacDC can offer value to the network and the community by helping to extend the mesh network and by developing/deploying mesh-only community-centric web services.
HacDC's own mesh networking project, Project Byzantium, is technologically similar and I see the opportunity for a very symbiotic relationship here. At the upcoming Project Byzantium Sprint this weekend we will discuss extending our current Byzantium Linux distro to support the protocols used but the Mount Pleasant community mesh, as well as software services we could develop or deploy which might enhance the value of a local/community network.
I'm very excited about this! Let's get it done.
-- Charles N Wyble @charlesnw cha...@knownelement.com (818) 280-7059 Building a cost effective, open, secure bit moving platform for tomorrows default free zone.
What gear would you use?
As you can see, they already have six routers setup. I'd like to make HacDC number seven. I'm willing to pay for all the equipment out of pocket so that will not require a vote. Once the equipment has arrived, the next step would be to go up on the roof and install it. I'd like to do that next Saturday, April 7. I know that some of you have roof experience so I'd like to solicit advice on who to talk to and how to go about getting a router installed on the roof.
I'm eager to see how decisions in this regard are reached. FNF is interested in how governance models emerge for various networks.
Once we have the router setup and configured, we can make a decision on whether or not we'd like to be a gateway node and provide internet access to mesh clients. That would require some work by our admin team (and possibly some additional equipment?) to securely segment and throttle the traffic. And of course that is an issue that would require a vote from the membership at an upcoming meeting.
Absolutely!
Even without becoming a gateway node, I believe HacDC can offer value to the network and the community by helping to extend the mesh network and by developing/deploying mesh-only community-centric web services.
It's a big decision. Focus limited resources on building a platform for release, or get involved in operating a network. FNF is looking to help operators with a variety of horizontal resources (such as ticketing/monitoring/backups/security etc). This will hopefully greatly lower the barrier to entry for network deployments.
Very cool. Any chance you can record the meeting? FNF is looking very closely at Babel and OLSR. We believe Babel is the best way to go. The more data we can gather, the better.
HacDC's own mesh networking project, Project Byzantium, is technologically similar and I see the opportunity for a very symbiotic relationship here. At the upcoming Project Byzantium Sprint this weekend we will discuss extending our current Byzantium Linux distro to support the protocols used but the Mount Pleasant community mesh, as well as software services we could develop or deploy which might enhance the value of a local/community network.
Apologies if this has already been done and I just missed it...
Thanks,
John
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Looks like the 'git push' instructions are asking the reader to be the
first person to upload source code?
Maybe New America Foundation plans to push later...
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Hi Charles,
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Charles N Wyble <cha...@knownelement.com> wrote:
On the advice of Preston Rhea I ordered a Ubiquiti NanoStation M2. I also took the opportunity to grab a couple Ubiquiti network adapters I've had my eye on for a while.
Well you're welcome to attend one of our monthly member meeting to see HacDC governance in action! We meet on the second Tuesday of each month.
I believe that much of the software and services which would be relevant to a community wireless network would also be relevant to an emergency mesh network. So I don't see this project as distracting us from our core goals, but rather giving us a persistent environment in which to test and hone the tools we were planning to include anyways.
At the present time we don't have the capacity to do recordings of our classes or events at HacDC (though this is something we're currently working on so in the future it will be possible). If there are individuals at the sprint that would like to record for us I will ask them to post it online.
We will, however do a post-sprint write-up which will be posted to this list to keep everyone in the loop.