Mesh Boston Meeting Minutes - 2022/09/25

Attending

• James
• Ezra
• Lex
• Skyler

Action Item Status

• Review
  • Brookline Day
  • The Challenges to Municipal Broadband Forum - youtube
• Outreach
  • Table at Boston Anarchist Bookfair, October 22nd-23rd, 9am-5pm
    • Submit presentation (Skyler)
    • Prepare presentation (Skyler/Ezra)
• System Maintenance
  • Write script to update map/liveliness (Skyler)
  • Clear up old entries in map/grafana (JamesO)
  • Setup exit node (JamesO)
  • Test new radios (JamesO)
• Setup how to setup a node event
• Do more outdoors testing of how far nodes go
• Organization
  • File incorporation paperwork (JamesO)

Future

• Check on Cisco Meraki network in Boston in a few weeks

Equipment Available

• See Donating equipment.
• Raspberry Pi 4B budget kits are now available

Summary

• Brookline Day
  • Two separate but related tables supporting one another
  • Got interest. Handed out flyers. Got more sign ups.
• Challenges to Municipal Broadband Forum went well. James will reach out to the people he met. Link above to the video.
• Anarchist Book fair
  • Skyler almost done with presentation. Submitted request. Hasn't heard back.
  • James hasn't heard back about table yet
• James cleared up issues with the incorporation paperwork. Expects friend to have time to finish in October
• Logo design by Lex. Reviewed and like it. Lex will come up with a style guide.
• Skyler expects the range of her node to go up once the leaves are gone and will start to flyer
• Ezra will contact people who signed up to host a node