KansasCity/July2012Hack

A few people will be traveling through Kansas City in early July, 2012, to hack on FNF projects.

Logistics

B+I arrive Tuesday July 3rd, B out Saturday the 7th, C shows up Saturday the 7th (?).

Trip to open ecology farm would be most excellent!

FreedomLink - FreedomTower - FreedomNode - FreedomBox demo
experiment with mesh wifi distributions: byzantium, commotion, generic batman/olsr, open-mesh, etc
FreedomLink - FreedomTower - FreedomTower test (aka, 1 backhaul hop)
plan + implement continuous integration for FreedomLab?
multi-homed FreedomTower: FreedomLink + 4G?
configure routing through IPv6 block at KC DC?
try out ChaosVPN?

radio link betwen KC DC and freedomtower: directional 5GHz?
- plus PoE, cabling, mounting hardware
router/firewall inside KC DC
complete FreedomTower
- plus radio link to KC DC
- if any new "recommended" router hardware, test with that
- power management device C recommended
- if multi-homed, need 4G modem and service plan
FreedomNode
- should really test at least 2x nodes with a mesh hop?
- b has a routerstation pro; only 1x radio card
- rig up something using nanostations?
FreedomBox
- b and i both have dreamplugs, also have extra microSD cards
smartphones and laptops as end user devices
"out of band" 4G or 3G data access for debugging and configuration?
any extra routers for mesh experimentation
- commodity plus OpenWRT? (b has a few)
- routerstation pro (b has one)
- dreamplugs (b+i)
- TP-Link mini devices? (fnf has some?)
- buy some freedomstations?

choose test sites for freedomtower, nodes << Isaac handling. http://chili.freenetworkfoundation.org/issues/281 and http://chili.freenetworkfoundation.org/issues/282
schedule visit to Joe's
order any necessary hardware << 3.65ghz radios ordered
plan/spec for continuous integration stuff << underway. Not currently ticketed.