People’s Open x Toronto Mesh

Wants:

• Modular insetad of continuous: Hank wants to split up Toronto Mesh workshop into modular instead of 6-week
• Divide by skill level: Different for elementary school students vs. advanced linux user
• Rework content:
  • Start with why this, mesh and community networks, is important
  • Video presentations (e.g. Hank’s video)
  • Completely compartmentalize each module so each can be presented 100% indpenedently of others
    • Have a suggested series to present
    • Split up the technical learning portion & the social interaction portion. Only include the technical portion in the module & let presenters choose an applicable social one to fit their needs. Maybe suggest a module too.
• Background, workshop at the Toronto Public Library: https://tomesh.net/peer-to-peer-internet/
• Varying levels of expectations, from beginner to advanced
• ben: Important design choices to keep:
  • Markdown based everything (i.e. website, PDFs/worksheets, presentation) so we can iterate and translate (e.g. es)
  • Offline environments
  • Hands-on (e.g. get to work with pis)
  • Self-guided (e.g. via worksheets)
  • Fixed set of hardware
  • Political and technical
  • Reset on power cycle (using Mesh Orange at the moment)
• Who we want to target?
• General audience
• Developers
• Educate about how the internet works

What does Oakland want to teach/add?

• Source of Internet bandwidth, share your internet vs. supernode
  • “Wide internet” VS “local mesh internet”, what’s the difference and how does that work?
• WHY MESH: Security, financial, meeting your neighbour
  • How do I talk to my neighbors about this? Should I?
• About the current Internet, practically how do you do it?
  • Who do you talk to?
  • What roof you mount and antenna and how to ask?
• Small activity sort of thing?™ -Hank (a formal selection of activities that can be run outside of specific workshops but are still valuable and fun)
  • Crimp cables
  • TCP relay race
  • Postcard writing booth. -  https://github.com/sudomesh/propaganda/tree/master/cards/byoi-protocol-postcards
• Place for people to share past facilitations and experiences
• Section on each lesson or activity about how tested it is
  • ben: issue / PR template
  • facilitator gather feedback

Links

• https://buildyourowninter.net/
• https://tomeshnet.github.io/p2p-internet-workshop/
• Fiber: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/donotpassgo

https://hackmd.io/@benhylau/H1nxmlm84?type=view