BAM Weekly Working Group January 16th, 2023

Attendees

• Mathison Ott
• Dave Dornlas
• John Swallow
• Tim Wilkinson

Notes by

• Tim Wilkinson

Major Discussions Topics

• Facebook
  • John talked with Isaac about Facebook changes. Replace Omni with sector + dish pointing at Black Mountain.
• Meshtastic
  • The subject of Helium nodes was discussed, but transition into a discussion about supporting Meshtastic using the mesh as a backbone.
• AREDN
  • AREDN is making its TODO list for the year, so people had suggestions
  • Routing - OLSR could be replaced with something better, but how to we evaluate what that is and know that the alternative is better?
  • Tunnels - tunnels could be better. How to fix them?
  • Monitoring - with the recent storms taking down the network, can we provide better monitoring?
  • SoCal connection - let's connect to SoCal - but how and what implications (this is more of a local SFWEM topic rather than AREDN)
• New Sites
  • Look at how we might expand SFWEM south all the way to Monterey
    • Possible pathway - Allison, Ununum, Fair(?), Kite Hill, Scots Valley(?), Santa Cruz, Monterey [Note: I probably captured that incorrectly]
  • Tri-Valley (Livermore, Dublin, Pleasanton)
    • Sunol will bring this area on line.
    • Robot Garden (marker space in Livermore) are interested in participating. Mathison suggests a meet-up there later in the year.