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PITTMESH
Random notes on Pittmesh; I'm throwing it down here for now so that we have something to discuss.
Open concerns that need to be solved by PittMesh
- Technology & infrastructure -- Internet connections? IPv6? DNS? Fundamental tools? IP allocation?
- Services -- What do we want to do?
- Coordination & rules -- How does PittMesh operate as a group? Bylaws? Communication? Mailing list? Keep track of what's going on?
- Security -- How do we deal with it if someone tries to abuse PittMesh or do something illegal through it?
- Abuse -- what if someone floods the network, on purpose or by accident? How do we detect it, how do we deal with it?
- Accessibility -- How do we set up new nodes, make life easy for new and existing users, document what's going on?
What do we want to do with it?
Generic communications
- chat (XMPP, IRC, something else?)
- SIP?
- Wiki
- Forum/mailing list?
Services/software
- Local event notifications or announcements of some kind?
- games (minecraft!)
- File server? Syncthing?
- Wikipedia mirror?
- Web service in general?
- Internet bridges?
- Can you access pittmesh services from the internet?
Infrastructure
- IPv6???
- Monitoring/network status (collectd? nagios? munin?)
- DNS
- Security
- Customer support (hah)
- Service discovery
- Ticketing system
- Mailing list
Random ideas
- Can we do something like event coverage? Provide pittmesh accessibility to ball games, concerts, etc?
- Can we get local schools/universities involved?
- Can we bridge PittMesh via VPN or something with locations that don't have direct wireless connections? So have "islands" of PittMesh that are distant from the main body.