[occupyaustin-it] How can I help?

[Gregory Foster]

Hey Tim -
Very glad you signed up for the mailing list.  Hope you can make it to 
the meeting tonight 
<http://foojutsu.org/pipermail/occupyaustin-it/attachments/20111101/e1e0bafc/attachment.html>, 
we'll hash out a lot of plans and priorities there.

gf


On 11/2/11 11:04 AM, Tim Fredlund wrote:
> Greetings Occupy Austin IT, et al.
>
> I'm a member of ATX Hackerspace who was present when the Freedom Tower 
> was brought in for demonstration (at Dorkbot's meeting). I'm also the 
> secretary of the board there, so if you have some questions about the 
> place itself feel free to ask.
>
> A few others and myself had a decent-length dialogue with the 
> individuals who brought the tower in that night. Where it was, what 
> the general plan was, where it could go, etc. We offered some possible 
> improvement ideas that might coincide with the goals of OA IT and 
> Tower Ops. There are specifically some ideas on mast construction, 
> power sourcing and management, and some networking ideas that our 
> group at ATXHS are keen to share if there are willing ears.
>
> Myself, I'm a systems administrator with a fair amount of 
> infrastructure/local networking experience in addition to hardware 
> knowledge. We run a similar system to (how it sounds like) you guys 
> want to run the towers eventually out of our space (for the curious: 
> avg 40-node international hosted-services mesh VPN, plenty of /32 and 
> semi-populated /24 networks are common), so if its as similar as it 
> sounds like, I'd like to offer my services in assistance with that as 
> well.
>
> Lastly, in an odd bit of coincidence, another member and I have been 
> playing around with the concept of long-range point to point data 
> links, with the idea of running data relay/VoIP/encapsulated POTS over 
> it. I don't know if this is the kind of thing OA IT or Tower Ops is 
> interested in, but I figured I'd throw it out there.
>
> tl;dr: I'm interested in helping out, and I have experience with 
> networking and hardware. What can I do?
-- 
Gregory Foster || gfoster at entersection.org
@gregoryfoster<>  http://entersection.com/

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