People's Open Network

06/13/2020

Dear friends and supporters of Omni Commons, All of us at Omni Commons hope you are safe and in good health.  We stand in solidarity with the movement and all of the organizers, protesters and medical responders who stand on the front lines to hold police accountable for the viole...

05/11/2020

Sudo Mesh is now officially a member of Omni Commons! Read the full Omni newsletter here:

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10/12/2019

Come visit us at the East Bay Community Emergency Prep Fair tomorrow from 10am-3pm! Full schedule of emergency preparedness talks, workshops and activities here: https://bdpnnetwork.org/e…/community-based-dp-demofair-2019/

02/01/2019

Yesterday was an historic day: we finally mounted our gear on the Internet Archive's tower in Richmond! (...only took five years to get here...) for all!

11/12/2018

Next Sunday (11/18): Build Your Own Internet v5! Come and mingle with folks building community-owned internet, participate in hands-on workshops, and partake in good foods and conversation

10/08/2018

People's Open Network is expanding to Richmond and beyond! In other news, we're stoked to report we've received a generous pile of money from Handshake Foundation and a grant from Internet Society, hosted our first unconference, are supporting a new mesh initiative in Santa Cruz, and have gotten some quality media attention this past month.

10/08/2018

People's Open Network is expanding to Richmond and beyond! In other news, we're stoked to report we've received a generous pile of money from Handshake Foundation and a grant from Internet Society, hosted our first unconference, are supporting a new mesh initiative in Santa Cruz, and have gotten some quality media attention this past month. - https://mailchi.mp/ad77619db30f/peoplesopen-march-2018-big-plans-on-the-horizon-388819

10/03/2018

Locally-sourced internet? A group of hackers and activists in Oakland are convening to build just that: a decentralized, democratic internet system that is

09/18/2018

Sudo Mesh volunteers are hopeful that with the new resources and the right work, they can blanket all of Oakland in a functioning mesh network—a free and open web—within 5 years.

09/12/2018

Many more updates to come, but here's a snippet of what we've been up to!

Testing 24GHz air fibers September 12, 2018September 12, 2018 Benny Last Sunday during our (mostly) regular office hours, we unboxed two Ubiquiti 24GHz airFibers. These are really big radios! Much heavier-duty and more expensive than what people normally put on their rooftops when they want to join....

06/15/2018

So rad to videochat with our comrades at tonight! Sharing stories, visions, and bootstrapping all of us to !