Dear all,
please find below the log of today's meeting.
Also, please note in your calendar the next scheduled meetings:
https://libremesh.org/communication.html#online_meetings
## Saturday the 5th of April 2025 at 13:00 UTC (15:00 CEST, 10:00 ART).
### People
Aryan, batata-coolab, gothos, Ilario, Javier, Purva, vgds, Cri, Gio
### Topics
* Updates on GSoC 2025
* Finalizing the 2024.1 release -
* Testing grant 2025
* Opening a Mastodon account?
* Current errors on Lime-App with latest version
https://github.com/libremesh/lime-app/issues/480
* Sharing info about monitoring
* APuP
* Dave Täht loss
### Updates on GSoC 2025
Aryan - Adding wifi support to qemu
Purva - Adding wifi support to qemu
Deadline for applications: 8th of April, in 2-3 days!!
How many "students" we can accept depends on Google and on Freifunk.
Last year we got assigned 2 projects.
Original projects are welcome!
Official announcement of accepted project on the 8th of May.
Javier: Agustin applied for Simplify LibreMesh
Javier: an original idea could be to develop a small firmware image for
old routers that can load the rest of the software from an USB key.
Gio: another GSoC idea: dinamic devices support in Netifd. Would be
needed for many OpenWrt devices
Gio: another GSoC idea: WPA encryption for APuP
### Finalizing the 2024.1 release
Writing a text for the news page on the website and to be sent by email
on the mailing list:
https://pad.codigosur.org/libremesh-2024.1-news
Ilario: Next weekend let's send the text to the mailing list and on the
news section of the website.
https://repo.libremesh.org/selector/
### Testing grant 2025
The draft is here:
https://pad.exo.cat/pad/#/2/pad/edit/X27kEbYUhJiJ5twKIBVHHVlT/
Deadline for publication: 5th of May.
On OpenWrt 24 or trunk?
There is a new packages version in OpenWrt trunk.
Gothos: better to stay on OpenWrt 24.10 to go a bit slower.
The pull request Gothos wrote for APK packaging will work also on
OpenWrt 24.
As soon as Gothos considers it ready we can merge it.
Javier will add the requirement to test also lime-app
### Opening a Mastodon account?
Ilario: we have a Peertube account but it works only
Javier: +1
Ilario: you can see and comment Peertube videos from Mastodon, they are
federated
Gothos: +1
Cri:
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/need-a-mastodon-social-media-account/146228/11
fosstodon.org
floss.social
Ilario: will send an email asking for which server to use
Content to publish:
Releases
Important pull requests that got merged
New features
Documentation
Media (pictures from BattleMesh talks, poster at Fossdem)
Gothos: also on the website: new page with link medias, link of
articles, link of videos
Gothos will make the new page on the website
### Current errors on Lime-App with latest version
https://github.com/libremesh/lime-app/issues/480
Javier: Has anyone else experienced issues with lime-app?
Gothos: anyone can change the administrator password and it is not clear
which menu entries are for admin only and which ones are for everyone.
Javier: let's add lime-app testing to the testing grant 2025
Javier will add this to the testing grant
Javier: I spoke with Selankon and they will fix the issues spotted by Javier
Ilario: after that is anyone going to continue developing lime-app?
Javier: don't know yet
Batata: do you people use the terminal or lime-app?
Ilario: personally not a user of LibreMesh, got used to do things via
/etc/config/lime-node
Gothos: browsers were blocking the thisnode.info page also for the https
certificate. For the monitoring we use Prometheus + Grafana. Managed by
us as a small team of technicians, not much by the users.
Javier: personally not a user of LibreMesh, people I know use a very old
version of LibreMesh.
### Sharing info about monitoring
Javier:
https://grafana.altermundi.net/d/Jjp28jlMk/trafico-todos-los-nodos?orgId=3
Javier: Tipi. Degoogling is easier if done inside network communities.
https://montelibre.net
https://github.com/runtipi/runtipi
Tipi makes easier to host services.
Maybe similar to Yunohost
Cri: Yunohost is good for non-technical people. But we just create the
containers so that they are just the needed ones and we spare
computational resources
Cri:
https://mappe.antennine.org/en/
Cri: works from inside the networks without password, but requires
password from the internet
https://panorama.antennine.org/
Cri: useful checklist for troubleshooting
https://antennine.noblogs.org/post/2020/09/30/piccola-mini-lista-in-caso-di-malfunzionamento/
Next version of lime-app will have a map with at least 3 layers: wifi,
batman-adv, babeld.
Cri:
https://sandstorm.org/
### APuP
Ilario: Gio developed an alternative to classic wifi mesh connection
systems called APuP. It has already been accepted in OpenWrt. The
implementation in LibreMesh is pending:
https://github.com/libremesh/lime-packages/pull/1134
Javier: it is very easy to use
Ilario: is it available in OpenWrt 24.10?
Gio: checking...
Ilario: would be good to have APuP in the next LibreMesh release
Gio: some quirks with the speed negotiation. The driver does not even
know that the connection is different from normal AP-sta.
Gothos: possible to have 802.11s and APuP up at the same time for easing
the transition?
Gio: should be possible. Did not try. To use APuP, both nodes will have
to understand APuP.
Ilario: how many AP interfaces will the user see?
Gio: AP interfaces will be created for each peer that gets detected
Gio: the user will just see the normal AP, not the APuP ones because
they are all the same network. There is just one AP network.
Ilario: do the extra interfaces disappear when peer goes away?
Gio: yes, kernel will delete them after a timeout
Ilario: will you continue to work on it?
Gio: will support but hope that more people will develop. I started
working on other routing things
Ilario: WPA encryption?
Gio: WPA can be set for the clients connection, but APuP peers will not
use encryption. Encryption needs to be implemented. The work was to
demonstrate the idea, mostly. Will help people who want to implement the
WPA. It would be a good GSoC project.
### Dave Täht loss
Gio: Dave Täht passed away few days ago. Will send an email about this
on the mailing list
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