Dear all,
please find below the log of yesterday's meeting.
I would like to underline the fact that during the upcoming week, Victor
and Javier will deliver at BattleMesh a presentation on LibreMesh and on
Victor's GSoC project and a workshop on how to flash and setup a
LibreMesh node.
If you want to contribute to the outline of the presentation or of the
workshop, you can do that here:
https://pad.exo.cat/pad/#/2/pad/edit/RD5xh7L7fhV34ADzDazIgCCy/
Also, when we discussed about the LibreMesh project infrastructure and
self-hosting, we forgot to mention the DNS, which (according to whois)
is being paid by Altermundi and relies on Codigosur DNS server.
As always, you can see the log of yesterday's meeting and of the
previous ones also at this link:
https://pad.exo.cat/code/#/2/code/edit/ZE7xHnNUW8wlFscPc+ULRqT2/
## Saturday the 7th of June 2025 at 13:00 UTC (15:00 CEST, 10:00 ART).
### People
Ilario, Agustin T., Victor S. cri, Chris M., Gothos, batatania, Javi J.
### Topics
* Updates on GSoC 2025
* Testing grant 2025
* Opening a Mastodon account
* Presentation of LibreMesh and GSoC @BattleMesh
* Routers from Nemael and customs
### Updates on GSoC 2025
The onboarding meeting has been published on our PeerTube account (which
is connected to the fediverse). It includes an introduction about the
whole LibreMesh project.
https://media.exo.cat/w/iPxzNmduAT8pYRikwtgNua
#### Adding wifi to QEMU simulations
Victor Spehar
Ticket for following the progress
https://github.com/libremesh/lime-packages/issues/1178
Blog post on Freifunk website:
https://blog.freifunk.net/2025/06/01/gsoc-2025-adding-wi-fi-support-to-qemu-simulations-in-libremesh/
#### Simplifying LibreMesh
Agustin Trachta
First pull request is here :D
https://github.com/libremesh/lime-packages/pull/1186
https://blog.freifunk.net/2025/06/02/simplifying-libremesh-with-openwrt-native-solutions/
### Testing grant 2025
The project gets money from donations on:
https://opencollective.com/libremesh
And we get part of the money that GSoC gives to mentors. The rest of
this money goes to Freifunk.
The grant proposal has been published on the mailing list:
https://lists.autistici.org/message/20250504.153057.850a1bae.en.html
Gothos proposed himself by email:
https://lists.autistici.org/message/20250515.134927.f52ad85a.en.html
No other person proposed during the meeting, so the grant has been
assigned to Gothos.
Gothos: in our community, LibreMesh on OpenWrt 24.10 is already in
production, with one small workarounds (creating a VLAN on the swconfig
device). Devices with DSA and LAN-LAN connection, without any specific
configuration, LibreMesh configures the port as LAN-only port. So these
devices cannot ping the anygw address. We could resume the cable
autodetection project from GSoC 2024 (started by Nemael). I can test
lime-app (I did not test it so far, as some routers in our community do
not have enough flash memory). If we wanted to skip testing lime-app for
focussing on the next release, we could do that.
Ilario: are you proposing to skip OpenWrt 24 and go directly to the next?
Gothos: seems that the next will be OpenWrt 26. We can still test on top
of OpenWrt 24 but with more focus on other components like lime-app.
Javier: testing on both OpenWrt 23 and OpenWrt 24?
Ilario: testing latest LibreMesh code on top of OpenWrt 24. If Gothos
finds an issue with lime-app, is there anyone able to fix it?
Javier: it's just JavaScript, I can fix it or find people to fix it.
Even if we could not fix it, better to test lime-app and to know what
works/does not work rather than relying on reports from users.
Gothos: good to test on OpenWrt 24. If we find and fix bugs that could
be backported to LibreMesh 2024.1, we could make a release 2024.2
including the fixes.
Ilario: we can pay immediately the hardware, attaching the invoice on
the OpenCollective
Gothos: let's buy an OpenWrt One and one low cost device with DSA
supported and WiFi 6. In our community we don't need this hardware so we
can send it to someone else when it will be needed. Will do between June
and July
### Opening a Mastodon account
An email has been sent asking whether people had a favoured server, but
no answer was received:
https://lists.autistici.org/message/20250405.165608.914fff7d.en.html
Chris: Freifunk has its own Mastodon server
https://freifunk.social/auth/sign_up
Victor: exo.cat is a fediverse server
Ilaro: exo.cat is a snac server
https://exo.cat/fedi/, snac is extremely
minimalist, and there is no button for requesting an account, there is
only their own account...
Ilario: fosstodon.org requires invitation. Rules for Freifunk server
make sense. Let's join Freifunk's Mastodon server.
Cri: we can migrate later to another server, if we want to. This is a
feature of Mastodon.
Ilario: who opens the account?
Cri: I can do that, but do we have any email we can use for opening the
account?
Victor: why is LibreMesh not self-hosted?
Ilario: it was kind of self-hosted, now it is still mostly hosted in
friendly collectives' servers. So, a few years ago the situation was
like this:
* the mailing lists was hosted by Altermundi, you can still see the
archive here
https://listas.altermundi.net/archives/list/lime-dev@lists.libremesh.org/latest
and here
https://listas.altermundi.net/archives/list/lime-users@lists.libremesh.org/latest
from the latest 2 threads in the archive of the lime-dev mailing list
you can see that the hosting was not really working well. So we moved to
a server by the Autistici/Inventati collective.
* the web server was hosted by either Altermundi or Codigosur, I am not
sure. But at some point (in December 2022
https://lists.autistici.org/message/20221217.145552.c123572f.en.html) it
had some problems and stopped working. So we started using Github Pages
as a temporary solution and we still have to move it to a hosting we
actually like.
* the binary repository for the firmware images was also hosted by
Altermundi or Codigosur. The server was extremely outdated and out of
space and faulty so we moved to a server hosted by the Val Samoggia
network community:
https://antennine.noblogs.org/
Ilario: the PeerTube account is registered with my personal email. I can
change the email address for the one of the project as soon as we have one.
Cri: I will ask for an email to Autistici/Inventati
https://www.autistici.org/
### Presentation of LibreMesh and GSoC @BattleMesh
Victor and Javier are attending.
AndiBrau proposed Victor to present at BattleMesh the GSoC project with
an introduction on LibreMesh.
BattleMesh starts on the 10th of June.
Let's draft the outline of the presentation at this document:
https://pad.exo.cat/pad/#/2/pad/edit/RD5xh7L7fhV34ADzDazIgCCy/
Victor: a video with easy setup of a network for your house is missing.
Ilario: Javier, can you do a small workshop during BattleMesh, as it
will be recorded?
Javier: it will be cool, and Agustin just did that so they can help. We
can do it, I will bring routers.
Cri: will there be any LibreRouter?
Javier: yes, at least one with its box, maybe another without case.
Cri: will there be some LibreRouter to keep in Europe?
Javier: I can bring more, what's the plan?
Cri: in my community maybe we will want some :)
### Routers from Nemael and customs
Nemael sent some routers to Javier, that were sent to them by Aparcar.
The problem is that customs asked around 80 dollars to Javier for
receiving the routers. Javier is asking if the project can refund this.
Ilario: let's do that, that's what the money on OpenCollective are for.
We just need to upload on OpenCollective the invoice.
Victor, Cri, Gothos: ok!
Ilario and Javier will manage this.
