[Powerstation-discuss] [THS:14265] Hackupy

[Torsten Wagner]

Hey Akiba,

nice list. As for the FM transmitters, I would like to suggest to check 
out the legal usage for these. Not sure about US laws.
It seems to me that the police (or whoever is behind this) takes any 
possible (even if questionable) legal act to make it more difficult for
the activist. We saw this for generators, petrol storage, tents, they 
even use sanitation laws against activist camps.

Thus, getting a FM-pirate radio is just giving them one more reason to 
raid a camp and look for these devices. Or to confiscate them directly 
possible including other stuff send along with them.

Keeping them within legal limiting values for operation, would avoid 
another attack scenario.

Totti

On 11/19/2011 11:49 AM, Akiba wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Thanks to those attending Hackupy at Tokyo Hackerspace. Here's a summary for
> those that missed it.
>
>
>
> -          Nick Farr came down from Kyoto to attend and talk about his
> experiences at Zucotti Park at the beginning days of the occupy protests
>
> -          Three members from Noisebridge came down to talk about what
> Noisebridge is doing for OccupySF and one member from NYC Resistor talking
> about NY sanitation
>
> -          There is a mailing list to discuss technology for the Occupy
> movement at: powerstation-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
>
> -          Topics
>
> *         Using Ushahidi as a central map-based website to locate activity
> around the protest areas so that newcomers can just check the site to see
> where to go
>
> *         Phone based emails, texts, twitter can be posted to it
>
> *         This actually went live as we were talking about it by a separate
> group: http://maps.occupy.net<http://maps.occupy.net/>
>
> *         Centralized repository for information
>
> *         Similar to the earthquake wiki we had set up
>
> *         Currently at the hackerspaces wiki:
> http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Useful_links_for#occupy_protesters
>
> *         Please add useful links to it
>
> *         Car battery based phone charger
>
> *         Taylan's design he came up with for the tsunami victims is
> extremely useful in this situation:
> http://taylanayken.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/12v-phone-charger-v2-0
>
> *         We gave four complete kits to the Noisebridge guys to bring back
> to SF
>
> *         ACTION: Taylan is to post the eagle files (currently only png).
> Also, can you put up a copy of the project page on the THS project site?
>
> *         Portable PA system
>
> *         People at Zucotti park have to use a human mic to relay messages
>
> *         Nick came up with idea of using FM transmitters to transmit voice
> around the whole area
>
> *         This can be extended to a portable, battery operated PA system
> using a 0.5 to 1W FM transmitter and multiple FM receivers + headphone amps
> + small built-in speakers (ie: Altoids tins with speakers)
>
> *         Akiba (that's me folks) is currently looking into developing this
>
> *         Flash mob tools
>
> *         #ows protests may utilize flash mob style for next phases
>
> *         Any ideas on how to organize something like this
>
> *         Tokyo Hackerspace Crisis Management Group
>
> *         MRE, Nick, and I were discussing that ows, the japan earthquake,
> Egypt, etc have multiple things in common:
>
> *         Need for information, communication, power - basic infrastructure
> things we normally take for granted
>
> *         In Tokyo Hackerspace, I'm starting up a crisis management group to
> start developing hardware with these assumptions
>
> *         I am volunteering MRE to the group. He has no choice.
>
> *         The main purpose I want to do this is:
>
> *         Things like car battery phone chargers, portable PA systems,
> pirate FM transmitters, etc are extremely useful in crisis/disaster
> scenarios
>
> *         There is no market for it so we can't rely on commercial entities
> to make these
>
> *         As we've seen, by the time we need it, if it's not ready to go,
> it's too late
>
> *         With these in mind, we should start building a crisis toolkit now
> in the anticipation that more disaster/crisis scenarios will occur in the
> future
>
>
>
> Useful information
>
> *         Most of occupy is currently being organized via facebook and
> twitter
>
> *         People are finding their info via twitter
>
> *         This implies that information organization is currently a problem
>
> *         Also implies that information history is difficult
>
> *         Any suggestions on taking massive amounts of twitter data and
> organizing it would be useful
>
>
>
> Akiba
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