PSO Post-Mortem

So, first of all, it was great hanging out with everyone at the PSO in Boston this year. We have a really great crew this year, which makes it a fun and challenging time to become a VISTA Leader, and I'm really looking forward to the next 12 months.

Since the PSO, I've been mainly going over the PSO feedback, getting caught up on my projects at Acorn Active Media, and helping to get Stephen and Nicole settled in their roles as VISTAs at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, which is about 4 blocks from my apartment. Acorn is closely allied with the IMC, and I've always spent a great deal of time there helping out. It's really great to see the IMC having regular staff meetings, and mobilizing around getting them active on their projects.

I have to go up to Chicago this weekend, so right now I'm just trying to make sure that the two of them have everything they need, and to complete some of my projects before I have to leave. Currently I'm working on creating new drafts of the research whitepaper on open-source wireless mesh networking that I completed in May, and of the ARIN IPv6 policy proposal for community networks. The former needs to incorporate some edits by another member of Acorn, and I'm using the opportunity to shore up some of the citations and to add screenshots from the newest build of the mesh software we're developing, but in order to do that I need to build custom images and determine how to flash them onto the hardware I have (Fonera+'s). The latter was introduced at the ARIN meeting in May, where it received a lot of interest but was sent back for revisions. There's a advisory council meeting on a Thursday in the middle of each month, so I was trying to get the edit in for this Thursday, but I'm not sure if I'll make it with all of my other projects. It has to be done by September at the latest.

I'm also working on a website design project for Tokyoprogressive.org and ongoing server maintenance on the Chambana.net colocation project. Chambana.net has a new mailserver that I want to get online, and set up filesharing, distributed logons and a local Ubuntu mirror for the production lab that my VISTAs are working in. Hopefully I'll be able to get at least some of these done before Friday, but if not I should get them done in short order next week.