05-31, 17:00–17:50 (Europe/Brussels), Katoenkamer
Europe urgently needs more resilient digital infrastructure, but official work towards this goal is slow. Crisis engineering tells us that organizations rarely make big changes, except during an existential crisis. That's when a few people who have tools and expertise ready can not only repair the system, but make significant upgrades to help avert future crises. The Amsterdam Internet Resiliency Club is a volunteer group of networking experts who are ready to help network operators recover from a complete loss of internet and cellular connectivity. We have set up cheap, low power LoRa (Long Range) radios running Meshtastic, an open source software project, which allows us to communicate across several kilometers by text message without any centralized infrastructure. This talk is a quick-start guide for founding your own internet resiliency club in your area, including hardware, software, and community building tips.
Valerie Aurora is a systems software consultant at Bow Shock Systems, located in Amsterdam. Her specialties are file systems, networking, fixing data corruption, and systems software design and debugging. Her file systems work includes ZFS, ext2/3/4, the VFS layer, and now ngnfs. She first wrote code for the Linux kernel in 1998.