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Come to the Seattle Community Network fundraiser dinner on Saturday March 28th, 6:30-8:30 PM! Zylberschtein's will give 10% of proceeds to our nonprofit, which will help us with needed network maintenance and repairs for the homeless shelters and low-income housing where we serve internet access. It's a $40-$45 meal, family style, with "no phones" encouraged! The founder Esther and her jazz band will be providing live music. Come with all your friends and loved ones!

Zylberschtein's Delicatessen & Bakery Zylberschtein's Delicatessen & Bakery is a Jewish-style Deli that is all about comfort food and nostalgia. We boil and bake the best hand-rolled bagels in North Seattle. Our Pastrami is smoked in-house and all of our food from our Matzo Ball Soup to our Matzo at Passover is made from scratch. We off...

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Seattle Community Network (@seattlecommunitynetwork.org) The Seattle Community Network began in 2019 as a project of the Local Connectivity Lab (LCL), a 501(c)(3) registered non-profit that develops and deploys open source cellular network technologies to help people run their own community networks.

🚀 Hack Night Alert! 🗓️ Friday, July 19, 2024, 6:30 PM - 11:30 PM

Join Seattle Community Network (SCN) members and volunteers for a fun evening of “hacking” on radio and network-related mini-projects!

🔧 Activities may include:
- Setting up SCN 4G LTE cell sites
- Flashing router firmware
- Crimping Ethernet cables
- Investigating networking protocols with sniffers and Wireshark
- Playing with wireless point-to-point radios
- Unlocking LTE devices
- Exploring 4G/5G cellular protocols
- Working on SCN configuration tools and network monitoring infrastructure

This is a great opportunity to get hands-on experience with networking equipment and collaborate with other tech enthusiasts!

🎉 Program:
6:30 PM - Arrive, enjoy pizza, informal intros, and kickoff with project pitches
7:00 PM - Good chaos (project work!)
11:00 PM - Wrap up and clean up

📲 More details and RSVP: (https://tinyurl.com/yc87y5xf )

📎Join us for our next community meeting on Monday, July 15th, at 6 PM! Discover new project updates and learn how you can get involved.

📍 RSVP here: [http://tinyurl.com/SCNJuly2024Reg]

🗣️ Help us share and spread the word!

Date: Monday, July 15th
Time: 6:00pm - 7:00pm PST
Location: Ada’s technical books (the Seattle bookstore)
RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/SCNJuly2024Reg

Hey all, come to the Tacoma Cooperative Network's Cable Crimping Social tomorrow at the Tacoma Solidarity Space tomorrow, Sat. 3/2/24 at 3-5 pm!
Hang out with us, have snacks/brownies/tea, and learn or teach others how to crimp ethernet cable :) This is a crucial skill we use as part of building community internet!
(secret- it's kind of like knitting)
https://www.instagram.com/p/C38vCuFP2XC/

We'd love to get Seattle Community Network (SCN) community members and volunteers “hacking” on radio and network-related mini-projects next Wednesday June 8th! Please stop by and check out our schedule of things we'll be doing below! (https://www.meetup.com/seattle-community-network-meetup-group/events/286276584/)

We will be graciously hosted in the Filipino Community of Seattle's Integrated Learning Center (ILC) makerspace. No prior experience required! If you're interested, FCS staff can help you learn how to use the fabrication tools in the makerspace (3D printer, laser cutter).

Learn how our SCN 4G LTE cell sites are set up and how to attach a user device to the network; flash a router's firmware; practice crimping Ethernet cables; investigate networking protocols using a variety of wireless sniffers, packet captures, and Wireshark; play with wireless point-to-point radios; help us unlock a carrier-locked LTE device; dig deep into 4G or 5G cellular protocols; help out SCN with configuration tools for making installs easier, or with adding critical features to our network monitoring infrastructure! This can be a chance to get some hands-on experience playing around with networking equipment, and/or chat and make progress on your personal or SCN's projects with other cool folks :)

Program:
7:00 pm- arrive and eat pizza
7:30 pm- brief round of intros and kickoff, subgroup/mini-project pitches
8:00 pm- split into groups to get started working on mini-projects
9:00 pm- brief check-in of something each group has learned, has a question about, or is stuck on
11:30 pm- wrap up and debrief
12:00 am- go home

Some proposed mini-projects:

- Help us try to unlock a carrier-locked fixed-wireless LTE device!
- Learn how we configure and attach user devices to the Seattle Community Network, and how to help test signal strength/coverage
- Help us figure out how to automate monitoring the performance of our user devices' Internet connections, to make sure they are working well!
- Investigate what kinds of wireless signals you can observe using an RTL-SDR, HackRF, or other SDR and Wireshark
- Try flashing LibreMesh firmware onto commodity routers and make a small mesh network
- Help us set up various cloud software infrastructure we need: a Netbox instance, a RADIUS server, our configuration tooling for new Mikrotik installations
- Anything else you are interested in trying out!