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Personal Telco University OpenCourseWare
This is a place to plan and document the PTPU OpenCourseWare.
History
PersonalTelcoUniversity was a program started under [:DarrinEden:DarrinEden]'s presidential term and had sessions in 2004 and 2005. The goal was to have a series of somewhat-formal classes that could be taken by anyone (for a small tuition fee) and would be taught by PersonalTelco members. Upon the completion of the class, students would be prepared to build wireless networks. Despite meager attendance, the program succeeded in it's overall goal to educate those who wanted to be educated.
What's This?
The PersonalTelcoUniversityOCW (orignally PersonalTelcoUniversityDVD, but changed to OCW since the general feeling is that DVDs suck and the real goal is digital content - it doesn't need to be on a DVD) is an attempt to take everything good about PersonalTelcoUniversity and distill it onto a digital medium so that classes can be seen by anyone, not just those with geographical or chronological proximity. Credit goes to Mr. TomHiggins who birthed the concept. Today, it is the primary project of CalebPhillips in his role of DirectorOfEducation, although, he is only making very slow progress.
Schedule
Dates
2007-03-17: Next possible Filming Date
To Do
Immediate ToDo:
CalebPhillips needs to:
- Buy some diffusion gels (and/or other lighting stuffs)
- Prepare his talk on Wireless PHY
- (Maybe) Buy/Aquire a Lavalier Mic. and a Portlable Mixer
TomFitz needs to:
- Edit the Basic Wireless Hardware video and get it out there for review
A process of sorts:
- Pick a Class to Shoot
- Find a teacher, have teacher prepare (maybe have brainstorming session to help them)
- Gather Equipment (Camera, Easel, Headphones, Whiteboard, Diffusion Gels, Lights, Microphone, ...)
Gather People (CalebPhillips, TomFitz, TheTeacher, ...)
- Pick a date
- Show up and film
- When all the filming for a given class is done...Edit
- Show some people the first draft
- More editing in response to feedback
- Publish
- Rinse, Repeat
Classes
An evolving list of classes which may be featured on the DVD. Ordered partially with those we intend to film first on top...
Topic |
Teacher |
Confirmed |
Scheduled |
Filmed |
Edited |
WiFi Hardware Introduction |
yes |
yes |
yes |
no |
|
WiFi Applications |
no |
no |
Rick done, otherwise no |
no |
|
The Physical Layer |
no |
no |
no |
no |
|
About PersonalTelco |
no |
no |
no |
no |
|
TCP/IP Networking |
no |
no |
no |
no |
|
History of Radio |
TomHiggins and/or Marty |
no |
no |
no |
no |
Basic Radio Physics |
no |
no |
no |
no |
|
Site Survey |
no |
no |
no |
no |
|
Introduction to Linux |
no |
no |
no |
no |
|
Installing and Maintaining Debian Linux |
your name here |
no |
no |
no |
no |
Hacking on Consumer Routers - OpenWRT/OpenWGT |
no |
no |
no |
no |
|
Network Maintenance |
your name here |
no |
no |
no |
no |
Operational Security |
your name here |
no |
no |
no |
no |
Class Descriptions
About PersonalTelco: Previously taught by DarrinEden at PersonalTelcoUniversityFall2004. Gives an overview of the organizational structure of the Personal Telco Project including it's mission, history, business structure, and operations.
Site Survey: Previously taught by JasonMcArther. Everything you need to know to do a site survey including coverage of Kismet (and other software sniffers), interference, and multi-path fading. Previously taught at PersonalTelcoUniversity.
About Wireless Networks: A high level introduction on how to use an access point (PersonalTelco's or otherwise) and how to set one up.
Operational Security: Cryptography and why you should love it and use it. Including useful things like use of gnupg, application layer security, and Link-layer security (WEP, WPA, etc.). Previously taught at PersonalTelcoUniversity.
Installing and Maintaining Debian Linux: Walk through the install process. Using apt-get etc. Previously taught at: PersonalTelcoUniversityFall2004.
Basic Radio Physics: Some refreshing math! Watts and Decibels. Frii's equation and free-space propogation loss. Antennae. Cable/equipment insertion loss. Fresnell issues. Other fun stuff! I am going to try to rope TroyJaqua or Russell Senior into this.
802.11 Physical Layer: 802.11 without all the boring MAC stuff. Spread-spectrum techniques and Digital modulation.
OpenWGT/OpenWRT Fun: How to make off-the-shelf embedded hardware run linux and do useful things. OpenWGTStumbler, OpenWGTRepeater, OpenWGTNode.
Linux: Introduction to linux. Some history and discussion of software-freeness is a must. Can we get the FreeGeek people or PLUG to do this one?
Field Day 2006 - Abusing 802.11: A short documentary on the Personal telco field-day and how we tried (and succeeded) at making 802.11 do something it should never be able to do.
TCP/IP Networking: TCP/IP, the 7 layer view, network components. Previously taught at: PersonalTelcoUniversityFall2004.
Network Maintanence: How to use tools like Cacti and Nagios to maintain a healthy network. Previously taught at: PersonalTelcoUniversityFall2004.
Beg, Borrow, Steal
MIT OpenCourseWare Overlap
[http://ocw.mit.edu MIT OpenCourseWare] was a direct inspiration for this project. If at all possible, we would like to make use of thier content instead of overlapping it - no reason to reinvent the wheel, afterall. After looking, it appears that there isn't much overlap. Here are applicable classes, none of which contain audio or video, only (quite detailed) lecture notes:
Class |
Overlaps/Complements |
Media Available |
[http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-263JData-Communication-NetworksFall2002/CourseHome/index.htm Data Communication Networks] |
Overlaps with "TCP/IP Networking" |
Lecture Notes, Problem Sets |
[http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Engineering-Systems-Division/ESD-68JSpring-2006/CourseHome/index.htm Communications and Information Policy] |
Complements "About Personal Telco" |
Lecture Notes, Readings List, Assignments |
[http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Aeronautics-and-Astronautics/16-36Communication-Systems-EngineeringSpring2003/CourseHome/index.htm Communications Systems Engineering] |
Complements "802.11 PHY" and "Radio Physics" |
Lecture Notes, Problem Sets |
Other (Probably Free) Video That We Might Re-Use
Talks By Eric Blossom of GNU Radio: http://gnuradio.org/video/
YouTube'd Video of Wireless History (posted by SamChurchill to general): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi__kIa8Hy4
Other (Unlikely Free) Video That We Might Ask to Use
- PSU CS Lectures taped for Shanghai Students
- ...
Budget
Income
[http://www.linuxfund.org LinuxFund] gave us $1000 for this project.
Expenses
[http://www.personaltelco.net/~caleb/receipts/fredmeyer_2007.02.10_ptpu_dv.png] [http://www.personaltelco.net/~caleb/receipts/thaipk_2007.02.25_ptpu_food.png]
When |
What |
How Much |
2007-02-10 |
DV Cassettes |
19.99 |
2007-02-25 |
Food on First Day Filming |
24.45 |
Total so far: $44.44