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Personal Telco University DVD

This is a place to plan and document the PTPU-DVD.

History

PersonalTelcoUniversity was a program started under [:DarrenEdin: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 PersonalTelcoUniversityDVD 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 (not-yet-announced) role of DirectorOfEducation.

To Do

This is in chronological order, a sort of timeline.

Make a list of possible classes
Check for usable material on MIT's OpenCourseware et al.
Get people to agree to teach them (PTP members and local 'talent')
Determine logistics
- Where
- How
- What equipment
- When
- Who
- What topics
Compile a good camera and some equipment
Shoot a bunch of video
Edit the video
Get an initial copy of the material out for review, collect feedback
More editing in response to feedback
Put on a DVD, pass it out, get more feedback
Make a final copy
Make lots-o-copies and give one to anyone who wants one

Classes

An evolving list of classes which may be featured on the DVD.

Topic	Teacher	Confirmed	Scheduled	Filmed	Edited
About PersonalTelco	your name here	no	no	no	no
Site Survey	your name here	no	no	no	no
About Wireless Networks	your name here	no	no	no	no
Operational Security	your name here	no	no	no	no
Installing and Maintaining Debian Linux	your name here	no	no	no	no
Network Maintenance	your name here	no	no	no	no
Basic Radio Physics	your name here	no	no	no	no
802.11 Physical Layer	your name here	no	no	no	no
Basic Digital Communications	your name here	no	no	no	no
OpenWRT/OpenWGT	your name here	no	no	no	no
Linux	your name here	no	no	no	no
Abusing 802.11	your name here	no	no	no	no
TCP/IP Networking	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.

Basic Digital Communications: Modulation and demodulation. Fourier stuff.

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?

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.

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-PersonalTelcoUniversity was a program started under [:DarrenEdin:DarrenEden]'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.
+PersonalTelcoUniversity was a program started under [:DarrenEdin: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.