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About Me
Joined PTP in 2011. On the BoardOfAdvisors. Personal website: http://danrasmussen.org/ .
Expended lots of effort with the goal of getting the word out about the Personal Telco Project. First, lots of work on the PTP wiki. Then re-wrote the homepage so outsiders could understand what Personal Telco was about. I made Dashboard so that I, and others could more effectively keep the wiki up-to-date and relevant/interesting. I rewrote PTP's listing for Calagator and for a while took it on myself to submit PTP events to Calagator in an attempt to seek new volunteers. I tried to visit all of the Personal Telco nodes in Portland, and eventually did visit most of them. Here's a map of the results: http://pdxwifimap.com/ptp_audit_2012 . That project became http://pdxwifimap.com/, another attempt of mine to draw attention to the Personal Telco Project. It's also a learning project. PDX Wifi Map is based on OpenStreetMap and does things I haven't seen on any other wifi map.
Projects
(in no particular order)
SplashPageRedesign - PTP's splash pages need some help!
Make homepage awesome. On both mobile (still sucks - sidebar causes unpleasant scrolling experience, but at least text explains what PTP is about) and immobile (fairly satisfied with how it looks with Firefox on netbook screen, haven't tried any others yet).
Introduction - Like PersonalTelco, but works well on small screens. Learned: Russell and Jason apparently fond of sidebar on homepage, DanRasmussen dislikes sidebar - see Dashboard section below). Replaced OldHomepage text with Introduction text on 25. April 2012 and trimmed down OldHomepage's sidebar. Visit PersonalTelco with a small-screen-having device to see why I hate the sidebar.
- Possible solutions:
From WikiTipOfTheDay: "You can set other pages than the FrontPage as your personal start page, e.g. RecentChanges or your own homepage." NeedsUpdate Some way to make Dashboard personal start page?
Bookmark Dashboard page with small-screen devices, volunteers use as startup page. Easiest short-term solution until/unless one of the following items happens:
- Somebody who enjoys HTML/CSS formatting ("NOT IT!") gets sidebar to load *after* main page text
Detect small screen devices, send them to Dashboard if logged in or PersonalTelco page minus sidebar if not logged in? (Probably also a "NOT IT!" item)
Your solution here
IntroductionNextGen - DRAFT of next-gen homepage. Contains ideas for improvements to Introduction.
Dashboard - PTP entry page for volunteers. Goal: show every homepage visitor what they need, and no more! See UsingDashboard for details.
4 - Number of print pages required to print OldHomepage. Note how awkward this looks in printed form, and how much of the information is quickly dated, or does not make sense in non-hyperlink form.
2 - Number of print pages required to print current homepage (Introduction).
1 - Number of print pages required to print current homepage without sidebar - default as of May 1st, 2012!
1.5 - Number of print pages required to print Dashboard. No real reason to print this page.
Add sponsor links to nodes (ongoing, but started 22. Feb 2012 and essentially finished 28. Feb 2012) - working through NodesByAge
Delete, or add to DeleteMe, appropriate pages from AbandonedPages and OrphanedPages - WARNING: both of these links could take a long time to load!
Create pages the wiki says ought to exist, where beneficial. See WantedPages, and be aware that it could take forever to load
Create a NetbookHotspot (a type of BackPackAp).
- Using Android, find offline way to GPS navigate to nearest PTP node.
Pages I've Created
NeedsUpdate - list of pages containing useful, but partly outdated, information. Skills required: wiki editing, and maybe research or subject knowledge.
NeedsCoded - list of areas in which PTP could use a little coding work, or advanced wiki skills
HistoricalInterest - list of interesting historical information, and/or mostly/completely outdated stuff, superseded by CategoryHistorical
PersonalTelcoMetrics - list of interesting ways to measure the growth, utility, and benefits of the project
PersonalTelcoExports - useful documents for those who would emulate Personal Telco.
DanRasmussen/Questions - Personal Telco topics I'm interested in that don't appear to be documented in the written language
PhilosophyOnePage - Everything in CategoryPhilosophy, on one page for easy reading. Personal experiment.
Calagator - My attempt to get Portland's geek community interested in Personal Telco.
NeighborhoodNodes - Printable list of PTP nodes, pulled from the database, with some address standardization. I feel the naming of this page leaves something to be desired (in particular: it's a little long, and requires good spelling/typo-avoidance to type), but NodeList is taken, and Nodes (another badly-named node list page) is a page I feel I shouldn't edit. Random node news:
Added NodeLutz
SplashPage - explanation of how PTP's splash page works. Didn't create the page, but rewrote everything that was there...
Macro Test Bed
Macro: RecentChangesList / RecentChanges()
RecentChanges takes up a lot of space! Possible to limit output? See Dashboard for RecentChangesList.
Macro: RandomPage(integer) , RandomPage, PageCount
Several random pages, (out of 3378 total) :
Random page, twice: RussellSenior / ThankYou
Macro: FullSearch() / FullSearchCached()
Pages where DanRasmussen appears in text. Is there some way to show most recent pages edited by DanRasmussen, vs. being in the page text? FullSearchCached is for searches that don't change much. I don't know how often the cache is refreshed, but would like to figure that out. "Clear Cache" is one of the Page Actions.
- AccessPoint
- AnnualMembersMeeting2012
- BackPackAp
- BitTorrent
- BoardOfAdvisors
- Calagator
- CategoryBeWitched
- CategoryCategory
- CategoryDunWireless
- CategoryEmpty
- CategoryExample
- CategoryHistorical
- CategoryNetwork
- CategoryNodeBehindNat
- CategoryNodeDetails
- CategoryPhilosophy
- DAAP
- DanRasmussen
- DanRasmussen/PrivateTestPage
- DanRasmussen/Questions
- Dashboard
- DeleteMe
- ElectronicFrontierFoundation
- EthernetPlugnPlay
- FindNearestNode
- FrequentlyAskedQuestions
- Introduction
- IntroductionNextGen
- IrcChannel
- JenSedell
- KarmaNode
- MailingLists
- MeetingApril2012
- MeetingJune2011
- MeetingMarch2012
- MeetingSeptember2011
- MississippiNetworkNews
- MobileSplash
- NeedsCoded
- NeedsUpdate
- NeighborhoodNodes
- NetbookHotspot
- NewUsersGuide
- NoTextChasGroup
- NodeFaq
- NodeGuide
- NodeOwnerHelp
- NodeUpaTree
- OSCON2012
- OpenAp
- OrphanedPages
- OtherPublicAccessPoints
- OurLogo
- PersonalTelco
- PersonalTelcoExports
- PersonalTelcoHandbook
- PersonalTelcoHandbookTodo
- PersonalTelcoMetrics
- PlacesToUnwire
- PlayDayJuly2012
- PortalSoftware
- PortlandWirelessCommunities
- PotentialNodeOwnerFaq
- PreviousMeeting
- PublicNodes
- Publications
- QuarterlyZine
- RealBrowser
- SkyPilotPlayDay20120204
- SloganIdeas
- SnmpHelp
- SocialNetworks
- SplashPageRedesign
- StateOfTheCategory
- TheSign
- UsingBuilderHowTo
- UsingDashboard
- WarDriving
- WeeklyMeeting20110511
- WeeklyMeeting20120201
- WeeklyMeeting20120215
- WeeklyMeeting20120222
- WeeklyMeeting20120307
- WeeklyMeeting20120321
- WeeklyMeeting20120404
- WeeklyMeeting20120411
- WeeklyMeeting20120418
- WeeklyMeeting20120502
- WeeklyMeeting20120801
- WeeklyMeeting20140409
- WeeklyMeetingNotesHowto
- WikiMaintenance
- WikiTour
- WirelessPowerMeter
- loraksus
Macro: EditedSystemPages
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Macro: TitleIndex, WordIndex, WantedPages, OrphanedPages
WordIndex: index of all words in page titles. WordIndex system page disabled on PTP wiki, but macro is embeddable in any page. WantedPages: list links to non-existent pages OrphanedPages: list pages no other page links to
<<TitleIndex>>: an index of all page titles. TitleIndex system page disabled on PTP wiki, but macro is embeddable in any page.
Macro: AbandonedPages
See AbandonedPages Quite a long list! Many PTP wiki pages haven't been edited forever - e.g. historical meeting notes. Wonder what the cut-off date is for this function...
Macro: SystemInfo
Macro: NewsResults(term1+term2+...)
NewsResults(portland+wifi):
The Right Place at the Right Time: Portland Got a Gucci Store, Baby!!! - The Portland Mercury
Facebook makes $60K donation to Sumner County schools - Lebanon Democrat
Portland State University in Housing Assistance Pilot Program - Higher Education - Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
Find your flash of insight with help from SPL - pressherald.com
Wi-Fi Chipsets Projected to Witness Vigorous Expansion by 2021-2026 - The Courier
Students in need get help to access internet for distance learning - KGW.com
Community Partners Team Up To Bring WiFi To South Baltimore Families In Need - Yahoo News
Comprehensive Report on Wireless Gas Detection Market 2021 | Size, Growth, Demand, Opportunities & Forecast To 2027 | - The Courier
North Idaho internet provider continues to censor Facebook, Twitter for customers who request it - KGW.com
Old school Airstreams enjoy pandemic-era popularity - The Washington Post
Comcast Launching WiFi-Connected “Lift Zones” in Oregon/SW Washington - Oregon Business
Smart Wireless Propane Tank Meter Market Upcoming Future Growth and Opportunities with Top Key Players Schneider Electric, SkyBitz, Schmitt Industries, Wesroc & more – KSU | The Sentinel Newspaper - KSU | The Sentinel Newspaper
Building a publicly owned internet system across Multnomah County is probably too expensive - OPB News
Portland Public Schools working with Comcast amid internet stability concerns - KPTV.com
Comcast offers free WiFi hotspots, unlimited data, waives late fees during coronavirus outbreak - KGW.com
Internet in the pandemic: Low-cost, free options, tips - KOIN.com
Parent Files Complaint Over Comcast Service for Portland's Low-Income Families - Willamette Week
Personal Telco Project: A Case Study in Community Connectivity - EFF
Comcast extends free wifi for those in low-income households | Venture - Daily Hive
Fresh Folds Laundromat Opens Top-of-the-Line Laundromat in Tacoma - EIN News
A Maui vacation in three acts - The San Diego Union-Tribune
The 27 Quaintest Airbnbs in the Northeast - PureWow
For thousands of students without home internet access, remote learning is an extra challenge - Press Herald
Free WiFi to be expanded in Russell neighborhood - WAVE 3
With Municipal Broadband, Cities Are Taking Back the Internet—and Making It Faster and Cheaper. Can Portland Do the Same? - The Portland Mercury
Development Programme Targets 10 Beaches Over Three Years - Government of Jamaica, Jamaica Information Service
A Former Comcast Employee Explains Why Low-Income WiFi Packages Aren't Helping Students - BuzzFeed News
Is your home wi-fi struggling to do all you’re asking of it? Here’s what to do - NewsCenterMaine.com WCSH-WLBZ
Comcast rolls out new Internet Essentials Partnership Program for schools in its footprint - Philadelphia Business Journal - Philadelphia Business Journal
New 'hotspot' in Biddeford neighborhood - Portland Press Herald - pressherald.com
The dangers of the SPAC speculation wave - Fortune
Trail Blazers’ Rookie CJ Elleby Adjusts to NBA Life - Blazer's Edge
This Kodak portable projector, on sale, enhances your streaming experience - The Next Web
Eastern Oregon school districts and businesses provide internet options - KGW.com
WATCH: Janet Mills Proposes $100 Million In Bonds For Economic Recovery In State of the Budget - Maine Public
Outstanding Portland Coffee Shops With Free Wi-Fi - Eater PDX
Spectrum hiring 200 employees for Portland call center - NewsCenterMaine.com WCSH-WLBZ
Oregon schools, cities working to close the internet gap for students - KPTV.com
Governor discusses health care, education, economy in budget address - Boothbay Register
Oregon COVID-19 updates, Sept. 26: Oregon reports 277 new cases - KGW.com
Multnomah County Closes Libraries To Prevent Spread Of Coronavirus - OPB News
Portland schools to roll out online learning program amid coronavirus pandemic - KGW.com
Portland WiFi networking company acquired - Portland Business Journal - Portland Business Journal
When His Students Went Home, Joe McFerrin Searched to Find Them Wi-Fi Hot Spots - Willamette Week
US Cellular offering in-home high-speed internet service to Maine residents - Bangor Daily News
BLUECHIP: Sayre: Answering an internet SOS - The Register-Guard
Portland’s pandemic-era apartment buildings: Tenants win with rent incentives, but gyms may go away - OregonLive
Nationwide Internet Outage Affects ROTR, My Disney Experience, and MORE! - Inside the Magic
Sandy internet provider creating WiFi hotspots for Oregon Trail School District students - KPTV.com
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) buys Austin networking company Rivet Networks - Portland Business Journal - Portland Business Journal
Global Wi-Fi Analytics Market to Reach $31.01 Billion by 2026: Says, AMR - GlobeNewswire
Read Janet Mills' full State of the Budget address - Yahoo! Voices
Murmurs: State Troopers Calm Protest Zone - Willamette Week
New Mexico boy without home internet walks to school to use WiFi - Madison.com
PacStar sold to Curtiss-Wright Corp (NYSE: CW) for $400M - Portland Business Journal
Rural Connections - Oregon Business
As Oregon Locks Down Again, Has the Chance to Open Schools Slipped Away? - Portland Monthly
Verizon Response: Unlimited call/text/data for customers impacted by Oregon wildfires - Verizon News
Internet access secured for nearly 22,000 Maine students - NewsCenterMaine.com WCSH-WLBZ
Knox County man found dead after getting disoriented on walk - Press Herald
Is your 'work from home' office cyber secure? - NewsCenterMaine.com WCSH-WLBZ
Largest Hardware Design & Manufacturing Firms in Oregon & SW Washington - Portland Business Journal - New York Business Journal
‘There will be a lasting impact’: How the pandemic magnified Maine’s digital divide - NewsCenterMaine.com WCSH-WLBZ
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) extends remote work through June 2021. - Portland Business Journal - Portland Business Journal
Work from someone else’s Oregon home: Book an office getaway - oregonlive.com
Spectrum offers students free internet amid COVID-19 school closures - NewsCenterMaine.com WCSH-WLBZ
Internet slowdowns expected as more Mainers work from home amid coronavirus outbreak - Bangor Daily News
Public Wi-Fi Hotspot Established In Port Antonio - Government of Jamaica, Jamaica Information Service
Group works for wifi through Cathlamet - The Wahkiakum County Eagle
Ray's offers free internet hotspot for local students - Pamplin Media Group
Comcast Launches New "Internet Essentials Partnership Program" for Cities, Schools, and Students as Nation Gears up for the Academic Year - AiThority
Comcast Ramps Up Broadband Access Program For Low-Income K-12 Students - Deadline
Boingo launches neutral host DAS at PDX - FierceWireless
Axiom Technologies partners with Microsoft to install free Wi-Fi hotspots in Washington County - WABI
The Sunday Brief: The importance of fiber-based broadband relationships - RCR Wireless News
Report: T-Mobile winning 5G race in the US, Verizon continues to lead 4G experience - 9to5Mac
Inside Travel Portland's Rescue Plan - Oregon Business
Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile All Experiencing Service Issues (Updated) - Droid Life
Maine students struggle with Internet access during remote learning - NewsCenterMaine.com WCSH-WLBZ
Public invited to Nov. 6 Interstate Bridge Replacement Program steering group kickoff meeting - Access Washington
Oregon FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against Holiday Shopping (Part 2) — FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation
Workfrom creates virtual cafes to recapture 'third spaces' lost to Covid-19 pandemic - Portland Business Journal - Portland Business Journal
Life In The Time Of Coronavirus: What's Still Open In Oregon? - OPB News
Internet, cable companies won't shut off service to those who can't pay during outbreak - Bangor Daily News
Comcast to enforce 1.2TB data cap in entire 39-state territory in early 2021 - Ars Technica
As Oregon Schools Roll Out Distance Learning, Some Students May Be Left Behind - OPB News
How libraries are fostering early literacy while closed - Pamplin Media Group
Chattanooga broadband providers expand discount programs to help low-income students with virtual learning - Chattanooga Times Free Press
Oregon Education head praises school districts' efforts during unprecedented move to distance learning - KGW.com
Jay County REMC offering free WIFI to students - WANE
AT&T: Nearly all service restored to those affected by Nashville bomb - WZTV
WiFi-enabled smart kiosks with touch screens could be coming to Portland, mayor says - GeekWire
Some Portland parents, students say remote learning is hurting education - WGME
Oregon’s online schools also subject to Gov. Kate Brown’s coronavirus closure order - KGW.com
Family safely jumps from second floor SE Portland apartment to escape fire | NewsChannel 3-12 - KEYT
Comcast raising TV and Internet prices, including a big hike to hidden fees - Ars Technica
The Best Modems and Routers for Your Money, According to IT Pros - Money
CTL Announces New Chromebox Models Featuring Intel's 10th Generation Processors, Dual HDMI, USB C, Wi-Fi 6 (Up to 2.4ghz/MU-MIMO), and Bluetooth 5.1 - PRNewswire
New homeless shelters open at former Wapato Jail, Mt. Scott Community Center - KGW.com
How to find out if your city has 5G right now - TechRepublic
Macro: Hits
All hits ever? Since when?
Simple <<Hits>>: 7145. Same as <<Hits(all=False,event_type=VIEWPAGE)>>: 7145...
Page revisions <<Hits(all=False,event_type=SAVEPAGE)>>: 32
Page revisions <<Hits(all=True,event_type=VIEWPAGE)>>: 15795453
Macro: RandomQuote
<<RandomQuote()>> uses FortuneCookies, unless you specify a page in the quotes. From FortuneCookies, by using <<RandomQuote()>>:
Hint: Edit the FortuneCookies page to display randomly selected wisdom here.
From NeedsUpdate, by using <<RandomQuote(NeedsUpdate)>>:
From NeedsCoded, by using <<RandomQuote(NeedsCoded)>>:
No quotes on NeedsCoded.
From WikiTipOfTheDay, by using <<RandomQuote(WikiTipOfTheDay)>>:
Set in UserPreferences the language to "English" then also your Emails are in English.
Macro: PageCount
<<PageCount>>: 35663
<<PageCount(exists)>>: 3378