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'''Location:''' JaxBar<<BR>>
'''Date and Time:''' Wednesday, August 27th, 2008, 6:30-8:00pm<<BR>>
'''Scribe:''' MichaelWeinberg<<BR>>
'''Roll Call:''' SteveTree, SamChurchill, BenJencks, RussellSenior, JoeChristiensen, RickLindahl, KeithLofstrom<<BR>>

'''Agenda'''
 * Call for board agenda items
 * Annual Board Meeting
  * Selection of Officers
  * Accounting
  * Other board business
  * Closing of board meeting
 * Recap of Ben and Mike's meeting with Motorola
 * Volunteer cards
 * New node updates
 * GeekFair report
 * Choose location for next weekly

'''Notes'''
 * Call for board agenda items:
  * Not an agenda item, but Rick reports issues with the homepage using IE7
  * Also not a board item, but Russell wants to plan for more volunteerism
  * Board item - vote whether we should add 2 additional board seats to be chosen by the October Monthly
 * Annual Board Meeting
  * Russell motions to appoint all meeting attendees who have been to more than one meeting to the board of advisors if they elect to be. Michael seconds. Passed.
   * RickLindahl, SteveTree, SamChurchill and BenJencks accept.
  * Russell motions to allow non-advisors to talk at the board meeting. Seconded. Passed.
  * Board votes to maintain current officer positions.
   * President - MichaelWeinberg
   * Treasurer - TroyJaqua
   * Secretary - RussellSenior
  * Russell needs to reimburse himself $500 for travel to CWN Summit in May '08, as previously approved by the board.
  * After debate, board votes to add 2 director positions with election at October meeting. 
  * Board Meeting is closed.
 * Motorola is lobbying the public safety departments of Clark, Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties to upgrade/replace the existing communications systems as a group along with some form of public access wireless Internet service. Ben and Mike met with them over dinner to discuss their ideas and provide some feedback.
  * This led to a larger discussion of public wireless and other public broadband.
 * Michael shows off the PTP volunteer business cards that any volunteer can use.
 * Node updates
  * NodePixelFace near Richmond School and NodeSeth
  * NodePeteForsyth was plugged in
  * Another node was plugged in at SE Holgate and 65th, but only port 80 was open at last reporting.
  * NodeIntegrity has been expanded and Wifidog was turned off due to undiagnosed (as yet) problems. Help with diagnosis would probably lead to resolution.
  * There was a NodeLightHouse outage report from a user.
  * Bridgeport Alehouse on SE Hawthorne is interested in becoming a node. Russell is meeting with them tomorrow.
  * A NodeArborLodge user has moved and is now interested in starting a node.
  * Ethos may be a node, but we're not sure if the ESSID is www.personaltelco.net. They had been interested in being a PTP affiliated node.
  * Tree issues still exist at the Bakery node on Mississippi.
 * Next Weekly will be at Amnesia Brewing. 
 * JaxBar needs to update their whiskey list.