'''Location:''' UrbanGrind<<BR>>
'''Date and Time:''' June 28, 2006 6:30pm<<BR>>
'''Scribe:'''  MichaelWeinberg

'''Agenda'''
 * Introductions
 * Board of Directors nominations
 * NodeRedandBlack Jun 21
 * NodeUglyMug Jun 14
 * [[NodeLuckyLabNW]] June 7
 * OSCON table
 * Education Committee: PTP U. CD, PTPHandbook Progress
 * Mississippi update
 * Finance Committee: Troy's update. Taxes 2005

'''Notes'''
 * RussellSenior delivers tedious PTP Civics lesson.
 * RussellSenior is nominated for secretary. Gave a video presentation featuring an unmanned rocket blowing up. This is his metaphor for PTP without his leadership.
 * TroyJaqua is not here, but he is nominated for treasurer again.
 * Node updates:
  * NodeRedandBlack has been resurrected. It was a node, but then it was disconnected, but it is now a node again. Much thanks to Brian from CorporateBig. DonPark recommends that weekly meetings be held at broken nodes so that we can fix them while gabbing about Wifi.
    * Fixing broken nodes is good, but we don't seem to get much done in the way of discussion and planning... -CalebPhillips
 * OSCON is July 26th on 
  * We have a table and one full pass that we can pass around between folks who work the table. 
  * There are usually many parties with hosted bars if you come to the Exhibit Hall and get invited by the hosts.
  * Exhibit Hall is free (with your e-mail address), conference pass is around $1000.
 * Education Committee. CalebPhillips is assuming the education role. MichaelWeinberg suggests KeeganQuinn for the position, for a more *colorful* education effort. DonPark would like us to have an education document that we can give to node hosts to help them learn and manage their own nodes.
 * MississippiGrantProject updates:
  * RussellSenior later finds his missing ethernet cable.  CalebPhillips was innocent.
  * NAYA based Cisco is back online.
  * The Black Rose Collective still has a 1.5M circuit that wants to be tied into the Mississippi Network.
  * We have multiple repeaters running on the street with a new WGT firmware.
  * RussellSenior has still not climbed on the NAYA roof.
   *Incidentally, TroyJaqua has just arrived.
  * BenjaminJencks wants to remove NAT from all the repeaters. 
  * MichaelWeinberg defends NAT because the repeaters are essentially CPEs and are serving small networks in homes and businesses.
  * TomFitzgerald suggests using 200mbit Powerline Ethernet devices to distribute the network.
  * RussellSenior encourages those with "good ideas" for Mississippi to show up and work on them.
 * Finance Committee
  * Money we received: 
   * We got $67 in donations
   * $500 from LinuxFund
   * $300 from Aetna in honor of RobertPetersen's work
   * Received 2 checks from United Way
  * Things to buy:
   * Mississippi spent about $600
   * WiSpy spectrum analyzer. Current model analyzies 2.4 GHz. There should be a new model this summer with an external antenna connector and 5.8 GHz capabilities.
 * Other business:
  * NodeHollywood needs attention.
   * MichaelWeinberg reprovisions the DSL circuit and the connection comes back to life.
  * There are cries for Nagios to be resurrected.