• MeetingMay2025

Location: NodeLuckyLabNW
Date and Time: Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 6:30-8:00 p.m.
Scribe: You
Roll Call: JasonBergstrom,MatthewKlug,TedBrunner,RussellSenior,SteveTree

Agenda

• Node notes:

  • NodeKlickitat -- replaced one Archer C7 in the mesh with an E8450, watching for stability

  • NodeLutz -- JasonBergstrom and RussellSenior did some mapping, cable management, and device organizing, somewhat tidier than before.

• PO Box renewed until end of May 2026, $210.
• FUTEL fiscal sponsorship:
  • money in
  • money out

• BoardOfDirectors election, coming in July:

  • AnnualMembersMeeting2025

  • Must be a member by MeetingJune2025 to vote

  • Open nominations
• Report on EFF talk on Rayhunter (Stingray spotter)

• Review ToDoList2025

Notes

• Russell attended a Consumer Reports conference, looking for experience with consumers under Oregon law
• Node notes:

  • NodeLutz - re-cabled

  • NodeLuckyLabNW - Gary has run cables to the brewery and meeting room

    • Jason will offer bar to move external AP behind window
      • Need ERX gateway device

  • NodeKlickitat - Russell is replacing the Archer C7 with some success

    • unrelated 100Mb event fixed with upgrade of PoE injector, different link has a 10Mb issue fixable with reboot

  • NodeBeulahLand - need to contact about roof node

• Russell talked with https://www.hillsboro-oregon.gov/services/hilight

• FuTel received another grant along the way

  • consumers have damaged handsets, now on to later version
• In order to vote for the board member opening, you need to be a member by the June Monthly meeting. Nominations are open now
• Ted went to the EFF Stingray presentation May 14, cell site singular, EFF developed software to track stingrays, heavily deployed in Washington, DC. Whitepaper "Gotta Catch Them All", generally newer generation phone protocols better prevent interception.

• DNC conference 2024 found one StingRay. 2G downgrade is a clear visual that there is an attack

• Interest in meeting with SimaKumar (Chief at Office Of Community Technology), Russell will have a meeting in June

• Ted's buddy has a Wi-fi event in Corbett

[CategoryMeetingNotes]