The Personal Telco Project

Community Wireless Networking

Aaron Baer

Treasurer

http://www.personaltelco.net/

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What, Who, Where..... Why?

What is The Personal Telco Project?

How do we work?

Where can I find you?

What are you doing?

How can I get involved?

What's next?

Why do you do what you do?

Why do you do what you do?

Our Mission Statement

We are here to promote and build public wireless networks through community support and education.

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Yeah.. But Seriously...

Community Involvement

We're geeks alright!

Ground Breaking Organization

Empower an alternative model for Community Communication and Data Access

Ownership of communication

Cool Toys

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What is The Personal Telco Project

501(c)3 Non Profit

Oregon Corporation

100% Volunteer

Group of interested citizens

You and Me and Them too

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How do we work?

We work because people make us work

Obligations of being a 501(c)3 Corporation

Ad-hoc

Decentralized

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Where can I find you?

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www.personaltelco.net

On the Internet

essid of wireless net around Portland

IRC

Mailing Lists

Node Maps

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What are you doing?

Mississippi Grant Project

OSCON

Working with local business

Providing Documentation

PTP University

PTPnet

Experimenting

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How can I get involved?

Monthly Meetings

Weekly Meetings

Mailing Lists

Show up

Have an Idea and Do it!

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What's next?

Better Volunteer retention

Non-Geek Factor

More Grants

Interconnected Networks

Neighborhood Networks

New “Nodes”

Keep on Keepin' on

Who really knows

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Contact and Other Info

Aaron Baer

aaronb@personaltelco.net

http://www.personaltelco.net/

http://www.personaltelco.net/static/contact.html

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