'''Location:''' NodeAmnesia<<BR>>
'''Date and Time:''' Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 6:30pm-8:00pm<<BR>>
'''Scribe:''' MichaelWeinberg<<BR>>
'''Roll Call:''' RussellSenior, TroyJaqua, ChristopherChen<<BR>>

'''Agenda'''

 * Annual Board Meeting
  * Refresh AdvisoryBoard
  * Select officers for coming year
  * Old Business
  * New Business
   * LinuxCon Technology Showcase participation
   * SkyPilot evaluation
   * OneWebDay2009, opportunity to pimp publicly-owned fiber

'''Notes'''

 * 7:06pm Meeting Called to order. 
 * 7:06pm RussellSenior moves to elect MichaelWeinberg to the AdvisoryBoard. Seconded and unanimously approved. MichaelWeinberg may speak at this meeting.
 * 7:07pm Russell moves to nominate JorenLove and MarinoDuregon to the AdvisoryBoard, pending their acceptance of nominations. Unanimously approved. Joren and Marino will be e-mailed.
 * 7:11pm RussellSenior is selected as the President for the coming year. TroyJaqua will remain Treasurer and ChristopherChen will assume the role of Secretary.
 * 7:12pm Troy confirms that PTP taxes have been filed for 2008.
 * 7:13pm Russell deposited $34.63 from the United Way (originated from and Intel employee payroll donation).
 * 7:14pm PTP must file corporate renewal with the State of Oregon. Russell will replace MichaelWeinberg as the registered agent. Renewal fee is $50.
 * 7:17pm Discussion of potential expansion of the Board of Directors to 5 seats, with 2 at-large seats. Primary concern is identification of candidates. Numerous potential candidates are mentioned, but it's not clear that there are obvious choices at this point.
 * Board Meeting is adjourned and discussion moves to regular business.
 * Still looking forward to making Whiffies a node. Russell suggests it may be possible to connect to NodeCommunitecture from Whiffies.
 * Intel donated a new server (Iris) to PTP. It is installed at Stephouse and hosted for free.
 * LinuxCon has offered PersonalTelco to host a table in their Technology Showcase for free. The event is September 21-23 at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront, and we need volunteers to staff the table. 
  * ChristopherChen suggests we demonstrate our centralized node management and monitoring.
 * PersonalTelco is involved in the planning of OneWebDay2009. 
  * Currently, the event does not have a clear focus, but Russell is hoping to make the focus Publicly-Owned Fiber.
   * We need to get content up on portlandfiber.com explaining our ideas.
   * We need a snappy slogan or two.
  * As part of the WgtCab replacement project, we now have a lot of Linksys WRT54G units that could be handed out as a "Share Your Internet for a Day" theme.
 * PersonalTelco has received two SkyPilot devices for evaluation.
  * Russell has dismantled one of them to see what's inside.
  * Without SkyGateway, we can't test their function, because you can't connect the SkyPilot via Ethernet.
  * They run Linux, and should be reflashable with a custom-rolled OpenWRT style firmware.
  * Russell thinks reuse of the parts is probably more realistic than using the hardware as-is.
 * ChristopherChen thinks we should resurrect the idea of Neighborhood Captains.

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