Location: Jitsi
Date and Time: Wednesday, May 3, 2023, 5:30pm-8:00pm
Scribe: You
Roll Call: RussellSenior,JasonBergstrom,JonArmani,ThomasSuckow,TedBrunner
Agenda
- Pick location for next weekly
- Node notes:
NodeMississippi -- Russell stopped by the Mississippi Ballroom building on Monday and got a lead on the current property managers, capitalpdx.com, also noticed that they also manage a property a couple doors north of NodeCrowBar, sent a message via their website "Contact Us" form. Also, still working on locating some hardware in the basement, so the work party this week is off until we have a firm appointment to get in the building.
NodeArborLodge -- think about replacing SkyPilots
NodeBeulahLand -- think about replacing SkyPilots
NodeC3PO -- the NanoBeam is still on the roof of our host, maybe should consider decommissioning it
NodeGooseHollow -- the AP on the second floor of FehrenbacherHof is unreachable (unplugged? bad PoE injector?)
NodeLuckyLab -- second AP in the meeting room is unreachable (not new behavior, think it's the ethernet)
NodePrinceton -- ap2 seems unreachable
NodeSechzig -- ap1, ap2 and ap3 seem unreachable, the gateway works
- Russell works on organizing our financial statements for 2022
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Notes
- Node notes
NodeArborLodge & NodeBeulahLand - replace SkyPilots with modern hardware
NodeC3PO - remove NanoBeam from roof of host, would not make a good AP
NodeGooseHollow, NodeLuckyLab, NodePrinceton, NodeSechzig all have APs offline
NodeMississippi - still want to drop by, but key no longer fits the lock (quite old), new management company capitalpdx.com. They asked about a contract for roof access, seem to now have this, but same company also manages taller building to the South
NodeLuckyLabNorth - retrieve equipment from Garry
NodeKailash - Annapurna status? We were going to provide MR24s
Russell requested an retraction to an old Tribune article that maligned PTP as MetroFI https://www.portlandtribune.com/news/library-bridges-citys-digital-divide/article_a8490aa5-99ba-5618-9e6b-e9fbc6b5ede4.html
Russell sent financials over to finish filing CT-12 (Jason will mail before the weekend), Russell also updated PayPal to replace Adam Shand as contact.
- P.O. Box auto renews this month (about $197), Union Bank Branch closes the end of this month.
Meeting last Friday for ARPA for AfroVillage. Point to point between Street Roots and another building, with outdoor wifi, city was supportive as an experiment
- Need to get into new Street Roots building (3rd/Burnside), possibly Russell and Ted can see the building next week
- Rebecca hopes to get grant agreement by the end of the month to pass before City Council
Also have educational component, interns will come from FreeGeek
- Municipal Broadband Coalition of America - monthly meeting included Jennifer and Sarah - suggested renamed to "community broadband" and no longer trying to convince policy makers
- Suggested setting up something similar to rural "Broadband Action Teams" where we would talk to groups to do urban neighborhood teams
- Maybe fund PAC to drive candidates for council
Buy Ubiquiti U6LR for testing, use at AfroVillage and NodeMississippi
Ted considering giving a talk at BattleMesh Barcelona, next week. UPDATE: just kidding. Don't see a way to do interactive video.
Discussed in-person next Wednesday at NodeCrowBar 6:30pm