Don Park

Contact Info

Email: donp shift-2 personaltelco.net
Homepage: http://www.personaltelco.net/~donp/
Work/School Info page: http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~parkd
GPG Key: http://www.personaltelco.net/~donp/gpgkey.txt
Personal Telco Node: http://www.personaltelco.net/Node74
Personal Telco Position: President Aug 2005 to Aug 2007
President's Blog: http://www.livejournal.com/users/doncam/tag/personaltelco

ToDos

• 10Jul06 pocketmod.com page for missip configuration; page for ptp node list
• 30May06 membership opinion poll
• 5May06 node support plan; restore requesttracker; get multiple people looking at info@ptp
• 8Mar06 do another bike stumbling run; work on better analysis
• 8Mar06 try openwgt build with vfat/fat32 support
• 15Feb06 read up on boston city wifi
• 15Feb06 contact cityrepair - MHCC grant. VBC wireless class.
• 15Feb06 look up low volt rules for running enet in cafes etc.

• 6Feb06 print http://www.freepress.net/wifi/wireless_practices.pdf many times

• 1Feb06 consider http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/grants/us/programs/tech_community/ (shot down)

• 14Jan06 PTP Newsletter article
• Nov05 DWT Milt Stewart DONE
• Nov05 Contact Wendy Socha EFF Lawyer
• Nov05 Host a wireless summit?
• Nov05 Look for new grant lead
• Nov05 PTP Tower flag
• 05Jul win election; repurpose society through wifi

• 05Apr cafes need something that brings the lappy users together. see CafeSocialSoftware

• 04Jun Audit every node in NodeDB via bikestumbler
• 04Jun Point Wiki logins at profile db
• 04Jun Add zeroconf to nodes and ap radar
• 04Aug Adhocracy Design Documentation
• 01Nov Collaborate with freegeek hardware database
• 01Dec Rooftop Hardware Documentation Kits
• 01Dec statement against patent #6,789,110

• 01Dec read Philidelphia no-wifi-competition law Bill Summary Bill Text

• 17Dec04 Learn about OLSR and TBRPF

• 5Jan05 Possible SingleSignon Tech http://lid.netmesh.org/

The Adhocracy

User Profiles

Hardware Inventory

Node Catalog

Interests

Interests: Bluetooth, Distributed computing, Sensor Networks, Java, Cycling, Camping, Sustainable Living

On ricochet-type networks: Cell phone carriers have spent years of time and millions of dollars on creating cell phone coverage. They have been moving too slowly on using these networks as a data service. The best Ive seen is using a cell phone as a hayes-modem to dial up a land line. With the advent of pcmcia and compact flash wireless ethernet, it seems possible to have enough enthusiasts put up self-owned access points to make a wireless pda useful in Portland. (30Mar2001)

Ive been sucked into the PDA industry for a while now. Ridden the rise and fall and rise of Bluetooth. Seen public 802.11 go from a dream to real free, real fast reality. Its time for OSes to start seeing each other automatically and present this information to the user. Node and service discovery will be very fun and useful for wireless users and suprizingly important to wired users as well. [www.sun.com/jini Jini] and [www.jxta.org JXTA] seem to be stalled by their lack of openness, but still well worth looking into further. A suprizingly open standard is Universal Plug and Play or [www.upnp.org UPnP] - RFCs have been submitted and it specifies the wire procotol in a non-language and non-OS specific way. Intel already provides an Open Source linux stack at upnp.sourceforge.net. A linux/windows client app to show all discovered nodes and services could really be popular amongst wireless community groups. (28 Feb 2002)

If you watch the NodeStatusPages, look for the MAC of my Cisco Aironet 340 of 00:40:96:48:D5:A7

projects

The Broacast XML project (May 2002) http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/BroadcastXml

AP Radar A netstumbler/wireless association manager http://apradar.sourceforge.net

links

Ad-Hoc protocol list (note HSLS, being used by cuwin project) (May 2003) http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/a/ad-hoc-protocol-list.html

IEEE 802.11 a,b,g specs (PDF) http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/802.11.html

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