Personal Telco Monthly Meeting for August 25th 2004

When and Where

Urban Grind Coffee 2214 NE Oregon St. (take 22nd Ave. 2 blocks North of Sandy Blvd.)

Wednesday, August 25th 6pm-9pm

Agenda

• 6:00PM - Introduction to Personal Telco for newcomers.
• 6:30PM - New Nodes and other announcements.
• 6:45PM - Elections
• 7:30PM - Business followed directly by informal meet and greet.

Agenda Items

• Raffle Kick-off

• NationalSummitAugust2004 report

• October is Education Month - Multiple playdays, "How Do I Use the PTPnet" workshops for users of the PTP nodes, Adopt a Document Drive, more.

Notes from August 25th Meeting, 6:30pm. Scribe: Sam Churchill

Notes

This is the annual meeting to elect Personal Telco leadership.

6:30pm: Darrin Eden took the stage and welcomed everyone. About 50 people in attendence.

• - Darrin says that he attended a national conference on Community LANs. I believe the conference was in Chicago (but your scribe could be mistaken). Darrin said that it was instructive and that many people look to PersonalTelco for leadership. Darrin hands off the meeting to Nigel Ballard.

6:35: Nigel Ballard says the Portland is known to have more (free) nodes than anywhere (still). Portland government, Nigel says, is an active participant and has been discussing a City Hall node. Nigel said he couldn't discuss further details but said the city was involved in interesting and exciting wireless developments.

• - Nigel asks new members to introduce themselves. Several new people. One guy showed off his new WiFi Toys book that was written by a San Diego WiFi group member. He attended one of their meetings earlier.

  - Another attendee is managing a mixed use space in North Portland and is planning a WiFi node in the space which also features gaming, laundry facilities, a coffee shop and other facilities. - Another person wants to put a node in an apartment building on Sylvan Heights (near the West hills). About 50 units and wooden frame building (good for wifi).

6:45: Darrin takes podium talks about at NW 23rd and Pettygrove (Vivace Coffee Shop).

6:48: Darrin says that PTP needs to elect a secretary and treasurer. Voting should be simple; their are two nominees for the two positions

• (1)Secretary - Robert Peterson (2)Treasurer - Aaron Baer

The suspense is building....the votes are being picked up...and tallied....

And now...the results......

• (1)Secretary - Robert Peterson (2)Treasurer - Aaron Baer

6:50: Robert Peterson has taken the stage and reviews some of his objectives. Someone asks about his position on Comcast Nodes. Peterson said "Comcast is evil". (Comcast doesn't allow sharing free service). He finds Comcast "onerous" since may areas in the region are only served by Comcast cable modems (DSL must be within 3 miles of the Central Office).

7:00: Aaron Baer has taken the stage and talks about financing. Says PTP has "about a grand" in dollars and 50 Pentium 450s from the City of Portland, lots of initiatives, grants and things. Talked to Fred Meyer Memorial Trust representative who said that Meyers would be interested in PTP projects. "We can do it", said, Baer.

Aaron says Google Adsense has been started on PTP's Wiki. Don Park explains that AdSense is generating $6-$7/day from 300 or so daily visitors.