Location: JaxBar
Date and Time: Wednesday, August 27th, 2008, 6:30-8:00pm
Scribe: MichaelWeinberg
Roll Call: SteveTree, SamChurchill, BenJencks, RussellSenior, JoeChristiensen, RickLindahl, KeithLofstrom

Agenda

• Call for board agenda items
• Annual Board Meeting
  • Selection of Officers
  • Accounting
  • Other board business
  • Closing of board meeting
• Recap of Ben and Mike's meeting with Motorola
• Volunteer cards
• New node updates

• GeekFair report

• Choose location for next weekly

Notes

• Call for board agenda items:
  • Not an agenda item, but Rick reports issues with the homepage using IE7
  • Also not a board item, but Russell wants to plan for more volunteerism
  • Board item - vote whether we should add 2 additional board seats to be chosen by the October Monthly
• Annual Board Meeting
  • Russell motions to appoint all meeting attendees who have been to more than one meeting to the board of advisors if they elect to be. Michael seconds. Passed.

    • RickLindahl, SteveTree, SamChurchill and BenJencks accept.

  • Russell motions to allow non-advisors to talk at the board meeting. Seconded. Passed.
  • Board votes to maintain current officer positions.

    • President - MichaelWeinberg

    • Treasurer - TroyJaqua

    • Secretary - RussellSenior

  • Russell needs to reimburse himself $500 for travel to CWN Summit in May '08, as previously approved by the board.
  • After debate, board votes to add 2 director positions with election at October meeting.
  • Board Meeting is closed.
• Motorola is lobbying the public safety departments of Clark, Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties to upgrade/replace the existing communications systems as a group along with some form of public access wireless Internet service. Ben and Mike met with them over dinner to discuss their ideas and provide some feedback.
  • This led to a larger discussion of public wireless and other public broadband.
• Michael shows off the PTP volunteer business cards that any volunteer can use.
• Node updates

  • NodePixelFace near Richmond School and NodeSeth

  • NodePeteForsyth was plugged in

  • Another node was plugged in at SE Holgate and 65th, but only port 80 was open at last reporting.

  • NodeIntegrity has been expanded and Wifidog was turned off due to undiagnosed (as yet) problems. Help with diagnosis would probably lead to resolution.

  • There was a NodeLightHouse outage report from a user.

  • Bridgeport Alehouse on SE Hawthorne is interested in becoming a node. Russell is meeting with them tomorrow.

  • A NodeArborLodge user has moved and is now interested in starting a node.

  • Ethos may be a node, but we're not sure if the ESSID is www.personaltelco.net. They had been interested in being a PTP affiliated node.
  • Tree issues still exist at the Bakery node on Mississippi.
• Next Weekly will be at Amnesia Brewing.

• JaxBar needs to update their whiskey list.