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Location: UrbanGrind
Date and Time: June 28, 2006 6:30pm
Scribe: MichaelWeinberg

Agenda

  • Introductions
  • Board of Directors nominations
  • NodeRedandBlack Jun 21

  • NodeUglyMug Jun 14

  • NodeLuckyLabNW June 7

  • OSCON table
  • Education Committee: PTP U. CD, PTPHandbook Progress
  • Mississippi update
  • Finance Committee: Troy's update. Taxes 2005

Notes

  • RussellSenior delivers tedious PTP Civics lesson.

  • RussellSenior is nominated for secretary. Gave a video presentation featuring an unmanned rocket blowing up. This is his metaphor for PTP without his leadership.

  • TroyJaqua is not here, but he is nominated for treasurer again.

  • Node updates:
    • NodeRedandBlack has been resurrected. It was a node, but then it was disconnected, but it is now a node again. Much thanks to Brian from CorporateBig. DonPark recommends that weekly meetings be held at broken nodes so that we can fix them while gabbing about Wifi.

      • Fixing broken nodes is good, but we don't seem to get much done in the way of discussion and planning... -CalebPhillips

  • OSCON is July 26th on
    • We have a table and one full pass that we can pass around between folks who work the table.
    • There are usually many parties with hosted bars if you come to the Exhibit Hall and get invited by the hosts.
    • Exhibit Hall is free (with your e-mail address), conference pass is around $1000.
  • Education Committee. CalebPhillips is assuming the education role. MichaelWeinberg suggests KeeganQuinn for the position, for a more *colorful* education effort. DonPark would like us to have an education document that we can give to node hosts to help them learn and manage their own nodes.

  • MississippiGrantProject updates:

    • RussellSenior later finds his missing ethernet cable. CalebPhillips was innocent.

    • NAYA based Cisco is back online.
    • The Black Rose Collective still has a 1.5M circuit that wants to be tied into the Mississippi Network.
    • We have multiple repeaters running on the street with a new WGT firmware.
    • RussellSenior has still not climbed on the NAYA roof.

    • BenjaminJencks wants to remove NAT from all the repeaters.

    • MichaelWeinberg defends NAT because the repeaters are essentially CPEs and are serving small networks in homes and businesses.

    • TomFitzgerald suggests using 200mbit Powerline Ethernet devices to distribute the network.

    • RussellSenior encourages those with "good ideas" for Mississippi to show up and work on them.

  • Finance Committee
    • Money we received:
      • We got $67 in donations
      • $500 from LinuxFund

      • $300 from Aetna in honor of RobertPetersen's work

      • Received 2 checks from United Way
    • Things to buy:
      • Mississippi spent about $600
      • WiSpy spectrum analyzer. Current model analyzies 2.4 GHz. There should be a new model this summer with an external antenna connector and 5.8 GHz capabilities.

  • Other business:
    • NodeHollywood needs attention.

      • MichaelWeinberg reprovisions the DSL circuit and the connection comes back to life.

    • There are cries for Nagios to be resurrected.

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