Location: NodeUrbanGrindBR Date and Time: Wednesday, June 27th, 6:30pm BR Scribe: YouBR Roll Call: ThemBR

Agenda

• Someone will do greeting and introductions
• Candidates for the Upcoming Elections will Present their Platform

  • MichaelWeinberg

  • SamChurhill (a position speech, despite having declined the nomination)

• Break

• CalebPhillips will give a talk on WirelessMeshRouting protocols (BenJencks may contribute)

  • This talk is listed on FreeSkoolPortland [http://portland.freeskool.org/?q=node/536 here]

• Status Reports (Education, Finance, ...)

Notes

• Russell intros, we meet a new friend, and we are off

• MichaelWeinberg gives a quick overview of his platform

  • attract more members
  • become better at fund raising
  • build out the tech

• SamChurchill gives some ideas and bows out of the race.

• The top webpage needs to be made better for both geeks and non geeks if we are going to get more use.
  • Open contest..Design the new PTP webpages
    • top page/nav/ etc
    • News, calender, video/audio, documents, wiki, etc
• Tshirt...are on order, should be here for OSCON
  • XXL is the top of the heftyboy scale...
• Freegeek Fair Sat July 21st
• Don needs to transfer the OSCON info over the Board asap so that we can get things finalized
• Russell fixed more nodes..by himself...and tactfully pleads the case that more PTP members need to be on the ground looking for broken nodes, possible node, and other such maintenance.
  • The idea of stickers at the nodes to get problem reports "In case of no connectivity contact...."
  • Adopt a node needs to come back in force
  • Cacti/heartbeats/active pings to monitor the nodes up/down
• break

• we are back and it is time for CalebPhillips to give his talk.

  • [http://www.personaltelco.net/~caleb/pubs/mesh_routing.pdf pdf can be found here]

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