Personal Telco Monthly Meeting for May 26th 2004

When and Where

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

Wednesday, May 26th, 6pm-9pm

Agenda

• 6:00PM - Introduction to Personal Telco for newcomers.
• 6:30PM - New node announcements
• 6:45PM - Harold Vines from the Intel Mobile Tech Group
• 7:30PM - Business followed directly by informal meet and greet.

Speaker

Harold Vines holds a BSEE and MSCs from Stanford University and an MBA from UC Berkeley. At night he dreams of a large project manager bear coming around and scratching big red tree programmers. Currently he is the Manager of Mobile Technology Evangelism at Intel, where he has worked for 13 years.

7:30p Harold will present the features, benfits and new usages of the Intel 2005 Mobile Internet Concept Platform.

As always, our presenter is thanked for allowing my abuse of his bio.

Agenda Items

• Fund Raisers
• World Wide War Drive Info
• Workshops/Playdays

  • - Distros and Methods to set up a Node( TomHiggins )

• Project Tracking ( http://wiki.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/ProposedProjects )

• Park To Park Field Day
• Membership

• Stats..ie How are the PTP Nodes doing (TomHiggins)

Meeting Notes

6:30pm: DarinEden welcomes everyone, introduces the mission of PersonalTelco and officers in organization.

6:40pm: NigelBallard takes mike for new member introductions. Update on PREN: currently running tests, has 2 pre wimax base stations one on Shriner Hospital and other on the downtown Ondine building by Portland State University. Updates will be on www.joejava.com Connection will be through 100 Meg fiber connection on Shriner and one on 10Meg on the Ondine. Is talking with city of Portland to potentially feed 6 rooftops with city.