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. Mentioned that Willamette Week is doing a writeup. Asked for interesting anedotes. Second item, Intel's webcam at the UrbanGrind Coffee Shop (where this meeting is being held). Gave credit to Intel and the people from the Intel Social Research group.

Introductions: Husband and wife are working on non-profit group for delivering low cost WiFi for low income communities. Asked for technical help. Others; PSU CS student, works on IP law. The president of OakTree introduced himself. OakTree hosts the most popular hotspot in Portland, on the South Park blocks. Others, amateur radio operator, and several others.

6:50pm: DarinEden: Brought out membership forms. Introduces Tom Fitzgerald. Tom is working at Intel and introduced Harold Vines with cool new toys. Harold now lives in the (downtown) Pearl district and uses the WorldCup PTP node daily. As mobility platform honcho, he's been 13 years at Intel and lately new architecture and usage models. Recap; Intel's Centrino launched year ago, since the initial launch growth exceeded all analysists expectations. Now working on next year's platform models- mobile entertainment is one push. Harold demoed the large mobile desktop that looks like a large laptop but with a different keyboard layout and, of course, may other differences. The machines have been demoed elsewhere (we'll make a link).

• Three models:

(1) The Florence looks like a portable, 17" flatscreen. You can watch tv, do PVR, or surf. Very portable with handle on top and battery powered. HDTV capable. (2) Demoed the small battery owerated keyboard and mouse/bluetooth handset radio. The handset links to flatscreen via bluetooth and does VoIP. (3)