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
• 7:30PM - Business followed directly by informal meet and greet.

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.

8:15: Rob Peterson announcements; have a new node (didn't catch it), membership announcements and requirements were discussed. Rob philosophized that pay hotspots were good- they get the word out.

8:20: MichaelWeinberg talked about fund raising. The next fund raising is a raffle in September, tickets will cost $1 each and start in July. Looking for goods and services, Urban Grind Coffee Shop gave $10 in coffee, others include theatre tickets, etc. Contact Michael if you have ideas.

8:30: Bernard World Wide Wardrive: It's the 4th year, starts on June 12 through 19th to get as many nodes as possible. The idea: increases awareness of security. A website will exist to pubize the event and posted here on the PTP site.

8:40: Tom Higgins: Now the education coordinator. Project tracking. Since PTP is 501c3, we are keeping a wiki page where people can describe their project. Post your project and get together. Everyone can follow it. If you can place a monitory value on your project, post it. Then perhaps funding for grants, etc, could be found.

Playday; Breakout sessions include the public IP, Less Networks, other free hotspot hardware and software. Regularly schedule. Also a general discussion and meeting space.

Stats time...... With just 18 nodes worth of data the numbers are pretty amazing...Across those 18 nodes the PTP is averaging about 172.42 authentications per day.

Top ten nodes are:

Next month will be an open discussion forum.

8:40: DarinEden ajourns the June meeting.

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