Location: UrbanGrindBR Date and Time: May 31, 2006 6:30pmBR Scribe: CalebPhillips BR

Agenda

• Introductions

• Gregg Swanson of HumaniNet will be talking about [http://www.humaninet.org/events.html Simulation Day] (June 15)

• Adhocracy application introduction by KeeganQuinne

• July Board of Directors election in July (two spots)

• NodeHollywood relocation update, NodeLuckyLabNW

• NodeCommunitecture install report & photos

• OSCON table
• Education Committee: PTPHandbook Progress

• Mike Rogoway from Oregonian is headed to Cali to do a Metro Fi field test. Wants to know what he should try to gauge performance. -MichaelWeinberg

• Finance Committee: Troy's update. Taxes 2005

Notes

• DonPark does introductions, says hello, and summarizes agenda

• GreggSwanson takes over discussion and gives his talk

  • Hands around some [http://www.iridium.ru/engindex.htm Iridium Satellite Phones]

  • Gives general overview of purpose and recent activities of HumaniNet

  • Wants to form TechReach - a sort of NationalGeekReserve

  • Funding: a few donors, some grants out there, some commission

  • SimulationDay on June 15th

    • Scenario: tsunami off the oregon coast
    • Have several tasks, including setting up a multihop link

  • Slides will be available on the [http://www.humaninet.org Humaninet website]

• KeeganQuinn gives a question-directed demo of ["Adhocracy"]

  • What it is, what it does
  • The pretty pictures it makes
  • Other nifty features
  • What is on the horizon
  • Keegan, Tom, and Tom exchange esoteric (but amusing) banter

• Upcoming elections (presented by RussellSenior)

  • Two board positions (Secretary and Treasurer) will be filled at the next BoardMeeting (July)

  • Discussion of the Bylaws

• Update on NodeHollywood (going up next Saturday)

• NodeLuckyLabNW going up soon, need to find volunteers and set a data

• NodeCommunitecture went up

• OScon2006. We have a table. Need volunteers.

[CategoryMeetingNotes]