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Rick Lundall: Education Committe chair: Rick Lundall: Education Committe chair: Looking for school presentations as well as representatives in public venues. Asks for contacts within education. Talk to Rick. OMSI was suggested as a good contact. PTP working with OMSI would combine strengths of both organization.

Another item Rick brought up: PersonalTelco.com (a competiting, independent ISP with no connection or relation to PersonalTelco.net). No action item, a discussion point. Little discussion.

NEW BUSINESS

Aaron Baer brought up the possibility of a large spruce tree being used as a node. William Zimmer added that his SE location was also a possibility. Rick said a desiduous [sp] tree was a problem in the summer. There are practical problems but it works in one node in Borth Portland.

Joe said the Read Wing Bakery was interested in a hot spot service. Kegan did two installs recently.

Darrin explains: A PTP node uses a box with NoCat software that captures the WiFi with www.personaltelco.net. The city of Portland donated dozens of Pentium boxes so the issue is not hardware or software. We have that. If you need one, we have the hardware and software to do it. The box has a certain isolation from their own network but security cannot be the responsibilty of PTP.

Irving: Putting software on a Linksys AP WRT-54G was mentioned. Said would organize a PTP that would package the box and the software.

Nigel: Says that a small self-contained box with wifi cards and PTP software is the best solution. The Seattle Wireless folks have been leading much of this development. Nigel says he just got an email from Glenn Fleishman just wrote and asked if we have regular meetings. Nigel wrote back and said we're having one now.


Welcome to the Personal Telco's Monthly Meeting Wednesday Novemberer 19th @ Urban Grind Coffee

  • 6:00PM - Introduction to Personal Telco for new comers
  • 6:30PM - Meeting begins
  • DarrinEden is the group director

Internet Simulcast Information

The IRC channel for the meeting is on server irc.freenode.net at channel #ptp.

The Photos of the meeting are [http://www.personaltelco.net/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=November-2003 on the PTP Photo Gallery]

This meetings audio is being broadcast by KeeganQuinn with [http://thebasement.org/ The Basement Productions]. Streaming server URL: http://personaltelco.net:8000/status.xsl BR The streaming server hosts a constant looping broadcast of the most recent meeting, and live audio when meetings are in progress. The streams are in a somewhat new format called [http://www.vorbis.com/ Ogg Vorbis] - some information about compatible players is available [http://thebasement.org/sound/vorbis_info here].

Recordings of past meetings are archived: http://ptp.thebasement.org/meetings/

LIVE MEETING NOTES

November 19th, 2003:

6:00 pm:

LIVE MEETING NOTES: November 19th, 2003:

6:00 pm: About 40 people are gathering at Urban Grind for the monthly meeting. Nigel Ballard and Darin Eden, president of Personal Telco are at table in the front of the room here we go:

Daren: Welcome remarks.

Nigel: Introduces self and asks new people to introduce themselves. About 3 people introduced themselves.

Nigel: Discusses the SuperNode site at the EcoTrust Building in the Pearl District. It serves Hot Lips Pizza, Panagonia, and other shops in the building as well as Jamison Square about a block away. It's connected via T-1 and uses a couple of Cisco 1200s.

Nigel: Shows a new HP box with two, 200 mW radios for bridging. Not much more information the box looks like a production mode. Nigel mentions a new 14 page magazine on restaurants in Portland. PTP (Nigel) was interviewed and is on the front cover. There will be 12,000 copies distributed tomorrow downtown.

Darrin: Next agenda reading of minutes from last month. Asked for members to approve. Was approved.

Darrin: Minutes of the Board Meeting: Had a meeting last week, focusing on more people to take responsibility. The goal is to get more people involved.

Law fees need to be resolved. A discussion is ongoing.

Rick Lundall: Education Committe chair: Looking for school presentations as well as representatives in public venues. Asks for contacts within education. Talk to Rick. OMSI was suggested as a good contact. PTP working with OMSI would combine strengths of both organization.

Another item Rick brought up: PersonalTelco.com (a competiting, independent ISP with no connection or relation to PersonalTelco.net). No action item, a discussion point. Little discussion.

NEW BUSINESS

Aaron Baer brought up the possibility of a large spruce tree being used as a node. William Zimmer added that his SE location was also a possibility. Rick said a desiduous [sp] tree was a problem in the summer. There are practical problems but it works in one node in Borth Portland.

Joe said the Read Wing Bakery was interested in a hot spot service. Kegan did two installs recently.

Darrin explains: A PTP node uses a box with NoCat software that captures the WiFi with www.personaltelco.net. The city of Portland donated dozens of Pentium boxes so the issue is not hardware or software. We have that. If you need one, we have the hardware and software to do it. The box has a certain isolation from their own network but security cannot be the responsibilty of PTP.

Irving: Putting software on a Linksys AP WRT-54G was mentioned. Said would organize a PTP that would package the box and the software.

Nigel: Says that a small self-contained box with wifi cards and PTP software is the best solution. The Seattle Wireless folks have been leading much of this development. Nigel says he just got an email from Glenn Fleishman just wrote and asked if we have regular meetings. Nigel wrote back and said we're having one now.


FEATURED PRESENTATION:


PTP Net:


Other New business:


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