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'''15 January 2002 - Wireless Network Organization in Spain'''
 MadridWireless is working in Spain to build a wireless community and we are about to finish an open model to build local communities in the country. You can have a look at [http://madridwireless.net/network-structure.shtml the document], at the moment only in spanish or the [http://debaser.ath.cx/jorgegv/como-montar-nodo.html HOWTO-Wireless-Node]. You also can see [http://debaser.ath.cx/jorgegv/plan-direccionamiento.html our IP plan]. We will see us in the waves.

'''10 January 2002 - Easy Street Endorses Personal Telco'''
 EasyStreet has publicly posted an [http://www.easystreet.com/services/personal_telco.html endorsement] of the PersonalTelco Project. This is an exciting first step for cooperation between CommunityNetworking groups and local ISP's.

'''3 January 2002 - Monthly meeting Wed Jan 30th 6PM'''
 The next PersonalTelco meeting will be Wedensday January 30th at the LuckyLab Brew Pub, check out the MonthlyMeeting page for details and directions.

'''3 January 2002 - Lucky Lab says OK to DSL'''
 Management at the LuckyLab brewpub, home of PersonalTelco meetings, has said OK to the ordering of a QWEST DSL line! This clears the way for us to install wireless ethernet hardware and have our first public access point in a commercial establishment.

'''31 December 2001 - Wireless Summit 2002'''
 SeattleWireless is hosting the next community WirelessSummit. Member from wireless groups from all around the world are attending and you can too! The meeting will be rolled into one of the SeattleWireless monthly meetings, expect a laid back and relaxed atmosphere. More details are available on the SeattleWireless:SummitJanuary2002 page.

'''14 December 2001 - Happy Holidays!'''
 Well our one year anniversary has been and gone and we're starting to get a lot of very cool stuff done as prices drop and our experience grows. Since many of us (myself included) will be out of town over christmas there will be no MonthlyMeeting in December. See you all again after New Year! -- AdamShand

'''30 November 2001 - Open Letter to the FCC on Spectrum Policy'''
 Please take a moment to read through Kevin Werbach's [http://www.edventure.com/conversation/article.cfm?Counter=9420340 open letter] to the FCC, which encourages them to allow UltraWideBand and open up significant new bands for unlicenced usage.

Current news is kept on the FrontPage. You can find archives of older news items (kept for posterity) here.

15 January 2002 - Wireless Network Organization in Spain

10 January 2002 - Easy Street Endorses Personal Telco

3 January 2002 - Monthly meeting Wed Jan 30th 6PM

3 January 2002 - Lucky Lab says OK to DSL

  • Management at the LuckyLab brewpub, home of PersonalTelco meetings, has said OK to the ordering of a QWEST DSL line! This clears the way for us to install wireless ethernet hardware and have our first public access point in a commercial establishment.

31 December 2001 - Wireless Summit 2002

  • SeattleWireless is hosting the next community WirelessSummit. Member from wireless groups from all around the world are attending and you can too! The meeting will be rolled into one of the SeattleWireless monthly meetings, expect a laid back and relaxed atmosphere. More details are available on the SummitJanuary2002 page.

14 December 2001 - Happy Holidays!

  • Well our one year anniversary has been and gone and we're starting to get a lot of very cool stuff done as prices drop and our experience grows. Since many of us (myself included) will be out of town over christmas there will be no MonthlyMeeting in December. See you all again after New Year! -- AdamShand

30 November 2001 - Open Letter to the FCC on Spectrum Policy

28 November 2001 - Monthly Meeting

  • Not only do we have two speakers this MonthlyMeeting but it's also our one year anniversary, come talk wireless and have a beer with the crew! Speaking first is Jim Binkley a professor from PSU who's been researching AdhocRouting, MobileIp and ["IPv6"] with regards to wireless for years. Second up is Marc Visnick a lawyer who is willing to host a question and answer session about becoming a NonProfit. See you there!

31 October 2001 - Monthly Meeting

  • Last night we have our October MonthlyMeeting and the MeetingNotes are available. The highlight of the meeting was MichaelCodanti showing up with the ["FujitsuStylistic1000"]s, DonPark giving stickers away and Robert Behnke giving a talk on intelligent traffic systems and how a community network could solve the world's traffic congestion problems. ;) Bob's talk should be availble online soon as this was our first experiment in recording meetings.

18 October 2001 - BAWUG meeting live online

  • BaWug had their last meeting live online with decent quality streaming video and audio (mostly). There were two presentations, one from Microsoft about 802.1x and a second from a startup called UltraDevices discussed their 802.11a meshed routing software. Around 20 people attended the meeting from the web (with well over 100 at the meeting itself), while hanging out in an IRC chatroom to ask questions. A very nice demonstration. Their meetings are a little more formal than ours. The meeting video should be up on their site (in various formats) soon.

03 October 2001 - Play Day Two!

  • Revenge of PlayDay! Daughter of PlayDay! Come one, come all! DanRichardson is hosting the 2nd Personal Telco PlayDay back in the Hollywood District on Oct 21st. Bring your ideas, bring your gear, bring your friends (leave the rain at home!). The goals thusfar include MadHoc repeating, mass Stylistic / NoCatAuth loading (software loading & node stress testing).

26 September 2001 - Monthly Meeting @ the Lucky Lab

  • It's time for another MonthlyMeeting at the LuckyLab! Last month EliabHelon gave an "Intro to 802.11 Standards" talk. It seemed alot of people had questions about the OSI model in general, not relating to the 802.11 family of standards. This month he will go into more detail about the OSI network model in general. The information will also be available on the OpenStandardsInterconnectModel page.

25 September 2001 - Personal Telco live at ITEC

  • AdamShand, DanRichardson, MichaelCodanti, and DonPark have finished the setup at the EasyStreet booth at ITEC. Admission is free with registration at the door. They are currently running an Apple AirPort connected to an 8db omni with a 1watt amp. NoCatAuth is the active portal software running on a Stylistic 1000. You can pick up the signal outside the convention centre if you want to try. :) Come on down, visit and help out! You can chat with the guys live on IRC at irc.openprojects.net #personaltelco.

17 September 2001 - Personal Telco goes to ITEC

  • Rich Bader, the president of EasyStreet, has offered the opportunity to setup a PersonalTelco node at this years ITEC conference. We will be sharing EasyStreet's booth and giving 4 half hour talks at 11:30AM and 2:00PM on both days. More information on the ItecConference page, come see us there!

11 September 2001 - New York Terrorist Attack

10 September 2001 - Philosophy Meeting

  • Tonight at the LuckyLab there is a small meeting to discuss exactly what the goals, dreams and hard practical reality of all the community networking stuff actually is. Hopefully we'll have the answers to life the universe and everything by tomorrow morning.

09 September 2001 - Defcon Presentation Available Online

07 September 2001 - Monthly Meeting

  • The MonthlyMeeting for September will be back at our old stomping grounds, the LuckyLab [http://www.luckylab.com]. This locally owned brewpub sells fine beer and good(read: greasy) pub food. Their back room has ample seating for 30 people.

28 August 2001 - Gannett Article

25 August 2001 - Monthly Meeting

  • The MonthlyMeeting is upon us once again. Please come and join us this Wednesday the 29th of August at the Rose and Raindrop. There will be a presentation on 802.11 basics by EliabHelon at 7:00pm so bring your questions! As always the agenda is available at the MeetingAgenda page.

19 August 2001 - Play Day a Roaring Success!

15 August 2001 - Play Day Aproaches - Gannett Interview!

  • With 12 people confirmed coming, a 40 foot tower, and an ActivePortal machine, the PlayDay is sure to be an event to not be missed! Added a PlayDayAgenda as a straw-dog for what the timeline is going to happen on Sunday - basically, if you get there early, you can help shape what we do that day. Gannett also called DanRichardson yesterday, and interviewed him about the upcoming Playday! Lots of questions about the legalities of what we're doing, as well as ticking off the ISP's. Article to be released in a week - watch for it!

07 August 2001 - Two Articles Released

  • It's been a big week. In addition to all the other stuff on this page we've also discovered two articles about us today. Details on the PressCoverage page.

07 August 2001 - Web Site 2.0 Rolled Out!

  • Thanks to everyone that pitched in and worked on the web site (some of you late into the night, just look at the RecentChanges!). We got a lot done including rolling the BetaSite into production, categorized most of the information on the Wiki, eliminating a huge amount of typos and generally taken a bit step towards a better web site!

    Special thanks to Carol, Michael and Scott who went above and beyond the call of duty! As a side note when I categorized the pages some of your names got over written by mine in RecentChanges so it looks like I did a lot more work then I really did :-).

06 August 2001 - The First Play Day Announced

  • DanRichardson announced the first official equipment PlayDay on the MailingList today. If you have some equipment and want to experiment to see what works (and doesn't work) with other gear ... this is the place to be. RSVP is expected if you plan on showing up, check it out! If you sign up, please list your PlayDayEquipment and list your PlayDayToDo items!

27 July 2001 - Next Monthly Meeting is Scheduled

  • LucasSheehan has announced the date of the next MonthlyMeeting. It is scheduled for the RoseAndRaindrop on the 29th of August. We are still looking for speakers, if you have something you know about and are willing to talk about please speak up! If you are interested you can check the MeetingAgenda for ideas.

24 July 2001 - Monthly Meeting Held

  • The July monthly meeting was held and, as usual, progress was made! The main point of interest were the creation of SpecialInterestGroup's which grew from the decision that actually physically meeting with each other was more productive then online collaboration. More notes are available at the MeetingJuly2001 page.

14 July 2001 - Adam Speaks at Defcon

11 July 2001 - T-Shirts are On The Way

  • The brave (foolish?) few willing to put their money where their mouth was, have each generously donated $100 towards the printing of the first and only run of "Alpha Geek" T-Shirts. LonnieWormley is heading up design team and those that coughed up cash are cajoling him to make them "the right way".

10 July 2001 - The Wireless Supply Guy Opens Shop

  • MichaelCodanti has kindly been acting as the unofficial wireless equipment purchaser for many of the WirelessCommunities in North America. He has been getting some screaming deals so if you need anything to help get your node up, let him know!

25 June 2001 - Wireless Summit Meeting Update

  • The head honcho's of several WirelessCommunities from around North America converged on Portland for a WirelessSummit. There was much discussion of the future, wireless geeking, bragging of achievements and general fun. Full notes are available at the SummitJune2001 page.

5 June 2001 - PDX Wireless Releases Dynamic Node Map

23 May 2001 - We Have an Official Logo!

  • Thanks to the tireless efforts of LonnieWormley we now have an official logo (which you see proudly displayed on every page).

25 April 2001

25 April 2001

23 April 2001

  • A possible offer to get Avaya (aka. WaveLan, Lucent, Orinoco) gear at cost plus shipping!

22 April 2001

28 March 2001

07 March 2001

26 February 2001

  • Our first real meeting at the LuckyLab. It was a huge success.

22 February 2001

  • Our first media contact. A local freelance writer interviews AdamShand about the PersonalTelco project. Hopefully an article will be forth coming.

18 December 2000

  • Our first meeting at the Ram's Head in Northwest Portland.

12 December 2000

  • The web pages reach some semblance of useful. Yay!

10 December 2000

  • Wow, 45 people on the list, cool!

07 December 2000

  • I gave a very brief introduction to the PersonalTelco project at the monthly [http://www.pdxlinux.org/ PLUG] meeting. There was a lot of interest and we talked about idea's for over an hour afterwards. I also got to meet the guys from PdxWireless. They had a lot of ideas as well and are a little farther along in actually building a community.

30 November 2000

  • In a bought of enthusiasm AdamShand registered personaltelco.net.

28 November 2000

  • After reading about [http://consume.net consume the net] I fire off message to the Portland linux users group mailing list and discover a lot of other people are interested as well. A web page and a mailing list are born soon afterwards.

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