This is a transcription of http://oxygen.thebasement.org/ptp/web/meetings/200306/ptp-meeting-200306-3-adam.ogg

Hey everybody, ah there's some new faces. Um, there's a few Im recognizing here. I'm Adam Shand. I was the guy who started this, uh a couple years ago now i guess. um. So primarily this is just here to say bye to everyone. uh I got a job offer and I'm heading back to New Zealand to go work for the company that does all the special effects for the Lord of the Rings. so um, I'm out of here this Friday. and they gave me a little under three weeks to acutally get there. so, i haven't been around for a while and I'm probably not gonna be around on the mailing lists or anything for a while to come until I hope to resubscribe in a month or something once im settled and have an apartment and all that stuff and keep poking around. at least until my term of president is officially up. um heh heh. ah.

I want to say a couple things. ah The first is I believe uh , so we got, sorry, my term as president is up in august. I got a one year term after we first became a non-profit last year. uh. This month's meeting, um everybody that was nominated as a potential presidental candidate was going to have a moment to get up and speak. I assume we havent gotten to that point yet. Um as far as i know nigel is the only one that has been nominated yet, um though I assume we'll probably get some more. I just wanted to uh weigh in and say that uh Nigel's been around pretty much since the very beginning. um he's mostly been the public face of PTP for over a year now since I got busy and wasnt able to talk to reporters. Nigel always had a job that liked him when he talked to people. My jobs always got grumpy with me when I went outside to talk to a reporter for half an hour. So um I think nigel has already been doing a lot of the presidential duties. Certainly well known around town both among the press, local businesses, the city, so i think that could be a pretty valuable.. valuable connections and I think he's a pretty good choice for the.. for the role. Hopefully we'll get at least one other person nominated, if nothing else give him a run for his money. But I dont know if anyone else wants the job. (banter)

So I was thinking the other day, and I kind of realized that theres really two dreams that are wrapped up in PTP and I just I just wanted to take a moment and talk about those. cause I think they're both important and I think they're both quite different. and i think its important that we rememeber that there are two different parts of this. the first part and i think the reason why a lot of people are here is because wireless is really interesting, its really fun, and people like being able to go to coffee shops to check their email, hang out, talk to people online, download stuff, whatever. Um there are a lot of people who are involved because they want to learn about wireless they want to learn about computers and they want to be able to have sort of casual free access to the Internet. Thats really cool, but that was never what got me excited about PTP. That was never the part of it that I really loved. What I really liked about it is the idea that we can use all of this technology.