Location: LinuxFundBR

Date: 18 February 2003 BR Planned Start Time:7 PM BR

Actual Start Time: 7:07 PM BR

Scribe: LonnieWormley BR Role call: BR

DarrinEden, DatNguyen, NatPowning, AaronJohnson, DonPark, TomOffermann, StevenSchroedl, AdamShand, BrianBeattie

Agenda:

• Are we as a group going to exclude the users of commercial access points even though these commercial access points meet all the *functional* requirements of the mesh network design? (round to five min intervals, write length of time spent on item)
  • List what the functional requirements are needed to place an access point on the PTP network. If this can not be done in 10 minutes, then assign a team to do research and present findings to the next weekly meeting.
  • The Functional requirements findings should be presented for discussion and acceptence by vote during the next monthly meeting.
• Discuss how decisions about network design are determined and finalized for adoption by PTP.
  • If this can not be done in 10 minutes, then assign a team to do research and present findings to the next weekly meeting.

• NoCat Splash page

  • The splash page needs revisions and updates. A team needs to work on this so that it can be distributed on Soekris boxes.
    • Fix the CSS so that it works in IE.
    • Test on all available hand held computers
• Multi-hop packaging experiment for a high foot traffic locality.

*Reorganization nodes DB renaming by neighborhood

• New node update
  • Inquire about any new nodes and get the primary person to give updates on progress.
• Business Outreach team
  • Briefly give update on meeting and action items.

  • Meeting minutes WeeklyMeeting13February2003

Meeting

• AaronJohnson was the facilitor and review meeting format.

• PTP managed node is recommended hardware. The OPs team should only care about.
  • ESSID www.personaltelco.net

  • NoCat

• Discuss how decisions about network design are determined and finalized for adoption by PTP.

  • This is an Ops team or under the domain of the ManSig group.

  • There needs to be a group formed to activly work on this question.
  • There is no density yet to consider this question.

  • This issue willl be discussed when there is node density and the ManSig starts up.

• NoCat Splash page

  • Defered for next meeting for AndrewWoods

  • Later after all action items it was decided by voting that the splash page be compliant with WC3 and a team is formed to make this happer.
  • The team so far has Andrew Woods and if anyone wants to join they can work with him.
• Multi-hop packaging experiment for a high foot traffic locality.
  • You pick a district and try to put together 20 boxes and then deploy them.

  • Include a contract for a T-1 so that a AlphaNode is created and then members of the business coop would share the cost.

  • DarrinEden and TomOfferman will work on this and want to propose changing the meeting of the Business Outreach meetings to a later time.

• New node update
  • Nodes by neighborhoods
    • NodeDB has this function so input has to be input correct
    • It was voted on to do nodes by neighborhood using the Portland City map.

Action Items

AndrewWoods

• Present NoCat splash page projects.

DatNguyen

• Responsible for coordinating getting this done.

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