Location: NodeAmnesia
Date and Time: Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 6:30pm-8:00pm
Scribe: MichaelWeinberg
Roll Call: RussellSenior, TroyJaqua, ChristopherChen

Agenda

• Annual Board Meeting

  • Refresh BoardOfAdvisors

  • Select officers for coming year
  • Old Business
  • New Business

    • LinuxCon Technology Showcase participation

    • SkyPilot evaluation

    • OneWebDay2009, opportunity to pimp publicly-owned fiber

Notes

• 7:06pm Meeting Called to order.

• 7:06pm RussellSenior moves to elect MichaelWeinberg to the Board of Advisors. Seconded and unanimously approved. MichaelWeinberg may speak at this meeting.

• 7:07pm Russell moves to nominate JorenLove and MarinoDuregon to the Board of Advisors, pending their acceptance of nominations. Unanimously approved. Joren and Marino will be e-mailed.

• 7:11pm RussellSenior is selected as the President for the coming year. TroyJaqua will remain Treasurer and ChrisChen will assume the role of Secretary.

• 7:12pm Troy confirms that PTP taxes have been filed for 2008.
• 7:13pm Russell deposited $34.63 from the United Way (originated from and Intel employee payroll donation).

• 7:14pm PTP must file corporate renewal with the State of Oregon. Russell will replace MichaelWeinberg as the registered agent. Renewal fee is $50.

• 7:17pm Discussion of potential expansion of the Board of Directors to 5 seats, with 2 at-large seats. Primary concern is identification of candidates. Numerous potential candidates are mentioned, but it's not clear that there are obvious choices at this point.
• Board Meeting is adjourned and discussion moves to regular business.

• Still looking forward to making Whiffies a node. Russell suggests it may be possible to connect to NodeCommunitecture from Whiffies.

• Intel donated a new server (Iris) to PTP. It is installed at Stephouse and hosted for free.

• LinuxCon has offered PersonalTelco to host a table in their Technology Showcase for free. The event is September 21-23 at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront, and we need volunteers to staff the table.

  • ChrisChen suggests we demonstrate our centralized node management and monitoring.

• PersonalTelco is involved in the planning of OneWebDay2009.

  • Currently, the event does not have a clear focus, but Russell is hoping to make the focus Publicly-Owned Fiber.
    • We need to get content up on portlandfiber.com explaining our ideas.
    • We need a snappy slogan or two.
  • As part of the WGTCab replacement project, we now have a lot of Linksys WRT54G units that could be handed out as a "Share Your Internet for a Day" theme.

• PersonalTelco has received two SkyPilot devices for evaluation.

  • Russell has dismantled one of them to see what's inside.

  • Without SkyGateway, we can't test their function, because you can't connect the SkyPilot via Ethernet.

  • They run Linux, and should be reflashable with a custom-rolled OpenWRT style firmware.
  • Russell thinks reuse of the parts is probably more realistic than using the hardware as-is.

• ChrisChen thinks we should resurrect the idea of Neighborhood Captains.

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