Location: Jitsi
Date and Time: Wednesday, August 5, 2020, 6:30pm-8:00pm
Scribe: JasonBergstrom
Roll Call: RussellSenior,TomasKuchta,JasonBergstrom,TedBrunner,SteveTree

Agenda

• Annual Board Meeting

  • Appoint a BoardOfAdvisors

  • Appoint officers
  • Endorse PDX Privacy Facial Recognition letter
  • Other business
• Pick location for next weekly
• Node notes:

  • NodeFreshPot -- Russell visited on Monday, they are open (counter at the door), inquired about the network, counter staff didn't know, I left a note with contact info and requested a callback. A card would probably have been better, but didn't have one at the time.

• Your Item Here

Notes

• Annual Board Meeting
  • Convened at 7:15pm

  • RussellSenior voted TomasKuchta to Board of Advisors, TedBrunner seconded, motion passed

  • Appoint officers, RussellSenior moved that roles remain the same, TedBrunner seconded, motion passed

    • Roles: RussellSenior - President, TedBrunner - Treasurer, JasonBergstrom - Secretary

  • Discussed petition from ChrisBushick on an immediate end to the government's use of face surveillance

    • Approved by board as an org-supported petition
  • Russell has not contacted DoJ on CT-12, nor completed corporate filing

  • RussellSenior voted to augment Board of Advisors to include SteveTree

  • RussellSenior voted to adjourn the Board Meeting, TedBrunner seconded, motion passed

  • Adjourned at 7:30pm
• Node notes:

  • NodeFreshPot - Russell left contact info, will look for email address for node (would be old info)

  • NodePrinceton - One AP was down, rebooted AP3 to recover ethernet interface

  • NodeWeidler - still needs a switch

• EFA call - last Thursday, reporting on PTP and Municipal Broadband PDX
  • Ernesto Falcon - reported on legislation efforts, current US House bill for Covid relief includes $80B half of which is earmarked for funding local efforts of broadband. Ernesto wants to have text require 100Mb symmetric.
  • Incumbents have lay people write letters on their behalf (astroturf).

  • "No One Left Offline" project in San Francisco to collect donations to support providing connections (via incumbents), appears to be 501c3. FreeGeek did not do research on group, but appears legit.

  • Article in Willamette Week on Comcast Internet Essentials being insufficient for remote learning.
  • Chattanooga, TN (EPB) has provided internet to low-income households at no cost.

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