• MeetingJune2006

Location: UrbanGrindBR Date and Time: June 28, 2006 6:30pmBR Scribe: MichaelWeinberg

Agenda

• Introductions
• Board of Directors nominations

• NodeRedandBlack Jun 21

• NodeUglyMug Jun 14

• ["NodeLuckyLabNW"] June 7
• OSCON table
• Education Committee: PTP U. CD, PTPHandbook Progress
• Mississippi update
• Finance Committee: Troy's update. Taxes 2005

Notes

• RussellSenior delivers tedious PTP Civics lesson.

• RussellSenior is nominated for secretary. Gave a video presentation featuring an unmanned rocket blowing up. This is his metaphor for PTP without his leadership.

• TroyJaqua is not here, but he is nominated for treasurer again.

• Node updates:

  • NodeRedandBlack has been resurrected. It was a node, but then it was disconnected, but it is now a node again. Much thanks to Brian from CorporateBig. DonPark recommends that weekly meetings be held at broken nodes so that we can fix them while gabbing about Wifi.

    • Fixing broken nodes is good, but we don't seem to get much done in the way of discussion and planning... -CalebPhillips

• OSCON is July 26th on
  • We have a table and one full pass that we can pass around between folks who work the table.
  • There are usually many parties with hosted bars if you come to the Exhibit Hall and get invited by the hosts.
  • Exhibit Hall is free (with your e-mail address), conference pass is around $1000.

• Education Committee. CalebPhillips is assuming the education role. MichaelWeinberg suggests KeeganQuinn for the position, for a more *colorful* education effort. DonPark would like us to have an education document that we can give to node hosts to help them learn and manage their own nodes.

• MississippiGrantProject updates:

  • RussellSenior needs his ethernet cable back from CalebPhillips.

    • Really? I don't think I have it. I will look... -CalebPhillips

  • NAYA based Cisco is back online.
  • The Black Rose Collective still has a 1.5M circuit that wants to be tied into the Mississippi Network.
  • We have multiple repeaters running on the street with a new WGT firmware.

  • RussellSenior has still not climbed on the NAYA roof.

    • Incidentally, TroyJaqua has just arrived.

  • BenJenks wants to remove NAT from all the repeaters.

  • MichaelWeinberg defends NAT because the repeaters are essentially CPEs and are serving small networks in homes and businesses.

  • TomFitzgerald suggests using 200mbit Powerline Ethernet devices to distribute the network.

  • RussellSenior encourages those with "good ideas" for Mississippi to show up and work on them.

• Finance Committee
  • Money we received:
    • We got $67 in donations

    • $500 from LinuxFund

    • $300 from Aetna in honor of RobertPetersen's work

    • Received 2 checks from United Way
  • Things to buy:
    • Mississippi spent about $600

    • WiSpy spectrum analyzer. Current model analyzies 2.4 GHz. There should be a new model this summer with an external antenna connector and 5.8 GHz capabilities.

• Other business:

  • NodeHollywood needs attention.

    • MichaelWeinberg reprovisions the DSL circuit and the connection comes back to life.

  • There are cries for Nagios to be resurrected.