Location: NodeUrbanGrind
Date and Time: Wednesday, October 24, 2007, 6:30-8:00pm
Scribe: RussellSenior
Roll Call: SamChurchill, TomFitz, RussellSenior, MichaelWeinberg, MartinSochrman, DonPark, RickLindahl, BruceVirell, PaulLeddy
Agenda
- Node notes
- Project ideas
- City Letter of Support
RickLindahl on Muniwireless Convention
Consume super-delicious mexican chocolate cake from NodeCrema
Notes
MichaelWeinberg does introductions
- Russell tediously discusses node operations
- mentions the soekris reflash today
- mentions the outage repair
- mentions the outage
mentions the presentation to the BoiseNeighborhoodAssociation and followup article for BoiseVoice, pleas for involvement:
- yourselves
- your ideas
- your roofs
- your bandwidth
- your money
- desire to do some workshops, hand out some missnet gear
- wires crossed
- not being able to connect normally, ideas for replacing gear
- stalled, gear ready to go, node host hasn't signed off.
- flakey access point, replaced with Buffalo WHR-HP-G54
- restored WDS, removing one failed device and reconfiguring
- mention marshmallow ooze
- Russell mentions the hardware grant idea
- Mike talks about project ideas
- Tsunami alert
- Emergency alert sent via special nodes
- Office space
- lincoln tower (virtual office space) barter?
- Education
- DVDu
SethShikora talks about obstacles
- Rick mentions providing end-user help to connect to neighborhood wireless
- Lots of positive response to ideas for short video content, followup to follow
- DVDu
TomFitz talks about a Rockwood network, Russell encourages him to do it.
MichaelWeinberg asserts that while strategic partnerships with for-profit service providers are good, Personal Telco volunteers should not do the work of ad-supported networks by freely extending their coverage.
- Eat delicious cake
- Rick talks about interactions at MW'07.