Current news is kept on the FrontPage. You can find archives of older news items (kept for posterity) here.
28 November 2001 - Monthly Meeting
Not only do we have two speakers this MonthlyMeeting but it's also our one year anniversary, come talk wireless and have a beer with the crew! Speaking first is Jim Binkley a professor from PSU who's been researching AdhocRouting, MobileIp and ["IPv6"] with regards to wireless for years. Second up is Marc Visnick a lawyer who is willing to host a question and answer session about becoming a NonProfit. See you there!
31 October 2001 - Monthly Meeting
Last night we have our October MonthlyMeeting and the MeetingNotes are available. The highlight of the meeting was MichaelCodanti showing up with the ["FujitsuStylistic1000"]s, DonPark giving stickers away and Robert Behnke giving a talk on intelligent traffic systems and how a community network could solve the world's traffic congestion problems.
Bob's talk should be availble online soon as this was our first experiment in recording meetings.
18 October 2001 - BAWUG meeting live online
BaWug had their last meeting live online with decent quality streaming video and audio (mostly). There were two presentations, one from Microsoft about 802.1x and a second from a startup called UltraDevices discussed their 802.11a meshed routing software. Around 20 people attended the meeting from the web (with well over 100 at the meeting itself), while hanging out in an IRC chatroom to ask questions. A very nice demonstration. Their meetings are a little more formal than ours. The meeting video should be up on their site (in various formats) soon.
03 October 2001 - Play Day Two!
Revenge of PlayDay! Daughter of PlayDay! Come one, come all! DanRichardson is hosting the 2nd Personal Telco PlayDay back in the Hollywood District on Oct 21st. Bring your ideas, bring your gear, bring your friends (leave the rain at home!). The goals thusfar include MadHoc repeating, mass Stylistic / NoCatAuth loading (software loading & node stress testing).
26 September 2001 - Monthly Meeting @ the Lucky Lab
It's time for another MonthlyMeeting at the LuckyLab! Last month EliabHelon gave an "Intro to 802.11 Standards" talk. It seemed alot of people had questions about the OSI model in general, not relating to the 802.11 family of standards. This month he will go into more detail about the OSI network model in general. The information will also be available on the OpenStandardsInterconnectModel page.
25 September 2001 - Personal Telco live at ITEC
AdamShand, DanRichardson, MichaelCodanti, and DonPark have finished the setup at the EasyStreet booth at ITEC. Admission is free with registration at the door. They are currently running an Apple AirPort connected to an 8db omni with a 1watt amp. NoCatAuth is the active portal software running on a Stylistic 1000. You can pick up the signal outside the convention centre if you want to try.
Come on down, visit and help out! You can chat with the guys live on IRC at irc.openprojects.net #personaltelco.
17 September 2001 - Personal Telco goes to ITEC
Rich Bader, the president of EasyStreet, has offered the opportunity to setup a PersonalTelco node at this years ITEC conference. We will be sharing EasyStreet's booth and giving 4 half hour talks at 11:30AM and 2:00PM on both days. More information on the ItecConference page, come see us there!
11 September 2001 - New York Terrorist Attack
This morning the country is shocked by an attack that destroyed the World Trade Towers in New York. Our hearts go out to the families of the victims in this tragedy. TerrySchmidt has posted some pictures he took and you are free to use or mirror. The [http://www.nycwireless.net/Images/wtc first pictures] and then later, [http://www.nycwireless.net/Images/wtc2 more pictures].
10 September 2001 - Philosophy Meeting
Tonight at the LuckyLab there is a small meeting to discuss exactly what the goals, dreams and hard practical reality of all the community networking stuff actually is. Hopefully we'll have the answers to life the universe and everything by tomorrow morning.
09 September 2001 - Defcon Presentation Available Online
You can download the Power Point[http://www.shmoo.com/wi/wi.ppt presentation] or just browse the [http://www.shmoo.com/wi/wi.htm HTML] version on the ShmooGroup's site. You can also listen to this [http://www.eyetraxx.net/defcon/mp3/026/026.MP3 recording] in mp3 format. Thanks to Gary for making these available.
07 September 2001 - Monthly Meeting
The MonthlyMeeting for September will be back at our old stomping grounds, the LuckyLab [http://www.luckylab.com]. This locally owned brewpub sells fine beer and good(read: greasy) pub food. Their back room has ample seating for 30 people.
28 August 2001 - Gannett Article
A new [http://www.gannettonline.com/e/trends/11000064.html article] mentioning DanRichardson and the PlayDay is out. More information on the PressCoverage page.
25 August 2001 - Monthly Meeting
The MonthlyMeeting is upon us once again. Please come and join us this Wednesday the 29th of August at the Rose and Raindrop. There will be a presentation on 802.11 basics by EliabHelon at 7:00pm so bring your questions! As always the agenda is available at the MeetingAgenda page.
19 August 2001 - Play Day a Roaring Success!
About 15 people, and a huge amount of gear showed up for the first (monthly?) PlayDay. The tower was raised around 2pm, with a 1 watt amplifier and omni, plus an ethernet converter on its own omni. A NoCat CaptivePortal was installed, as well as one or two other networks. Several of us went driving around the area with a 3 foot Yagi out the sun-roof. We gathered a lot of packets and a lot of wierd looks, but got about 2 miles away and still had connectivity! Everyone who attended is encouraged to write up what they did, learned, and want to do next time in PlayDayNotes.BR [http://www.temple-baptist.com/~omega/playday/08192001/images/ Pictures by Erik Walthinsen] ([http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~mahldcat/ mirror] [http://www.theimagedepot.com/php/layerbrowser.php?oneup_dir=/img/&directory=%2Fimg%2FPlayDay_1 mirror_2]) [http://www.theimagedepot.com/php/layerbrowser.php?oneup_dir=/img/August_2001/&directory=%2Fimg%2FAugust_2001%2FPlayDay_1 Pictures by Dan Richardson]
15 August 2001 - Play Day Aproaches - Gannett Interview!
With 12 people confirmed coming, a 40 foot tower, and an ActivePortal machine, the PlayDay is sure to be an event to not be missed! Added a PlayDayAgenda as a straw-dog for what the timeline is going to happen on Sunday - basically, if you get there early, you can help shape what we do that day. Gannett also called DanRichardson yesterday, and interviewed him about the upcoming Playday! Lots of questions about the legalities of what we're doing, as well as ticking off the ISP's. Article to be released in a week - watch for it!
07 August 2001 - Two Articles Released
It's been a big week. In addition to all the other stuff on this page we've also discovered two articles about us today. Details on the PressCoverage page.
07 August 2001 - Web Site 2.0 Rolled Out!
Thanks to everyone that pitched in and worked on the web site (some of you late into the night, just look at the RecentChanges!). We got a lot done including rolling the BetaSite into production, categorized most of the information on the Wiki, eliminating a huge amount of typos and generally taken a bit step towards a better web site!
Special thanks to Carol, Michael and Scott who went above and beyond the call of duty! As a side note when I categorized the pages some of your names got over written by mine in RecentChanges so it looks like I did a lot more work then I really did :-).
06 August 2001 - The First Play Day Announced
DanRichardson announced the first official equipment PlayDay on the MailingList today. If you have some equipment and want to experiment to see what works (and doesn't work) with other gear ... this is the place to be. RSVP is expected if you plan on showing up, check it out! If you sign up, please list your PlayDayEquipment and list your PlayDayToDo items!
27 July 2001 - Next Monthly Meeting is Scheduled
LucasSheehan has announced the date of the next MonthlyMeeting. It is scheduled for the RoseAndRaindrop on the 29th of August. We are still looking for speakers, if you have something you know about and are willing to talk about please speak up! If you are interested you can check the MeetingAgenda for ideas.
24 July 2001 - Monthly Meeting Held
The July monthly meeting was held and, as usual, progress was made! The main point of interest were the creation of SpecialInterestGroup's which grew from the decision that actually physically meeting with each other was more productive then online collaboration. More notes are available at the MeetingJuly2001 page.
14 July 2001 - Adam Speaks at Defcon
In a joint PersonalTelco/ShmooGroup effort AdamShand and BrucePotter (with the last minute addition of Tony) gave a [http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-9-speakers.html talk] at Defcon on the basics of wireless insecurity, CaptivePortals, ActivePortals and some of their applications for WirelessCommunities. While it was a little last minute the talk went down very well and the only bad part was we ran out of time.
11 July 2001 - T-Shirts are On The Way
The brave (foolish?) few willing to put their money where their mouth was, have each generously donated $100 towards the printing of the first and only run of "Alpha Geek" T-Shirts. LonnieWormley is heading up design team and those that coughed up cash are cajoling him to make them "the right way".
10 July 2001 - The Wireless Supply Guy Opens Shop
MichaelCodanti has kindly been acting as the unofficial wireless equipment purchaser for many of the WirelessCommunities in North America. He has been getting some screaming deals so if you need anything to help get your node up, let him know!
25 June 2001 - Wireless Summit Meeting Update
The head honcho's of several WirelessCommunities from around North America converged on Portland for a WirelessSummit. There was much discussion of the future, wireless geeking, bragging of achievements and general fun. Full notes are available at the SummitJune2001 page.
5 June 2001 - PDX Wireless Releases Dynamic Node Map
CaseySpain releases a super-cool dynamic flash node map for the Portland area. See CaseysMappingSoftware and PdxWireless. Put your node on the map!
23 May 2001 - We Have an Official Logo!
Thanks to the tireless efforts of LonnieWormley we now have an official logo (which you see proudly displayed on every page).
25 April 2001
Our third Meeting! This time at the CoffeeCellar.
25 April 2001
DonPark has set us up so we can order PersonalTelco [http://www.cafepress.com/personaltp t-shirts, coffee mugs and mouse pads], right on! He uesd LonnieWormley's "Escape the Loop" Tower Logo.
23 April 2001
A possible offer to get Avaya (aka. WaveLan, Lucent, Orinoco) gear at cost plus shipping!
22 April 2001
TerrySchmidt has setup the first live PersonalTelco Site outside of Oregon! Welcome to [http://www.nycwireless.net/ NYC Wireless]. We're helping them out by hosting their site and mailing list.
28 March 2001
Our second meeting at the LuckyLab.
07 March 2001
AdamShand finally converts the web site over to a MoinMoin wiki:WikiWikiWeb after months of saying he will "Any Day Now".
26 February 2001
Our first real meeting at the LuckyLab. It was a huge success.
22 February 2001
Our first media contact. A local freelance writer interviews AdamShand about the PersonalTelco project. Hopefully an article will be forth coming.
18 December 2000
- Our first meeting at the Ram's Head in Northwest Portland.
12 December 2000
- The web pages reach some semblance of useful. Yay!
10 December 2000
- Wow, 45 people on the list, cool!
07 December 2000
I gave a very brief introduction to the PersonalTelco project at the monthly [http://www.pdxlinux.org/ PLUG] meeting. There was a lot of interest and we talked about idea's for over an hour afterwards. I also got to meet the guys from PdxWireless. They had a lot of ideas as well and are a little farther along in actually building a community.
30 November 2000
In a bought of enthusiasm AdamShand registered personaltelco.net.
28 November 2000
After reading about [http://consume.net consume the net] I fire off message to the Portland linux users group mailing list and discover a lot of other people are interested as well. A web page and a mailing list are born soon afterwards.