WeeklyMeeting20030218 - Personal Telco Project

Location: LinuxFund BR

Date: 18 February 2003 BR Planned Start Time:7 PM BR

Actual Start Time: 7:07 PM BR

Scribe: LonnieWormley BR Role call: BR

Agenda:

Are we as a group going to exclude the users of commercial access points even though these commercial access points meet all the *functional* requirements of the mesh network design? (round to five min intervals, write length of time spent on item)
- List what the functional requirements are needed to place an access point on the PTP network. If this can not be done in 10 minutes, then assign a team to do research and present findings to the next weekly meeting.
- The Functional requirements findings should be presented for discussion and acceptence by vote during the next monthly meeting.
Discuss how decisions about network design are determined and finalized for adoption by PTP.
- If this can not be done in 10 minutes, then assign a team to do research and present findings to the next weekly meeting.
NoCat Splash page
- The splash page needs revisions and updates. A team needs to work on this so that it can be distributed on Soekris boxes.
  - Fix the CSS so that it works in IE.
  - Test on all available hand held computers
Multi-hop packaging experiment for a high foot traffic locality.

*Reorganization nodes DB renaming by neighborhood

New node update
- Inquire about any new nodes and get the primary person to give updates on progress.
Business Outreach team
- Briefly give update on meeting and action items.
- Meeting minutes WeeklyMeeting13February2003

Meeting

AaronJohnson was the facilitor and review meeting format.
PTP managed node is recommended hardware. The OPs team should only care about.
- ESSID www.personaltelco.net
- NoCat
Discuss how decisions about network design are determined and finalized for adoption by PTP.
- This is an Ops team or under the domain of the ManSig group.
- There needs to be a group formed to activly work on this question.
- There is no density yet to consider this question.
- This issue willl be discussed when there is node density and the ManSig starts up.
NoCat Splash page
- Defered for next meeting for AndrewWoods
- Later after all action items it was decided by voting that the splash page be compliant with WC3 and a team is formed to make this happer.
- The team so far has Andrew Woods and if anyone wants to join they can work with him.
Multi-hop packaging experiment for a high foot traffic locality.
- You pick a district and try to put together 20 boxes and then deploy them.
- Include a contract for a T-1 so that a AlphaNode is created and then members of the business coop would share the cost.
- DarrinEden and TomOfferman will work on this and want to propose changing the meeting of the Business Outreach meetings to a later time.
New node update
- Nodes by neighborhoods
  - NodeDB has this function so input has to be input correct
  - It was voted on to do nodes by neighborhood using the Portland City map.

Action Items