Meeting Details
Location: CapuiasRestaurant
- Date: 02 Dec 2003
- Planned Start Time: 6:30PM
- Actual Start Time: 6:44PM
- Facilitator: ["Node491"] Capos
Scribe: TomHiggins
Role call: DonPark, NigelBallard, TomFitzgerald, JeffWillard, TomHiggins,
Old Business
RobertPetersen: "How do we market to newbs? work in progress.
TomHiggins: Databases delayed, requires DonPark. Postponed.
Continuing Business
MusashiHybrid: NewCloneArmyBox standard Questions. See NewCloneArmyInstallMethodology. MusashiHybrid and KeeganQuinn are working on finishing documentation. KeeganQuinn wants to actually work on this documentation during the meeting. KeeganQuinn says an automated install image is about a month away.
Holiday Party. See HolidayParty2003 - Define categories and winners to announce at party.
Awards
- The Most Used Node
- Most PTP Supportive Reporter
- Volunteere
- Local Services
- Most Abusive on IRC
- Longest Running Thread
Darrens Talk Food and Booze Live DJ (Keegan Darren battle of the sounds)
Nigel and Don are doing the offical invites
ITEC Coordination - Dec 10th&11th ITEC2003
The wonderfull people at Centric events who run ITEC have very kindly donated us space and an oppertunity to make a good show of our deeds at ITEC Portland 2003
DonPark is going to look into Using the Van We need to talk to Darren about print needs TomHiggins will print up some QC card and WC sheets
KeeganQuinn: The P-Com scoop. What is it good for and how does it work?
LOS links, Really fast , They are large and needs space , the outdoor units are heavy and wont fit on old masts. The gear is 38-40 ghz very LOS but lots of bandwidth capacity. The radio is part of the outdor unit so there is little loss. It is licensed though.
We have 3 pairs to play with.
1 pair could be used to link the Butte and Council Crest
Lots of FCC research needed before we turn these on.
TomHiggins: Review. Quick connect fliers get a facelift:
http://wsmf.org/ptp/QuickConnect2003b.pdf
New Items
NigelBallrd found a typo in the web pages, static front page
- The next PTP ubernode will be in a undisclosed mall. It will do B and G, there will be 3 nodes and cover the whole mall.
CityRepair Project cityrepair.org IN 1996 they did up a free public space and the city let it stand even though it wasnt to code. After it was closed folks gathered in Sellwood and set up a gathering place which after some wrangling was accepted by the city. Because of this the city has enacted some laws allowing nieghborhoods to do cool projects. One of those projects was the TEa Horse.
THe Project help neighboorhoods building up projects. There is a definte interest for working with the PTP to building connected spaces and
- Greg joins us from the Town of Halsey. The town has 600 people with a central grain silo. The town wants to go wireless. They are fluid enough to be able to raise funds to get the infrastructure going. They lack easy access fiber and the only ISP covering the town has the lock on price. They are looking for a solution
Resolved Items and Notes
TomHiggins: Client Boxes: The use of machines that are not useful as AP's. Consensus is that it's a good idea. There is a need for such machines to be able to load X.
38Ghz [http://www.p-com.com P-Com] could be donated to PTP if there is a worthy project for the gear. Possible use to make a super PTPNet?