= Personal Telco Monthly Meeting for Febuary 23rd 2005 =
== When and Where ==
Urban Grind Coffee
2214 NE Oregon St.
(take 22nd Ave. 2 blocks North of Sandy Blvd.)

Wednesday, Febuary 23rd 2005. 6:00pm - 9:00pm

= Agenda =
 * 6:00PM - Introduction to Personal Telco for newcomers.
 * 6:30PM - New Nodes and other announcements.
 * 7:00PM - Business followed directly by informal meet and greet.

= Audio =

 * http://www.personaltelco.net/~tom/podcast/rss.xml
 * http://www.personaltelco.net/~tom/podcast/PTPFeb232005.mp3

== Agenda Items ==
 
 * New Node Announcements
  * DarrinEden announces Foxfire Teas - NE Fremont and 46th. He describes the area and the quick 2 hour install. :) He describes the kids playing area and the fireplace. Says to check the area out.
   * http://wiki.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/Node673
  * AaronBaer talks about completing Node674 on NE Rodney and Skidmore using a Metrix Mark I and a 9dBi Omni. Great coverage from this setup. 
   * http://wiki.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/Node674
  * Aaron also talks about Veganopolis and a crowded spectrum on 2.4Ghz in the area. TomHiggins and AaronBaer used a WRT54G and loaded openwrt to provide coverage within the whole space. Aaron says the owners encourage people to come and hang out.
   * http://wiki.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/Node676
  * Irving and Brandon talk about flashing ewrt onto a Linksys wrt54g and installing it in bar15. We talked about essid use and the need for roaming integration. ewrt 0.3 beta-1 is out! applause
  * Aaron Talks about Madrona Hill on NE Ainsworth and Greeley. He talks about using a client bridge to the owners house for the internet connection.
   * http://wiki.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/Node675
  * RobertPetersen talks about using 5 WDS capable AP's and bridging the whole network @ Node625 WestoverTowers. Considers which nodes to use as bridges. Options are presented including Fusium, Node495, and Irving Park.
   * http://overlook.personaltelco.net/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi
     
 * Other Announcements
  * DarrinEden reminds everyone that Personal Telco University is in session.
  * Mack, owner of UrbanGrind coffee and TomHiggins agree to work on a NodeOwnersWorkshop. 

 * Hack Nights
  * Darrin talks about the difference between the monthly and weekly meetings TomHiggins hosts a WeeklyMeeting at Node236 which offers a hands on approach to developing ideas and resolving current software and hardware issues. 

 * SSID Consistency
   * All Personal Telco Project nodes require a consistent name of "www.personaltelco.net". This is for the purpose of roaming between access points.
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