Personal Telco Monthly Meeting for October 27th 2004
When and Where
Urban Grind Coffee 2214 NE Oregon St. (take 22nd Ave. 2 blocks North of Sandy Blvd.)
Wednesday, September 28th 6pm-9pm
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.
Agenda Items
- Wrap up of "October is Education Month"
- IRC - ptp sponsored node users help channel
- Designed for those node operators that have a free internet terminal
- Hack Nights to continue at Node236 through November
- PTP Lending Library
- Novemeber Networking - Focus on Building the PTPnet
- hack nights to hash out routing ideas and build more nodes
- playdate - make a perm los link between two nodes with routing
- document the mission, set out the plans to do it
HoodAreaNetworks conncted togther into the PTPnet
- books and other reading material to get up to speed and then some
- Ask a Question get an Answer
- November Monthly Meeting approval vote (Wed. prior to Thanksgiving, Nov. 16th)
- "I see London, I see France" reporting
- Holiday Party Date approval vote (Tue. Dec. 14th)
6:30pm: Aaron Baer begins meeting. Explains the basic goal and mission of Personal Telco. Hands off to Nigel Ballard for introductions.
6:35: Nigel Ballard holds up the airline magazine Insight, which has a three page article on free networks and PersonalTelco. Nigel was interviewed by reporters last week as part of Rick Lindaul's NW Wireless and Security show held in the Oregon Convention Center last week. About 5 people were new out of the 30 or so in Urban Grind tonight.
6:45: Tom Higgins, PTP's educational coordinator says 3 play days and hack nights, an EWRT workshop (which embeds NoCat on a Linksys 54G), and play day at UG and next month at UG will host a special session on security held in conjunction with a security group in town (DC503.org)
Tom says next month (November) is network month. There's going to be Wed night sessions 6-10pm at Tom's House on networking (tom@personaltelco.net)
6:50pm: Baer says that the irc@personaltelco.net (Internet Relay Chat) tool is a useful and popular tool. Tom Higgins mentions the PTP Lending Library which has dozens of great books that can be loaned out for a month for free. If you have any books you want to contribute to the lending library, see TomHiggins .