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

Agenda Items


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 Wednesday 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 .

Next month is Thanksgiving. So meeting will be moved to 3rd Wednesday instead of the 4th Wednesday which is the 17th of November at Urban Grind.

Aaron send out a email on the general list which asked "what can you see from your house". The idea is to interconnect. Aaron would like to connect to three different nodes. DonPark said take panorama pictures and email them to DonPark. Michael Greenburg asks who has a node and what can they see. Sam Churchill (your scribe) mentioned the Multnomah County's Title Wave Book Store computers. They don't have an operating system or CD but (I) picked up a Pentium III 550Mhz machine for $15.

Nocternal near Burnside and 21st is partially unwired. There internet connection is not actually in the office. Nocternal is combination dancehall and coffee shop.

Rick Lindaul said the Beaverton Public Library is looking to install a PTP.

Aaron Baer pitched the idea that Metrix Networks (with SeattleWireless) has node kits which could be used to link nodes together.

Someone says...hey there's a total eclipse of the moon outside....break....

7:20: Were back. Spectacular. Wow.

7:25pm: Michael Weiburg announces a HOLIDAY PARTY...Tuesday, December 14th at Nocternal, 18th and Burnside. Michael will DJ. Details being worked out. See Michael W.

New PTP node: Old Town Pizza is getting free Wifi via PTP and Aaron Baer. On Davis in old town Portland. Aaron says there are a couple of new nodes but people can't recall at the moment.