Location: ["NodeUrbanGrindNW"] BR Date and Time: Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 6:30pm-8:00pmBR Scribe: RussellSeniorBR Roll Call: SaraHonsberger, MichaelWeinberg, RussellSeniorBR
Agenda
- Pick location for next weekly
- Russell plays with hardware:
- recovered or rebuilt (mostly) a stock of half-a-dozen or so nucabs that had been pulled for various problems, including:
the old NodePioneerSquare, with the Senao 200 mW radio, but without the standard "builder" node goodies so far
- a few were recovered intact, because the error did not require rebuilding from scratch
- a few are new debian etch installs that would need more love to become standard node captive portal boxes
- reconstructed a crashbox for wifi driver and hardware testing (originally set up to debug the missnet). Currently plugged in are one of the 10 netgear WG311T pci card radios we have for use as client devices on mississippi:
- atheros radio
- 30 mW
- rp-sma connector (compatible with those nice, inexpensive 9 dBi suction-cup patch antennas)
- could be put into an old nucab box or freek box as a neighborhood bridge
- we have 20 netgear pcmcia cards that currently do not have working linux drivers. we need a plan to distribute these things somewhere other than a box on the top of my bedroom dresser. preferably somewhere they will do someone some good.
- recovered or rebuilt (mostly) a stock of half-a-dozen or so nucabs that had been pulled for various problems, including:
- Need to outline what needs saying to the Boise Neighborhood Association meeting next monday. If anyone wants to come along for moral and intellectual support, that would be cool as well.
- Also, need to draft some material very soon to go into the quarterly Boise Voice, distributed to all neighborhood residents.
Outage on MissNet at lower modulation rate, maybe counterproductive.
Address the hardware grant/loan request from AaronBaer.
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Notes
- Russell arrives late
- Reviewing nucab recoveries
- Maybe should reinstall the nucab at Pioneer Square, but we need to get the rest of builder goodness on there to do so. Keegan?
- Reviews the WG311T as a possibility to connect clients on Mississippi with freek boxes
- Russell recommends we loosen requirements on giving away the pcmcia cards we got for Mississippi, Mike concurs, will mention them at the Boise meeting next monday.
- Outline ideas for the talk on monday:
- Describe network
- Needs:
- Roofs
- Bandwidth
- Community involvement
- Ideas for novel or cool usages
- we need a pdu to power cycle modems and stuff
- That we have devices to share, 20 pcmcia cards, 10 pci cards which could be fitted in free geek boxes.
- Russell corresponds with Boise Voice people and their deadline is October 15th and they are flexible on space. Russell volunteers to draft something.
- Sara mentions an extruded aluminum case that her workplace is going to recycle, does anyone want it?
- Russell mentions the FCC/Saltzman joint press-conference conference tomorrow at Saltzman's office at 12:30 pm, he plans to go. Mentions his interest in getting involved in the muni-fiber project.
- Russell says he'll work on getting Sara access to donk.
Sara mentions a technical writing class, needs a subject, thinking about installing OpenWrt or something.
- Mike resets the modulation rate on mississippi dsl, Russell needs to reset the modem on the way home.
- Discussion of hardware grant/loan terms, need to draft something from earlier discussion.
- Need a box of letterhead or something, Russell will ping the guy who printed PLUG cards.
- Need to fix contact page and board mailing for Mike.