May Monthly Meeting Minutes

Available at <http://wiki.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MeetingMay2004>.

A big thanks to Sam Churchill for keeping minutes.

   Darrin



= Personal Telco Monthly Meeting for May 26th 2004 =
== When and Where ==
Urban Grind Coffee
2214 NE Oregon St.
(take 22nd Ave. 2 blocks North of Sandy Blvd.)

Wednesday, May 26th, 6pm-9pm

= Agenda =
  * 6:00PM - Introduction to Personal Telco for newcomers.
  * 6:30PM - New node announcements
  * 6:45PM - Harold Vines from the Intel Mobile Tech Group
  * 7:30PM - Business followed directly by informal meet and greet.

== Speaker ==
Harold Vines holds a BSEE and MSCs from Stanford University and an MBA 
from UC Berkeley. At night he dreams of a large project manager bear 
coming around and scratching big red tree programmers. Currently he is 
the Manager of Mobile Technology Evangelism at Intel, where he has 
worked for 13 years.

7:30p
Harold will present the features, benfits and new usages of the Intel 
2005 Mobile Internet Concept Platform.

As always, our presenter is thanked for allowing my abuse of his bio.
== Agenda Items ==

  * Fund Raisers
  * World Wide War Drive Info
  * Workshops/Playdays
    - Distros and Methods to set up a Node( TomHiggins )
  * Project Tracking ( 
http://wiki.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/ProposedProjects )
  * Park To Park Field Day
  * Membership
  * Stats..ie How are the PTP Nodes doing (TomHiggins)

== Meeting Notes ==
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6:30pm:
DarinEden welcomes everyone, introduces the mission of PersonalTelco 
and officers in organization.

6:40pm:
NigelBallard takes mike for new member introductions. Update on PREN: 
currently running tests, has 2 pre wimax base stations one on Shriner 
Hospital and other on the downtown Ondine building by Portland State 
University. Updates will be on www.joejava.com Connection will be 
through 100 Meg fiber connection on Shriner and one on 10Meg on the 
Ondine. Is talking with city of Portland to potentially feed 6 rooftops 
with city. Mentioned that Willamette Week is doing a writeup. Asked for 
interesting anedotes.  Second item, Intel's webcam at the UrbanGrind 
Coffee Shop (where this meeting is being held). Gave credit to Intel 
and the people from the Intel Social Research group.

Introductions: Husband and wife are working on non-profit group for 
delivering low cost WiFi for low income communities. Asked for 
technical help. Others; PSU CS student, works on IP law. The president 
of OakTree introduced himself. OakTree hosts the most popular hotspot 
in Portland, on the South Park blocks. Others, amateur radio operator, 
and several others.

6:50pm:
DarinEden:
Brought out membership forms. Introduces Tom Fitzgerald. Tom is working 
at Intel and introduced Harold Vines with cool new toys. Harold now 
lives in the (downtown) Pearl district and uses the WorldCup PTP node 
daily. As mobility platform honcho, he's been 13 years at Intel and 
lately new architecture and usage models. Recap; Intel's Centrino 
launched year ago, since the initial launch growth exceeded all 
analysists expectations. Now working on next year's platform models-  
mobile entertainment is one push. Harold demoed the large mobile 
desktop that looks like a large laptop but with a different keyboard 
layout and, of course, may other differences. The machines have been 
demoed elsewhere (we'll make a link). The idea is home entertainment.

Three concept models were shown that they show to potential OEMs that 
can take the concept and build on it:

(1) The Florence looks like a portable, 17" flatscreen. You can watch 
tv, do PVR, or surf with 9 pound unit. Very portable with handle on top 
and battery powered. HDTV capable. Has fast user switching via 
biometric. Going for 3 hour battery life. Built-in camera, array mike, 
four audio simultaneous input streams for background noise reduction 
and point source locatization, handy for videoconferencing. Uses Xpress 
card (rather than PC card).

(2) Demoed the small battery owerated keyboard and mouse/bluetooth 
handset radio. The handset links to flatscreen via bluetooth and does 
VoIP.

(3) The 15" portable digital office. Similar to larger machine but with 
a focus on business. Working in cubes, campus, going to local or metro 
area. Road warriors on the road has a 12" model. The 15" portable has 
same internal components with biometric, print, password and or 
token/rfid. Integrated camera with array mikes. Artifacts can be 
corrected and background reduced - that is key to voice recognition 
said Vines. Hal-like lip reading have been studied to improved the 
accuracy of voice recognition. Also has GPRS cellular. Simplified 
network selection will continously monitor wireless options and connect 
with the network with your preferences.

(4) The 12" road Warror is a tablet with a difference. Lid can separate 
for use as slate. Same guts, arraymike, cam, etc. Much more portable.

A new usage model, closed lid computing, would display basic calendar 
and messaging info directly. Always on and connected. Also VoIP would 
be utilized with Bluetooth headset (or other). With the universal 
inbox, everything goes to one in box. It will find you.

Feedback from audience: Linux support was mentioned by many people, and 
the major complaint. Without Linux support, some said, the flexibility 
and utility would be limited. Also mentioned with a thin server model 
sharing media.

Lid display would initially turn off display and cache info in local 
memory that the user may want. HD spins up if required. Second phase 
would be embedded Xscale in lid with embedded OS and wireless and local 
HD.

Discussion on one bill roaming. Why not a free cloud as a viable 
business research pursuit?


8:00: Meeting break. Harold Vines available for Q&A.

8:15: Bob Peterson announcements; have a new node (didn't catch it), 
membership announcements and requirements were discussed. Bob 
philosophized that pay hotspots were good- they get the word out.

8:20: Mike Weintrab talked about fund raising. The next fund raising is 
a raffle in September, tickets will cost $1 each and start in July. 
Looking for goods and services, Urban Grind Coffee Shop gave $10 in 
coffee, others include theatre tickets, etc. Contact Bob if you have 
ideas.

8:30: Bernard World Wide Wardrive: It's the 4th year, starts on June 12 
through 19th to get as many nodes as possible. The idea: increases 
awareness of security. A website will exist to pubize the event and 
posted here on the PTP site.

8:40: Tom Higgins: Now the education coordinator. Project tracking. 
Since PTP is 501c3, we are keeping a wiki page where people can 
describe their project. Post your project and get together. Everyone 
can follow it. If you can place a monitory value on your project, post 
it. Then perhaps funding for grants, etc, could be found.

Playday; Breakout sessions include the public IP, Less Networks, other 
free hotspot hardware and software. Regularly schedule. Also a general 
discussion and meeting space.


Stats time...... With just 18 nodes worth of data the numbers are 
pretty amazing...Across those 18 nodes the PTP is averaging about 
172.42 authentications per day.

Top ten nodes are:
||'''Rank'''||'''Node Name''' || '''Avg Auths Per Day'''||
||10.|| alder street node ||9.62||
||9. || powells book ||9.84||
||8. || ugly mug ||10.5 ||
||7. || south park ||12.5 ||
||6. || urban grind ||15.4||
||5. || eco trust ||15.46||
||4. || anna bannas ||18||
||3. || backspace ||20.88||
||2. ||world cup nw ||22.85||
||1. || pioneer square|| 24.3 ||

Next month will be an open discussion forum.

8:40: DarinEden ajourns the June meeting.

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