http://blog.personaltelco.net News from our volunteers Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:51:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Willamette Week gave us some space in their "How to Live Cheap in Portland" piece this week. I think it does a good job on the "modelling good behavior" front and not being too much "these dudes will sprinkle the magic pixie dust on you (and give you ... http://blog.personaltelco.net/2008/08/13/personal-telco-gets-some-ink We keep seeing reports of "Metrofi is roughly 30% complete in covering Portland," but is that really the right number? Even though numerous reports say you should deploy at least 35 nodes per square mile, MetroFi took the low-end number of 25. While I'm not sure who came ... http://blog.personaltelco.net/2008/06/23/portland-metrofi-and-coverage This is slightly old news, but for those looking for video footage of the group, we have a channel on YouTube now with most of our videos from the past 8 years. Check us out. http://blog.personaltelco.net/2008/06/19/personal-telco-on-youtube Recently, the Oregonian interviewed me for an article about low and no-cost Internet options in Portland post MetroFi. I appreciate that Mike Rogoway and the Oregonian consider our voice relevant and important to this discussion. While I appreciate that in the aftermath of a large failure, such as MetroFi's Portland ... http://blog.personaltelco.net/2008/06/16/comment-on-the-616-oregonian-article   My post to general stripped out the attachment which contains all the information for this event. But Hasson Company is hosting a Computer Recycle Day tomorrow Saturday the 31st of May 2008. There are two locations for drop off Metro East and Metro West the event is from 10am to ... http://blog.personaltelco.net/2008/05/30/hasson-companys-reuse-and-recycle-day Between Saturday evening, when a thunderstorm flickered the power and rebooted our primary nameserver, and about 5pm Sunday afternoon when we got the secondary fixed, we sort of dropped off the internet. Name resolutions for personaltelco.net (.com and .org too, one presumes) stopped working. This had some dire ... http://blog.personaltelco.net/2008/05/25/nameserver-outage A week or so ago, the Personal Telco Project board of directors approved $500 in travel expenses for me to go to the International Summit for Community Wireless Networks 2008 in Washington DC. I've been asked to participate in a panel on Data Collection for Community Wireless Networks. ... http://blog.personaltelco.net/2008/05/18/russell-going-to-the-international-summit-for-community-wireless-networking I was in Bellingham over the weekend and gave a talk on the Personal Telco Project, its history and philosophy and future, and showed off some gear. There was a good turnout and I wasn't noticably boo'd off the stage, though someone did carp later about people using Windows ... http://blog.personaltelco.net/2008/05/01/linuxfest-northwest-talk Keith Lofstrom, long time member of Personal Telco got his node, NodeKLIC, up and running for the first time yesterday. For a long while he'd been a Comcast customer and their terms of service prevented him. So, when a viable alternative arrived, he dumped their hoarding asses in ... http://blog.personaltelco.net/2008/04/24/new-node-in-beaverton A generous donation arrived at the post office box yesterday or today. It is an AT&T Blackberry 8300 new-in-the-box, donated by someone who won it as a door prize or raffle. The donor would like to turn it into cash that will advance the agenda of the Personal ... http://blog.personaltelco.net/2008/03/21/donated-att-blackberry-8300-for-sale