To be honest, I think node maintenance is a huge part of PTP, and should be. Granted, getting funding for PTP node upkeep would be nice, but just hoping the upkeep will be handled by someone else strikes me as a bit wishful.
I think the AlixCab project is a wonderful step to having better management, monitoring, and therefore service. It's little architecture things like that that get me hot. Of course, it appears that Russell has a lot of that down, so all I can do is give money. I am, unfortunately, tied down with two non-profit commitments and a job already. Cheers cc On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Michael<[email protected]> wrote: > > > Brian Beattie wrote: >> for me the biggest issues is the focus on operating hotspots. I was >> pushing hard to focus on building infrastructure and off loading the >> operations on the hotspot owners. I know I would be more interested if >> PTP focused more on new projects and less on operational(maintanence) >> projects. So I would agree with Rick I'd like to see PTP take on some >> novel projects. > > > Building implies maintenance (analogy of seduction vs. marriage comes to mind) > the hot spot hosts are bar/cafe/restaurant/business owners, not geeks. They > can't be expected to maintain what they don't understand. > > My "participation" has been mostly the occasional cash contribution. > > Some mechanism needs to be figured out to get people involved with node care > and feeding. That is a requirement for PTP to grow, or even continue its > existence. > > > -- > Michael Rasmussen > http://www.jamhome.us/ > Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity > > > > > -- Chris Chen <[email protected]> "The fact that yours is better than anyone else's is not a guarantee that it's any good." -- Seen on a wall --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
