(CC'ing a bunch of people who have either reported problems or helped or threatened to help work on this node in the past)
I regret to inform you that our benefactor at NodeCommunitecture, Brian Perry, apparently died yesterday of Carbon Monoxide poisoning. My information is that his wife was also injured in the incident. Some years ago, Brian (who owned the building) contacted us about installing the node, and funded about $500 of gear on the roof. Just recently we received another donation of $200 to help upgrade the node. Recently, the node has been having trouble. Just yesterday PTP purchased a new device to go on the roof and had a call into Brian's voice mail about arranging access to install it. When I visited today, I got the news. I understand this story made the local media yesterday: http://www.kgw.com/news/local/Husband-dies-wife-in-critical-from-carbon-monoxide-78963637.html This is terrible news. Brian was a great supporter of PTP and what we are trying to do, and a wonderful, generous human being. Our hearts go out to his wife and other loved ones. Regrettably, this is going to complicate getting the node repaired until things get sorted out. I power cycled the rooftop device repeatedly and never saw a peep out of it while I was there today. It is possible that the power-over-ethernet injector is faulty and I'll try replacing that tomorrow. If that doesn't fix it, we may have to get creative. This node has served as many as 420 unique client devices since late October. That is quite a community of people. It would be helpful if the community of node users can work together with us to keep this node alive, one way or another. Please contact me to help, and please let your neighbors know as well. We've lost Brian, but we don't have to lose the node. All it takes is the kind of generous spirit that Brian had. Thanks. -- Russell Senior, President [email protected] -- 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]
