That is really sad. When I heard about this on the news, I never thought it would be someone I had met, and who was such a great supporter of the community.
I understand that his wife is or was in the hospital as well, if there is anything ptp can do to help her or their family, I would love to know. -- Michael F. Weinberg On Dec 10, 2009, at 3:58 PM, Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote: > > (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 > Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "ptp-ops" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/ptp-ops?hl=en -- 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]
