August Board Meeting Agenda

  • New Projects Update
    • Wrote letter of support for “Media and Urban Life in North America: Montreal, New York City, Mexico City” project
    • WiFi Dog Update
  • Policy Update
  • Fundraising/Development:
    • Met with Brooklyn Polytechnic WiCat? project about potential partnership
  • Administrative

June 8 Board Meeting Minutes

  • Website

    • Discussed Transition to Wiki, Updated important Web pages
  • Meetings in Washington, DC
    • Dana will meet with Congressional officials on June 9
  • FCC Consumer Advisory Committee
  • Laura and Dana will represent NYCwireless at first meeting of committee on June 10
  • WifiDog
    • Rob/Jacob working on this project
  • CuWIN mesh
    • Dana will test mesh nodes
  • Discussion of New Board Member
  • Next Meeting Speaker and Announcement
    • Joe will recruit speaker and send out announcement
  • Mailing list
    • Discussed administration of mailing list

May 11 Board Meeting Minutes

  • Follow-up from last meeting

    • Officers elected (Dana, President; Ben, Treasurer; Laura, Secretary)
    • Adopted pr/messaging statements created at 3/16 session with pro-bono pr firm
    • NYCwireless charter and budget needed for review (Ben)
  • Update on Board
    • Anthony’s resigns from Board of Directors and becomes member of Advisory Board
    • Need to appoint new board member and create Advisory Board
  • Update on City Council Hearing
    • Rennaissance Integrated Solutions (Laura)
    • Need to follow up with EDC re: BID funding initiative (Dana)
  • Updates on New Projects
    • Deployment Projects (Dana)
    • Community Access Project (Dustin) 5/18 installation; 5/25 ribbon-cutting
  • New Ideas
    • Non-profit wireless outreach program (Rob) put together a package that we can use to build partnerships with other non-profits to sponsor public hotspots