Hi, I’m Mike in Boise, Idaho. My day job is Building Information Modeling. Off-work, I’m a volunteer firefighter, a ham, an outdoorsman, and a relentless tinkerer, amongst many other things. Let me tell you, the tinkerer in me is defintely signing on to the MOAN project!
I’m here because I have an interest in diversifying the communication capabilities of our small rural mountain community just outside of the city of Boise, and I have long-believed that mesh networking is the way to do it.
I found goTenna because of my interest in ATAK, but alas, I don’t have a .gov or .mil account, so I’m dead in the water there for now. Hopefully, goTenna sees fit to open the consumer plugin for ATAK-CIV/GoTenna Mesh back up, and see it for the gateway drug to the Pro and ProX that it is, for those po-broke little fire departments like ours. 
Oh yeah, I’m also a big advocate of decentralization, which dovetails in quite nicely.