[MLB-WIRELESS] Internet Access

[Brenton D.]

How many people turn up to the meets?


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <dawid at bigpond.net.au>
To: "Brenton D." <ivile01 at yahoo.com.au>; "Darren Dreis" 
<darrend at ndpgroup.com.au>; <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 6:38 PM
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Internet Access


> OK OK OK Lucent is a great example, what I am saying is it should be a 
> monthly excercise.
>
> Raffle is a great idea, keep the ideas coming everyone. But i suggest that 
> we focus on the 21st century way of creating cash rather than your local 
> pub. How about creating a monthly Melbourne Wireless Newsletter, with 
> updates on what happened at the monthly meet, about what our wise 
> committee has decided, what issues exist, what happened over the last 
> month, what is planned over the nxt month (ie next guest speaker :) ). How 
> many people do we have in our MW database? 300? With a distribution list 
> of 300 happy readers who are all interested wireless, radios and last mile 
> IP solutions, i will bet that we can get radio shack or Dick Smiths to 
> advertise each month on the newsletter. Charge $200 bucks each month for 
> direct marketing (which is damn cheap, try putting an add in the paper), 
> if we get 3 companies thats $600 a month and thats $7200 a year and we get 
> an informative newsletter so that no one is in the dark. I think its time 
> that MW start to use its database if it wants !
> to survive and create some exciting projects in the future.
>
> Lets grasp the power of the internet and use it to our advantage. There 
> are millions of ideas just like this one. I never again want to hear 
> within this wonderful community that we cant do something because we dont 
> have the resources. Its bollucks, simply the committe needs to take these 
> ideas and be pro-active and if not than admit that they cant handle it and 
> then invite more people to help run this organisation.
>
> Dav
> ps
> its stopped raining here :)~
>
> ---- "Brenton D." <ivile01 at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>> Just i thing about raising money, MW should have some more raffles, I 
>> could
>> supply a wave-guide at material cost price then at a meet you could sell
>> tickets to win it a $5 each or something?
>>
>> Dav, don't forget Lucent Technologies, i don't think you can get much 
>> better
>> than them.
>>
>>
>>
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>> http://www.melbourne.wireless.org.au/users/?ivile
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Darren Dreis" <darrend at ndpgroup.com.au>
>> To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 5:12 PM
>> Subject: RE: [MLB-WIRELESS] Internet Access
>>
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Dan Flett [mailto:conhoolio at hotmail.com]
>> > Sent: Tuesday, 28 June 2005 12:27 PM
>> > To: Darren Dreis; melbwireless at wireless.org.au
>> > Subject: RE: [MLB-WIRELESS] Internet Access
>> >
>> >>>I don't think that keeping the authorities satisfied is by any means
>> > going to be a walk in the park, but if >>we think about it in a 
>> > positive
>> > way, explore the posibilites, and start to formulate a plan, we may 
>> > well
>> > be >>able to come up with something that works.
>> >
>> > Yes technically anything is possible. I have no doubt we have the
>> > technical expertise within the group to come up with a solution that
>> > should be acceptable. My point really is that many people seem to think
>> > the 'non-commercial' clause means the rules don't apply to us at all.
>> >
>> >
>> >>>How much administration is required?  If we keep logs, verify and
>> > authenticate users, and only allow limited >>access to the Internet, I
>> > believe we can keep the administrative overhead down.
>> >
>> > I'm not one for writing proverbs... But there should be a confucius
>> > saying for volunteer/community groups that says: Those that have the
>> > expertise and are willing to give it for free, are usually those that
>> > don't have the time available to give it.
>> >
>> >>>How about people come up with some ideas about how to make this work,
>> > rather than thinking about how it's
>> >>>not going to work?
>> >
>> > Not saying it cant work.... Merely why?
>> > Right now the technical details are irrelevant, if and when we get to
>> > this point, those issues will need to be resolved to the satisfaction 
>> > of
>> > the AG's dept, ACA, and ASIO
>> >
>> > Personally I don't believe it's appropriate for MW right now.
>> >
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