ok - i'm surfacing for air here and i'm wondering what folks are realistically interested in doing. specifically how we plan on attacking some of the problems that we have confronting us and what are people up for tackling? i see that spencer has been quite keen on making some forward movement here and i'd like to support this and hopefully other would like to as well. matthew has done some excellent work with the maps.tcwug.org setup and people have been adding nodes to this which is quite encouraging. given my schedule it's problematic for me to be out in the field testing APs and setting things up but i'd be more than happy to provide some focused energy on development, documentation, design and administravia, items which don't necessarily require considerable quantities of coordinated time. ;-) as i see it we have a number of tasks facing us if we're interested in either the hotspot or overlay mode of operation. i'll detail these below and i'd like to suggest that interested parties start bonding on the elements that interest them and perhaps give a bit of an update on their respective activities at the meeting. thoughts? i'm sure that i've missed elements but breaking these out into bite sized pieces seems like a good place to start. - evangelism - if we're going to make this work in any fashion we need to get the word out to folks. perhaps we want to brainstorm ideas for getting more people involved. more people means more APs and more opportunities for creating links - common authentication infrastructure - karl has offered a server to handle some of the elements associated with creating a common authentication infrastructure. i suggest interested parties start hammering out designs for this element - turnkey solutions - there's been a bit of chatter on #tcwug regarding cheap APs. pehaps we should write some documentation regarding the sane setup and configuration of some of these platforms to assist newbies. additionally, we might want to come up with some reference configurations which address the concerns of abuse. - administrative elements - bob mentioned that much of the work that was done investigating the tclug non-profit status would be applicable to tcwug. business minded folks might be able to provide some real insights here and steer us in a good direction. in looking at the efforts of other wireless groups around the country there look to be some interesting twists on the options available to folks. - some of this work would likely entail managing fundraising efforts to facilitate the growth of the network if that's what people are intersted in ... - site surveys and installation - it might be good to get a team together to investigate the options for linking different nodes together and/or coming up with hub sites which several users can reach if they can't reach each other. i'm thinking of folks scouting out tall buildings here ... these are some of the items that i think we might benefit ourselves in dividing up and tackling as people have resources, time and inclination. thoughts? -- steve ulrich sulrich at botwerks.org PGP: 8D0B 0EE9 E700 A6CF ABA7 AE5F 4FD4 07C9 133B FAFC