> From: Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org> > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 06:19:30PM -0600, Neal wrote: >>>>> #4: Promote the use of ham radio, and ham clubs. >>>> >>>> Immaterial. >>> Immaterial for you, but one of my long-term goals. >> >> Your personal long term goals and those of a community wireless network in >> the Twin Cities are not the same. Amateur Radio already have packet networks >> on their spectrum. Let them use theirs. We'll develop our own. > > So? Ben titled his email, "MY goals". One of *my* goals in this > project is to wear a pink tutu on top of Moos tower[1], and that would > be valid in my list of goals, whether or not anyone else shared that > goal. Anyone's individual goals are secondary to the primary goal of building a wireless community network. > > If we're going to have some "List of Goals" or something else > marketroidish, Without project planning and what is to be achieved by the project would doom the entire effort. "Marketdroidish" makes it sound as if Project Engineering Is Not A Good Thing(tm). > then of course the elements of that list should be > amenable to everyone. But this was a mail to the list enumerating one > individual's goals. Some of which will divert resources from or dilute what I believe to be the prime directive of this entire exercise: #/bin/sh #/usr/local/reiterate -v <building a wireless network>.