[MLB-WIRELESS] Internet Access

[dawid at bigpond.net.au]

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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> ----- 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
> 
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> >
> >
> > -----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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