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Goal
To promote MelbWireless to the public.Members
DrewUlricksenTysonClugg
Dwayne Jones-Evans DavidSaab Clae
Mailing List
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- What do we want to say?
- How do we want to say it?
- Who do we want to say it?
- Where do we want to say it?
- Why do we want to say it?
Visibility
- Our main presence seems to be via the web, through our website:
- Melbwireless
- Hard to promote on the net without spamming
- Posting on msg boards when it's relevant to the discussion avoids being spam
- Submitting news to various sites, when we have something newsworthy
- Submitting to search engines
- Google bombing (is a good way to get removed from google altogether)
- Linking Policy
- Flyers
- Need a design / series of motif's
- Need ideas for places to put them
- Swap meets? Contact wireless card sellers (at the meets) and see if they could promote melb wireless? Maybe with a banner or something eye catching?
- Universities? They often have wireless networks for students, so the users are already a bit 'wet'? (was mentioned on the mailing list recently)
- check out MelbWirelessLogo
- Posters
- Need a design / series of motif's
- Need specific places to put them
- can we paste on construction sites? everyone seems to do it, cant be *that* illegal
- Actually, it is borderline illegal. Canvassing and hawking are not good propaganda for the group.
- Good point, but can we get *permission* to paste some somewhere?
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contact them and see if ABC got permission to do that from them? And if so, can we do the same?- check out MelbWirelessLogo
- some logo design guidelines
- Stickers
- Need ideas for places to put them
- Sticker paper for inkjets, pre-cut into circles
- 20 stickers per sheet x 10 sheets = 200 stickers for $23.80 = ~11.9 cents per sticker. OR in bulk, 3 packages are $62.85 = 600 stickers @ 10.4 cents per sticker
- "Clear Adhesive Labels, A4"
- Design: MelbWirelessLogo
- T-shirts
- anyone know a cheap source for plain white shirts? - Dimmeys
- anyone know a cheap source for silk screeners?
- or the cheap way, iron on
- Design: MelbWirelessLogo
- Business Cards
- ??
Motifs
Tin Cans Tin Cans (3816 bytes)
Gaining kudos
How can we gain kudos?- Technical community Recognition
- Local community Recognition
- not being arrested or fined.
- Do something for the community. Provide wireless for poor organisations / do training etc.
- Hold "Field Days" for testing links and people's equipment.
Suggestions
Threw together a sample 3-fold brochure type thing today just to see what we could put on there;Check it out.Star/Open Office users can have a
modifiable versionOriginally, I was thinking of floating the idea of a regional organiser to be a nice, easy point of contact for new users, make the association approachable on a personal level. I disregarded this -- why should one user be in a position like this when there multiple times the wealth of knowledge of a group. However, after closer scrutiny I noticed a reason that we may appear as a faceless organisation. Of the Regional Groups, only 2 have w.o.a mailing lists and there are 6 that have no mailing list at all. I believe if we become more contactable it will result in more users, and ultimately a better network. --gummAY 2004-28-06
Nice 3-fold brochure, except the URL is wrong -
www.melbournewireless.org.au is better because people recognise www.whatever... as a web address, you don't need to include the http:// to let people know what you are talking about.--TysonClugg 2004-28-06
As far as local communities go, if we get nodes working we should probably publicise it in the local free weeklies. What do you think?
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