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+! Melbourne Wireless Inc. Committee Meeting 

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+'''Please address all comments and queries to [Committee the committee].''' 

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+'''Attendance at committee meetings is by invitation from the committee only.  Members and the general public are welcome to attend any [MelbWirelessMeetings general meeting].''' 

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+'''Date:''' 

+Start:6:30PM 

+Finish:9:00PM 

+Location:Solomon Room%%%(http://www.csiro.au/index.asp?type=map&id=ClaytonVIC-IanWarkLab Ian Wark Laboratory)%%%Bayview Avenue%%%Clayton VIC 3168 

+ 

+!!! Attendees 

+President:[TysonClugg Tyson Clugg] (TC) 

+Vice President:[DarrenDreis Darren Dreis] (DD) 

+Secretary: [VaskosTsiatis Vaskos Tsiatis] (VT) 

+Treasurer:[JamesHealy James Healy] (JH) - via telephone 

+Guest Speakers:(none) 

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+!! 1. Opening Remarks (TC) 

+* Had a non eventful month on the committee – seen similar non actio with the rest of group. Outer eastern and foothills had 1st meeting. Most members are sitting stagnant at the moment. 

+* Admin tasks were carried out – ie. setting up internet banking 

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+!! 2. Correspondance (VT) 

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+!! 3. Membership (VT) 

+* 2 memberships approved 

+Details of membership will not be published due to privacy requirements, and will instead be minuted by the Secretary ([VaskosTsiatis Vaskos Tsiatis]) and kept separate from the public minutes. 

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+!! 4. Financial Report (JH) 

+* Net banking is setup 

+* Signatures have changed to TC, DD, JH – any 2 to sign 

+* Read only access to net banking (non value access) – DD, TC and JH have access. 

+* No-one has “pay” access. 

+* JH to check regularly and inform VT of any memberships that have been paid so that VT can process them. 

+ 

+!!! 4.1 Budget 

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+!!! 4.2 House bill status 

+* Current balance is approximately $1550. 

+* 1 outstanding cheque (TC) 

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+!! 5. Business 

+ 

+! 5.1 Banner logo 

+* Committee agreed to version 3 of the logo (Khaki) 

+* DD to organise with Nick about getting it printed, thirts, etc 

+* Nick to make A4 template letterhead for us. 

+* DD to print up 50 pages. 

+ 

+! 5.2 Little things to get out of the way 

+* Link audio/video to website 

+* LMR400 – decided not worth the hassle. It is a better option to setup some sort of agreement with Paul at X net to offer some sort of discount to our members. 

+* Deferred agreement on this – will look for member to see if they are interested in terminating the cable. Melbourne wireless is happy to invest up to $500 worth of cable and connectors. Will find member via word of mouth . VT to organise. Happy for person terminating to make $5 

+ 

+! 5.3 Membership Formalisation 

+* Move to online membership form. 

+* Intro letter to be sent at the same time as card 

+* User applies, goes to database, they put money into database, tick off members who have paid/pending approval, cards sent out. 

+* JH to start coding membership. A month deadline. TC to assist when required. 

+ 

+! 5.4 New website 

+* General image of website needs to be spruced up – new design, not code oriented. 

+* Needs to be organised better. 5 or 6 main headers. 

+* Call out to the list if there are any web designers, NOT coders….. need a designer… even if it is done by a commercial entity. 

+ 

+! 5.5 Bank account details 

+''':Melbourne Wireless Inc.%%%Westpac: Glen Waverley Shopping Centre%%%BSB: 033385%%%ACCT: 242991''' 

+Members to put surname in description field AND email a copy of the transaction to treasurer. 

+ 

+! 5.6 Server 

+* Working, hard drives are ok,  512mb ram, currently at Darren’s office on a working network 

+* There is a boot up issue to be resolved by DD 

+* Box configuration to be done by Troy – DD to pass box onto Troy. 

+* Must formalise hosting with an entity with Melbourne wireless, not an individual. 

+'''Draft letter to ISPS (DD):''' 4RU rack space%%%Require access for our sysadmins 

+VT to talk to Brett at alphalink 

+ 

+! 5.7 Planning day followup 

+* Network growth and communication. 

+* Both points not achieved to date. 

+* Get experts together 

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+Over the next 3 weeks, the committee will organise what we want for a distribution or at least a well documented list of what needs to be done. 

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+Client node & routing node... 

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+Aim to use the most common equipment around today. Enterasys, WL200, Dlink APs. Etc 

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+Get hardware and software guys together to work these issues out. 

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+So in 3 weeks, the committee wants to decide on basically what we want from these distribution, ie security, routing, access control, etc. 

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+! 5.8 Meeting 

+Newbies introduction 5 mins at the start. Simple presentation of MW and how to connect a node. 

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+!! 6. Task List 

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+Back to the [Committee] page..