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MELBOURNE WIRELESS INC. COMMITTEE MEETING
PLEASE ADDRESS ALL COMMENTS AND QUERIES TO THE COMMITTEE [1].
ATTENDANCE AT COMMITTEE MEETINGS IS BY INVITATION FROM THE COMMITTEE
ONLY. MEMBERS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND ANY GENERAL
MEETING [2].
DATE:
Start:6:30PM
Finish:9:00PM
Location:Solomon Room
Ian Wark Laboratory [3]
Bayview Avenue
Clayton VIC 3168
ATTENDEES
President:Tyson Clugg [4] (TC)
Vice President:Darren Dreis [5] (DD)
Secretary: Vaskos Tsiatis [6] (VT)
Treasurer:James Healy [7] (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Details of membership will not be published due to privacy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 (Vaskos
Tsiatis [8]) 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
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
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.
Client node & routing node...
Aim to use the most common equipment around today. Enterasys, WL200,
Dlink APs. Etc
Get hardware and software guys together to work these issues out.
So in 3 weeks, the committee wants to decide on basically what we
want from these distribution, ie security, routing, access control,
etc.
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 [9] page..
Links:
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[1] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?COMMITTEE
[2] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?MELBWIRELESSMEETINGS
[3]
http://www.csiro.au/index.asp?type=map&id=ClaytonVIC-IanWarkLab
[4] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?TysonClugg
[5] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?DarrenDreis
[6] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?VaskosTsiatis
[7] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?JamesHealy
[8] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?VaskosTsiatis
[9] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?Committee
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