Bristol Wireless Wiki - Monthly Meeting Tues 4 th April 2006

PRESENT

Rich Woodsy Lloyd Sam Andy Mike Pete F Matt L Ben G Julien

APOLOGIES

Sean Matt T Jim

MATTERS ARISING

Minutes from the last meeting : Approved.
ECC Report : Sam thinks it's possible that we could do an extra 12 hours a week with the current budget. Jim will look into this. Ben G thinks we need to advertise for staff. Sam is trying to get a firm answer on what we're being charged by the ECC.
Vivaldi/BMEX Connection Update : Holroyd House and Armada are nearly cabled, but antennas need tuning. The third site is still under discussion. University install is also nearing completion. It will be two weeks before the wired LAN is connected, but the wireless is well underway. We also need to discuss terms of connection with them.
St Werburghs Community Report : We didn't get the �10000 we went for, as we didn't get enough people through the door. As the IT suite is no longer being upgraded, we can use our new beefy server to provide LTSP to the old machines for a performance upgrade. We will need a switch with a gigabit uplink to achieve this.
Helpdesk : We need to find out costs associated with moving the Telewest line to St Werburghs. Lloyd will research this with Rich and Bails. We are still planning to launch a migration service. We need to decide on an application list that we will provide and support. There will be two devices at client sites; one running as a router/proxy, and one as an LTSP server. Both will be administered by our experienced system administrators. Based on the market research we got for this, we have some potential customers for ADSL. Sam suggested we sell these people ADSL lines, and nobody had any objections.
AGM : This has been booked for 22nd April 2006 at St Werburgh's. Sean will do a workshop about where we want to go in the future, and how to get there. We are planning to get it over in 2-3 hours. Lloyd will do a technical workshop afterwards for those who are interested.
Books Audit : Julien has provided an overview of our accounts, and is ready for the books to be audited. Julien will arrange for the books to be audited. We would like Julien to provide a project-related breakdown of our finances so we can better judge the current situation.

BANNERMAN ROAD

There has been no progress connecting people, partly as we have no POP near Vining Walk. A signal test from Kingsdown is the next step to getting a resolve. Moving the omni-directional antenna on Twinnell House could also solve this issue. Delayed until next month, when Sean is available.

C3 PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT EXERCISE

We have been given some documentation to look over to evaluate our structure. This will tell us where we are good, and where we are bad. We will try to arrange an hour to discuss this at the AGM.

LOTTERY BID / DIGITAL CITIES

There is an Open Source draft bid on the Internet. We would like to change the part that says Streetnet is the biggest network, as we cover a larger area.

ANNUAL REPORT

Sean and Rich are going to work on an AGM CD containing PDF documents amongst other things.

AOB

International Wireless : Rich has been approached by Neil, who is an entrepreneur. He is trying to roll out wireless networks in other parts of the world, and is suggesting he may have money to pay for some of our services.