[Cu-wireless] organize!

[Ralph Johnson]

I agree that more organization is needed.

	I propose that we develop a schedule of _focused_ topic oriented
	meetings. We should have more than one meeting each week with the
	expectation that not everyone will come to all the meetings but people
	will come to the meetings that interest them.

Or that they can come to.  Early Sunday afternoon is a bad time for me.

I'm interested in several topics, but I have been thinking most about
this.

	  6) Outreach group - Work on the website. Prepare snail mailings
	     soliciting interest/funds in/for the projects. prepare FAQs on
	     safety and other such issues for concerned members of the general
	     public. Work on acquiring grants or donations of equipment. 

You keep mentioning money.  It will be hard to get money from other
organizations unless there is an organization for them to give it to.
Perhaps "CU Wireless" doesn't have to be an official corporation, but
it at least needs to have some sort of charter with recongized leaders.
Organizations that give money want to know who they are giving it to.

Sometimes you can piggy back off another group.  For example, perhaps
people would donate money to the media center.  I bet we could get a
grant to give wireless at the high schools and middle schools.  But
if you want people to give money to us, not to some other organization
that is working with us, we'll need an organization.

I will add a topic.

For this project to succeed in the long run, the ISPs will need to think
of us as good guys, not competitors.  We need to figure out a way for
people using the CU wireless system to buy a small channel to the
internet.  This will not only get them on our side, but it will eliminate
the need for the group to raise funds for large shared pipes to the
internet.

-Ralph