Big thanks! .... to all who braved the 'Night of no Tube service' and attended Mondays CONSUME #5 Meeting.. We had a well rounded discussion and update of the project progress to date and even managed to cover each Item in the Agenda .. in the assigned order , well that's a first for me anyway.. Here's the url for those of you who couldn't make it but would like to read the agenda and notes we started with. http://consume.spc.org/meeting5.html . Talk veered all over the place via the IP and routing deepwater and funding issue to some practical evidence of approach to node development and group practice. Thanks to Paul for making a special trip down from Luton to talk about initiatives there to set up a wireless club. the L&D Community Network http://www.swimsite.dabsol.co.uk Conclusions are sometimes hard to draw from such meetings but for me it is clear we need to build up support for those now ready to go ahead and install equipment in terms of desktop and rooftop, particularly antenna tech. The node database will get its long overdue refurbishment in the next week (please guys) at which point will be clear to assign routing schedules to registered nodes and extend the map making component of the tool. I was so busy talking I did not take miniutes though several present certainly took notes so please publish them ASAP. In talking to one of those present I discovered there had been a spot more press that I had missed, so please have a peek at this in pdf format sorry.. hey LinuxUser! http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/articles/issue6/lu6-Linux_at_Work-Radio_Gaga.pdf Would those who proposed meeting locations please firm up conditions for use and when time comes to book up a venue for the next meeting we will be ready. Having said that It would make good sense to hold a couple of practical sessions before then for those getting their hands on equipment and climbing their roof and to experiment more directly with a range of equipment and operating systems... its up to you to get it together.. just let others know of your plans best James -- James Stevens 07973318881 <-------------------> 02086928019 http://bak.spc.org <-------------------> Founded 1996 Grounded 1999 http://diy.spc.org <-------------------> Founded 2000 http://rad.spc.org <-------------------> Founded 1998 http://consume.net "trip the loop, make your switch, consume the net"