As one that instigated a bit of chatter with my meraki comments. I would be will to host something at my office in GV and show real world 200 user environment with tools and administration. I can easily handle 10 or so and I have access to a board room if more than that. I agree there is a lot of open source and do it your self kind of stuff for a users group. I am not promoting meraki for the group but for what I do as a single consultant it is truly plug and play with some great tools and the equipment is robust for 24x7 outdoor installation and exceeds specs. As a user group there is ample opportunity to delve into other products, open source code, and tool development. Sounds like a good show and tell plus spirited discussion. S. Earl Jarosh N0HZ V.P. of Information Technology Cell: 612.868.1313 Off: 763.545.3275 Fax: 763.546.0027 Money Centers of America, Inc. - I.T. Dept 5955 Golden Valley Rd., Suite 206 Golden Valley, MN 55422 6128681313 at cingularme.com earl at moneycenters.com www.moneycenters.com -----Original Message----- From: tcwug-list-bounces at tcwug.org [mailto:tcwug-list-bounces at tcwug.org] On Behalf Of steve ulrich Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 11:36 AM To: tcwug-list at tcwug.org Subject: [tcwug-list] prospective in-person meeting dates in the interests of moving something forward on the notion of letting folks get together, i'd be willing to attend to the associated logistics for an in-person meeting in july. some place centrally located within the cities would likely be useful. the dunn bros frequented previously was useful but parking was a royal hass. personally, i was thinking of something in the week of 7/6 or the week of 7/20. useful topics that seem to have come up in terms of coverage include: - setting up a public hotspot - mesh networking in your hood - novel antenna designs - member location mapping thoughts? -- steve ulrich (sulrich at botwerks.*) _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tcwug-list at tcwug.org http://mailman.tcwug.org/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list