I agree Rich, and nice to see you are in the group here.
Perhaps the Powerpoint presentation slides having to do with WISPA can
simply have WISPA logo in brilliant color in each frame, and the
agreement as to what is presented clearly has slides with appropriate
source ID's - like a Logo, and identifies the group. For example:
WISPA Section
WISPA Organized Hurricane Relief
WISPA _ Who Are They?
Non-profit organization committed to rural wirelesss communications
(tweak)
WISPA Members that participated
Mac et.al.
WISPA Communications For Refugees
Goal: is to quickly create communications infrastructure using TCP/IP
technologies to provide telephone and data communications among
Refugees, Releif providers, family and others.
Number of groups serviced
Other services
WISPA collected funds
Summary of contributions from WISPA and others through WISPA..
WISPA Estimated Man Hours Expended
WISPA recommended future actions for Emergency Actions
Integration with Ham operators for Ham to TCP/IP infrastructure
Importance of flexible, failure tolerant systems
Importance of unlicensed spectrum in terms of speed of deployment
WISPA commitment to future Emergency Relief
Internal plans -
Sorry this is so hastily written, but I'm off to work again.. :-)
If Matt or Marlon can go, great. If Mike agrees with the verbatim
slides, great. nice of him then.
rcomroe wrote:
Done a zillion remote meetings using streaming video/audio. Not appropriate
for an FCC presentation.
Come on, guys. The real issue is "what" is said, not "who" is saying it.
What you need to do is to have WISPA leadership collaborate with P-15
leadership to come to mutual agreement on "what" is presented. That will
suit everyone's needs. But beware: Do not settle for simply "providing
material" as a substitute. Submitting material to another group to use or
not use as they see fit will not represent your interests, guaranteed.
What's called for is a collaboration and sign-off on what is presented. It
doesn't have to be face-to-face ... people remotely email revisions back &
forth on an every day, hour, or even minute basis in collaborative
construction. This can work, only if there's someone in your group willing
to collaborate to make it happen (and both parties are willing to see that
it's accomplished). The issue of "who" does the presentation may be set in
stone, but if both parties are willing to agree that "what" is presented
should be agreeable to both, it can happen.
Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Larson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'WISPA General List'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 12:40 PM
Subject: RE: [WISPA] Need Inputs From Hurricane Relief WISP Teams
ForFCCPresentation on Thursday
Video stream Mac from the field into the FCC meeting........Brad
-----Original Message-----
From: George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 1:27 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Need Inputs From Hurricane Relief WISP Teams
ForFCCPresentation on Thursday
John Scrivner wrote:
I know Matt has been away from home a bunch lately but I think we should
send Matt Larsen to this FCC event if he will go. We can take the $500
from Charles as part of the expense and have WISPA cover the rest. I
think we need a front line guy to speak at this event. I think we should
ask Michael to introduce Matt and yield a bit of his time if the FCC
will not grant Matt his own time. This shows unity between industry
groups and gives Part-15 and WISPA both an opportunity to show our
efforts in helping those in need. Thoughts?
Scriv
I agree that Matt would do well if he could find someone to talk to.
And he would be in the top of the list of people I would want to go to
Washington and represent us.
However, Marlon, if he has the time, has experience of "roaming the
halls of the FCC" looking for someone to talk to.
Maybe Marlon would be a better choice in this instance?
WISPA hasn't been formally invited to talk to the FCC people, so the
person that goes will need to cold call, which might be difficult to do.
I think this is the perfect time to talk to Washington, and make sure or
reinforce that it was WISPA quick actions that got phone, broadband,
and computers into the hands of the displaced. Mac Dearman and WISPA
were "First Responders"
We need to make sure that we get this credit right away. As time passes
on, a lot will be forgotten and it will be much harder to get the type
of exposure we now deserve.
It would also be good to sometime in the future have a special trip to
Washington for the member wisps of wispa who were effected and those who
volunteered the time and effort to be quick responders.
Guys like Mac need to be recognized for their quick actions, especially
in light of how slow it took the government to respond.
Just my thoughts.
George
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