[suws-members] Meeting tomorrow 18:00 Zepler CLS room

[David R Newman]

Hi All,

It looks like the CLS room in Zepler has now been redecorated, so we 
will be back in Zepler tomorrow (i.e the same place and time as usual).

As it is outside term time and there are less of us around, I think we 
can be a bit more free form, so this is neither a meeting nor a doing as 
such and I haven't bother to create an agenda (yet!).  I am guessing 
that some people will want to finallise plans for the National Field Day 
at the weekend.

There may also be somebody coming along to ask our advice about wireless 
mesh networks.  Further to that there may be some SOWN things to talk 
about.  In particular, it would be good to organise a SOWN workshop 
sometime in July.  This will mainly be to try to tie up some loose ends, 
tick some things off the todo list and do a bit of preparation to get 
SOWN in a state so it is easier to get people involved next academic 
year.  I suspect people might see a Doodle poll coming round in the next 
day or two.

I have also done some work on the SUWS Wordpress site (i.e. 
https://www.suws.org.uk/wp/) so it may be useful to have anothe look 
over that again and see what else we still need to do to better promote 
the society to new members as well alumni interested in what we are up 
to.  I am hoping to get a few more news articles on there as we only 
have two at the moment and one of them is just me reporting that we 
created a WordPress site.  Obviously, the National Field Day is an ideal 
candidate.  In fact, it would be good to have two articles, one 
straightafter the weekend  talking about what we we got up to and then a 
second one when the RSGB publish results to say how well we did.

If anyone has any good ideas for news articles then please suggest 
them.  We are not particularly looking for a 1000 word essay.  2-3 
paragraphs (and maybe a photo) that impart some interesting/useful 
information is all that is needed for most articles.  I am thinking of 
putting one together for SOWN but have not thought of anything that is 
timely yet.  If we have a SOWN workshop later this month and we can get 
IPv6 working on the nodes that would be the sort of thing worth 
reporting in a news article.

Regards

David Newman