There is no coflict of interest between you and your employer Trvln nzwireless is a community based project. what you are saying is the same as if you worked for pet corner you wouldn't be able to volenteer your time at the SPCA finding homes for strays.

The idea of charging a small fee for access to the network is another idea worth exploring but if you do this you no longer have the illussion of the network being FREE. you will also run into the other hassel of network reliability which if some one is paying for a service they expect to to be running most of the time.

But by keeping the illusion of it being FREE then you don't have as much of a problem because you make people aware (through marketing ) that nzwireless is a community based project that is run completly by volenteers and we don't have the reasources to send someone out at midnight to fix the network problem. With all that in mind people will not expect us to be faultless.