the trouble is you have to tread carfully poltically - i think ever man on the street knows why we would setup a free wifi network
In my experence mission statments lean towards the what, in this case its the creation of a free wifi network - the bit about like-minedness is to show unity and teamwork.
the trouble is you have to tread carfully poltically - i think ever man on the street knows why we would setup a free wifi network
In my experence mission statments lean towards the what, in this case its the creation of a free wifi network - the bit about like-minedness is to show unity and teamwork.
Its all about first impressions
Totally agree, its a good start, but have a look at the links I added to my prev, after all, anything worth doing is worth doing well.
From my personal background i find that MS's tend to be short and sweet, a little mind game and your aims is all that is needed. So mega companies will elect to have a 3/4 of a page mission statment
This statment right now have a double purpose, it is to unite internall and agree on a common aim.
alot of people around here want cheap internet, others just a p2p netowkr, others wants games. These are fine aims but they sit upon a network, and that is what we have to remind outselfs that we have to build first off - a network something upon which we can play games or do what ever.
People around here have a habbit of sprinting before they can crawl. This may seem like slowing down the rate at whihc we advance but you will find in the long term sorting out the foundations will mean that further down the line things run like a well oiled machine
having said all that i am not meaning to put down your point of view, the reason i posted here was to stirr up some ideas, please feel free to submit your own statment
NZ Wireless is a team of New Zealand’s finest technical geeks dedicated to building a world class wireless network that operates on the public spectrum that was gifted to all New Zealanders by the New Zealand Government.
Our mission is to build the best public spectrum wireless network in the world.
Why?
Because we can, because we're New Zealanders!!!
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Hello everyone... allow me to step into the ring and have a rant... :)
Ask yourself the following questions when you look at the statement I have made above...
1. Is this a mission that you can find purpose in and be inspired by?
2. Do you feel proud to be involved with what I have said?
3. Do you feel you could excite and inspire your friends and family about what I have said?
4. Do you feel that you are also supporting others around the world by making the statement that I have made?
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I will give you my answers...
1. Yes I can find a personal purpose in this… I can see something that I can do to support this mission (it shouldn’t be hard to find your own purpose in the mission, if it is then the mission is no good!)
This mission also inspires me into action.
2. Yes! I am a New Zealander and I feel proud to be involved in anything that is pitting us against the rest of the world.
I also consider myself one of this countries best geeks! (Now I might be just being big headed but that’s not the point… the idea is that I feel I can relate with the team – see where I’m going? :)
3. Yes I can inspire my friends and family to get behind this… why, because I want New Zealand to build a better network than any other country around the world including those Aussies!!!
4. This is the most important part for a number of reasons…
This mission pits us against the world and not against people or businesses (read Telecom/Telstra) in our own country – that makes the politics easier.
This mission also drives other countries to be better.
We empower people in Australia, the UK, the US, Asia and other places to be better because they look at us and see something they want to compete with!
That is a good thing when you’re working with public spectrum, GPL open source software and a common goal!
The common goal, for those who missed it, is free and open global communication!
HTH
Cheers DiG
__________________ Don Gould
The technology exists to give every home 10mbits per second for $10 per month!
Ask not what your telephone company should do for you...
...but what you can do for your broadband community!
I see where you are coming from but you don't have to be a geek to be involved. We don't have to stick to the public spectrum and we don't have to use GPL or similar software.
"NZ Wireless is a team of like-minded people dedicated to building a free, open and easily accessible wireless network for the people of New Zealand"
I see where you are coming from but you don't have to be a geek to be involved.
Agreed!
In this instance I'm actually playing with the word "geek". I'm suggesting by being involved you become one of our finest geeks... kind of a trendy thing to be :)
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We don't have to stick to the public spectrum and we don't have to use GPL or similar software.
Also agreed, you don't have to do any of those things.... you also won't get very far if you don't ;)
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"NZ Wireless is a team of like-minded people dedicated to building a free, open and easily accessible wireless network for the people of New Zealand"
I left out a number of words for verious reasons:
Free - it's worth what it costs and it isn't free. If it was free I would already be connected however I can't currently aford the $500 set up costs that my local web site suggests it costs.
People also perceive anything like this that's free isn't worth anything and isn't worth being part of as a result. No point in putting money into something that's not worth anything?!
like-minded: I saw you used this term somewhere else on this site and from a marketing point of view I'm sorry to say but it sux! Agree, disagree, I'm not going to argue the point. :)
easily accessible: In marketing you never suggest something that someone could come along and disprove so easierly.
At present this wireless stuff is anything but easy. I have 4 wireless cards and a $500 Netcomm NB3100 wireless router. I can't get it to talk. If I can't make it talk after over 15 years in computers and telecommunications then it's not easy.
...for the people of New Zealand: Ouch! From my experience people would respond with "that's not my job, that's telecoms job" or some such.
Cheers DiG
__________________ Don Gould
The technology exists to give every home 10mbits per second for $10 per month!
Ask not what your telephone company should do for you...
...but what you can do for your broadband community!
But a mission statement is nothing with out some sort of roadmap in place setting out goals and timeframes. (and yes i am well aware that if is the silly season and everyone is bussy).
I think that although it is is good to get everyones opinions on the forums, perhaps it is time for nzwireless to have an AGM and involve all it's members and above all make some concrete decisions. No ideas were to hold it so as to satisfy everyone (but i'm sure with all the knoledge we have in nzwireless some sort of video confrencing can be set up around the country for those that can't travel)
no need right now for a AGM or large group meeting, over the coming weeks me and a few of the others will be working on various bits of the foundations and releaseing them on gere for comments/changes
DIG i think the big thing you may be missing is we are not trying to sell anything.
It is free cause it does not cost you to connect to the network (yes you can say the hardware is not free but nether is a DSL router and you then still have to pay for the connection) you can connect or not it is your free pick
If we get lots of people putting up nodes it will quickly become easily accessible and if someone can't connect to another node then they can always take the approce you are and simple start putting up some nodes so they can connect
Like minded: yes we are like minded. we don't want to forced into having to use one network provider and we want to connect to others to play games and communicate etc, once again no marketing comes into it
I have been working on computers for 18 years but i still have heaps of problems with setting up wireless gear, That is what the IRC channel and this forum is for, the colective knowlage of this group of like minded people is all you will ever need, and all you need to do is ask and i am sure people will help you get your gear working
and no, for me at least, the major joy i get from this is indapendace from Telco's that say they are doing there best when we all know that it is CRAP
Dont think of it as tring to sell something, we are tring to educate people out there about nzwifi and wifi in general
If we get ppl putting up lots of nodes then great but nzwfif still needs to own and run a core network, thats what this mission statment is about, the entity that wil be NZwifi has 2 goals i belive
1) to create a core network around the major cities that will allow for a basic level of connections
2) to provide help, guidelines and policies for non-nzwifi nodes to connect to the network and extend coverege
Dig,
thats not a mission statement.. thats scary... Almost what i'd expect from a tv marketing department on to much caffine to come up with... Sounds way way to much like an infomerical or something... :P
and as trendy as it is to use the word geek in something.. i still don't think its a very good idea to use geek in anything like this
unless of course you were takin' the piss.. then disregard the above comments...
Maybe if you were trying to reach joe average and lure them into hooking their good ol' compaq upto this nifty wifi thing-a-ma-boob.. but.. is that really what is wanted?
THats an option, a good one i would say. remeber if were not lureing them here with free internet then they must have a reason for being intrested, also once they are intrested lets educate they to the extenet they know what 802.11b is
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