The May 2004 Galveston Community Network (GCN) Monthly Meeting will be at Noon Wed 12 May at the County Building, Commissioner's Hearing Room, First Floor of the Holbrook Building, 601 23rd (Tremont) Street, Galveston.  ((The Holbrook Building is on the Southwest Corner of the 23rd(Tremont) and Church Street intersection.  Parking and Entry to the Holbrook Building is from Church Street between 23rd and 24th Streets.))  Lunch will be provided.

Agenda –

            Tom Bridgewarter of Pexx presenting on using mesh technology for providing 802.11x coverage

Schedule Aug – Dec Meetings

            Subcommittees Updates

                        - Kiosk - content updating (lead - TAMUG)

                           Reminder – TAMUG will host Admin training on the Kiosk Admin Software at 1pm on Wed 19 May in CLB room 114

                        - Wireless - Implementation (lead - GC)

                        - PR - Lead - UTMB

                        - Fiber connectivity via city fiber

- Community Needs Assessment (GC Lead)

- TIFF Grant Punch List (TAMUG lead)

            Future Meeting topics (vendor demos, etc.)

At the April meeting Gary Anderson demo’d the improvements to the library system that we procured with the TIF Grant funding.  We discussed the coordination of the City Fiber project.  Currently the County and City are working on an inter local agreement for a possible fiber run up Broadway-Jeff is taking the lead on this. 

TIFF Grant Punch list are –

- Kiosk – Point all Kiosks to server at A&M

            - Installing final kiosk-Letter has been sent to Port requesting that we partner on providing the service

                        -  Training on Concierge the template system to add info – 19 May

            - Develop good process for updating content

            - UTMB purchase and develop content for kiosks (related but not funded by TIFF grant)

- Wireless –

            - Getting TAMUG remote sites up w/ connectivity to Mitchell campus

            - Creating connectivity between TAMUG and CG (firewalls, routing lists, etc.)

            - Getting other member remote sites up w/ connectivity to organizations central sites

            - Getting connectivity between all members (firewalls, routing lists, etc.)

            - No Profit

-          Establish by laws and any other necessary paperwork for non profit status

-          Transferring property to 501c – In progress

Future meetings -                     

            Jun 9 –     UTMB

July 14 -   TAMUG

            Aug 11 -

            Sept. 8 -

            Oct 13 -

            Nov 10 -

            Dec 8 -