Wally, firstup, as a ham radio op type person myself, kudos to you for doing this. :) I know exactly what youre facing in terms of our bandplan gradually getting sucked away...
PS: The Auckland VHF Group club rooms can be made available for a group of say up to fifty people if you get stuck sorting out a place for your first NZNOG Conference.It's in Hazel Ave,Mt Roskill.The building is of school class room size sited on the Council Reserve.I know of another radio ham Simon from Cisco who may wish to rally up support for NZNOG.There are other radio hams that work in the IP industry also.Would you like to invite them to NZNOG Conference also or have a closed meeting instead.
The issue becomes that of focus. Most of the issues facing network operators in NZ today are very much..um.. seperated from areas which have direct influence on Amateur Issues. I.e. I dont see all that many amateurs (in a general sense) having a direct interest in much of what would be topical for an NZNOG Conference. Of course there are exceptions :) I do however think, knowing the club rooms at Hazel Ave, that it isnt necessarily ideal. Although it'd be interesting. :) Cheers and 73 Mark Foster (ZL1VMF) PS - to subscribe to nznog you need to email majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz with 'subscribe nznog' in the body - dont email the list itself. Forgot to put this on the other message... - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog