I would love to have a mesh setup, suggestions on software/hardware..?

As this isn't open to the general public, we will have less need for caching since the internal systems are mostly text based web pages...

The hotspots will be password protected...

It's funny how the "non potheads" can't think outside the box enough to realize this is for the 2014 Hempfest, not the 2013 one which ended last weekend on the 18th... ;)

Cable, fiber, and DSL are difficult, if not impossible, to run into Myrtle Edwards park, and I'm guessing the city would never allow it unless it was their idea.

As a passive repeater, possibly...?

OP was completely sober when posting the question. Trust me, I know him. ;)

We do have generators on-site...

You missed a few stereotypes in there...

True, but I'm getting a head start on the 2014 (August 15-17, always the third weekend in August) Hempfest... ;)

Here is their contact page link

Let them know what you think!

Yeah, that George Soros and Richard Branson, they really messed up their lives, smoking pot. Such bums!

Yes you can, it's called Tom's of Maine, but read the label, not all varieties are fluoride free!

Tom's of Maine Website

I think, in 3 years time, Drupal will be much easier to use, if they keep doing usability testing every version.

However, the code freeze may cause some issues that surface later to be difficult to fix in core for UX/UI issues, and could possibly have to wait until a later major version of Drupal to fix. Don't get me wrong, I love Drupal, and use it almost exclusively, unless I'm forced to use one of the other CMS's....

Code in the database, if it has errors in it, will cause the cron.php script to fail when it updates the search index for those pages... PHP input filter is a very bad way of doing things, you are better off writing a proper module.