Meeting:2007/10/30

Meeting (to be) held on 2007/10/30 at 19:00 in Mary Campbell Room

Previous meeting: 2 October 2007 19:00:00 Next meeting: 8 November 2007 19:00:00

Agenda

• Node Requests:
  • Discuss request for nodes
  • Decide on some allocations if suitable requests exist
• 802.11a: Any further ideas on how to progress
  • Paul has spoken to Steve Braithwaite re: testing 802.11a
  • Weekend session for final checks?
• Expansion Requirement of the Network (with research in mind)
• Website and Admin site: What still needs to be done
• IPv6: what is happening, does anyone need to do anything?
• Committee email-groups: update?
• Should the public be able to subscribe/unsubscribe from sown mailing list?
• Do we need another machine on the network (to avoid breaking the important ones?)
  • Debian install of servers
• Solutions to VPN tunnel reconnection problem when a homenodes ADSL connection dies
• Wierd DNS issues on SOWN
• AOB

Minutes

• Node requests: Don't have one at the moment, Colin will do one soon
• 802.11a: Saturday Surgery 1pm. Test all equipment.
• Expansion: Development servers: sown-vpn2 set up.
• Website: Colin not here will discuss next week
• IPv6: Skipped
• Email lists: Dave Tarrant will speak to Jules
• Mailing List: Yes when we have other mailing lists (technical details)
• Another machine: Server sown-vpn2 made
• VPN problem:
  • Use UDP (might not fix problem, but is good for streaming etc.)
  • Cron job + sighup etc.
• DNS: Users.sown.org.uk fix
• Deployment of development stuff
  • IPv6 would be first (use developer server: sown6core (to be built)
    • Routing: quagga