Meeting:2008/04/24

Meeting (to be) held on 2008/04/24 at 19:00 in Mary Campbell Room

Previous meeting: 17 April 2008 19:00:00 Next meeting: 1 May 2008 19:00:00

Minutes

SOWN Projects Group (SOWN-PG)

• Progress on:
  • SOWN VoIP
    • Nothing to report
  • 802.1x - Progress on report
    • Nothing to report
  • Location Tracking
    • Nothing to report

Other Issues

• Public IPv4 for SOWN
  • Progress on report
    • Minor grammatical/spelling changes required
    • Turn lists into lists
    • 'Community Access' should be moved to earlier in document
    • 32 addresses per node is not ideal, adjust values

• Propose `documentation' as a new Project Group
  • Sounds dull but does need work

• Putting Voyage Linux on Soekris Board for Zepler B
  • Alternatively fix the hostap driver in openwrt.
  • The Soekris Board is broken and a new one is ordered
    • The board is believed to have bent

• SOWN press release. See Current Draft (v4)
  • Awaiting work by Joyce

• Handling problematic nodes
  • Were Helpdesk willing to send out emails to two nodes that have been down over 2 months?
    • Nothing to report - Daveruss to work on this

• Website
  • Links from map, node status and portal page for each node from URL manually entered as a field for the node in the database if node owner requests.
    • Done
  • Have sown-auth pages been migrated to the new style?
    • Done

• Website/DNS Move
  • Expected move date
    • Early next week
  • Website changes required before move
    • Remote 'include's not allowed
    • May want to ask Chris Gutteridge to run checker to identify issues

• Expansion of user community
  • How to authenticate logins from zepler.net and alumni.soton.ac.uk
    • zepler.net should be possible via radius, awaiting info
    • alumni.soton.ac.uk is handled by an external company
  • Request for sown.org.uk accounts from contact us page
    • Is contact us page available without login so people can request sown.org.uk accounts or report login problems
      • Not yet. Work still to be completed
    • Has contact us page been linked from splash screen

• Speeding up load time of SOWN homepage
  • Circles have been removed from map on the homepage and nodeapproval page but still on main map page
  • Dave Newman to look into caching/snapshotting map

• SOWN Portal
  • Have new features been added
    • Originally requested URL link
      • Done
    • Useful links portlet (including link to node's URL if appropriate)
      • Needs to be done
    • SOWN announcements portlet
      • Needs to be done
    • People can create portlets on sown-dev

• Authentication for devices without web interface
  • Facility to register one MAC address that is automatically authenticated if user has logged in that day
    • To be implemented - one week expiration of MAC if requested by other user

• AOB