Meeting:2008/05/01

Meeting (to be) held on 2008/05/01 at 19:00 in Mary Campbell Room

Previous meeting: 24 April 2008 19:00:00 Next meeting: 8 May 2008 19:00:00

Minutes

SOWN Projects Group (SOWN-PG)

• Progress on:
  • SOWN VoIP
    • No one to report
  • 802.1x - Progress on report
    • No one to report
  • Location Tracking
    • User:AndrewWillmott has not had a chance to do any work on this

Other Issues

• Public IPv4 for SOWN
  • Tim thought report overestimated slightly
  • Tim will meet with us a some point to discuss further

• New Soekris board order update
  • Board has arrived
  • Won't get pass BIOS without serial cable attached
  • Soekris emailed about the problem

• SOWN press release update. See Current Draft (v4)
  • Stuart not here to give update

• Return of Home nodes
  • morse will send email
  • Ask for return by last day of semester 2 if node owners are moving or leaving
  • Owner on Forster Road node can keep their node and move it to Shakespheare Avenue

• Handling problematic nodes
  • Are Helpdesk willing to send out emails to two nodes that have been down over 2 months?
  • User:DavidNewman hasn't had a chance to ask helpdesk if they can do this

• Website/DNS Move - Any problems?
  • DNS move does not seem to have happened yet
  • User:DavidNewman has gone through and removed all remote includes on sown.org.uk

• Expansion of user community
  • zepler.net - Already possible. Liaise with Dave Challis to get this up and running
  • alumni.soton.ac.uk - waiting for an external company to get back to us on this
  • sown.org.uk - To be request able from the contact us page that is to be put on auth and then manually created. *** Not done yet as far as those present at meeting aware

• Speeding up load time of SOWN homepage
  • Map seems to load fast enough at the moment so no need to use any of the caching idea suggested.

• SOWN Portal
  • Useful links portlet added
  • SOWN announcements portlet still to be done

• Authentication for devices without web interface
  • User:Morse has created database table and started to write PHP frontpage to allow user to add one MAC address that will automatically be authenicated when the user logs into SOWN.

• AOB
  • We did some documentation at the workshop last weekend