Meeting:2009/03/26

Meeting (to be) held on 2009/03/26 at 19:00 in Mary Campbell Room

Previous meeting: 19 March 2009 19:00:00 Next meeting: 2 April 2009 19:00:00

Minutes

• SOWN[at]HOME Nodes (daveruss)
  • Return of University road #250
    • Contacted Node Host and Tutor and have had no response
    • Contact the original budget holder for SOWN[at]HOME nodes to see how to proceed
  • New Deployment problems
    • Lionel's Node is down because his hub is broken
    • Oxford Avenue (#261) - No progress

• Admin tasks
  • mysql-replication problem on Sown-vpn
    • Drop sown_data on Sown-vpn and nothing seems to have broken
    • Will leave for at least a week to make sure there is no problem before removing replication
  • Nagios warnings for Sown-vpn's mysql backup (crwilliams)
    • Conflict between old and new backup scripts, old script now removed
  • PHP Code Cleanup
    • News/Meeting scraping scripts moved to Sown-auth (daveruss)
      • Scripts moved to auth and function added to get news/meetings in sown-common-functions
      • Ultimately this should use XSLT using the news and event feeds
  • Webpages have been made xhtml 1.0 strict valid. Nagios has been used to monitor the pages and not display logo if not valid
  • Wiki cleanup (crwilliams)
    • Andy will sort out getting his files that have broken links

• SOWN Core Network Update (Davetaz)
  • Two new servers will arrive shortly (memory/hard disks already here)

• Plans for potential Saturday Surgery
  • 5/6 people available for surgery this weekend. daveruss will send an email
  • Tasks
    • Writing General Presentation
    • Sorting out non htdocs files on helios
    • Wiki Cleanup (in particular broken links)
    • Using XSLT for News/Meetings gadgets
    • Sort out eduroam cloud

• WiMAX
  • NDA

• Mobile IPv6 (SjH)
  • Testing of IPv6 on SUSU
  • No Real Progress - waiting on non-SOWN people

• 802.11r (Jos)
  • Not Present

• SOWN VoIP (Inipairus)
  • Not Present

• Location Tracking (AndrewWillmott)
  • No Progress

• Extending Meraki Coverage (Lionel)
  • Found some 20dBI directional aerials for ~ 100 pound
  • Greater range could be donen through having two directional aerials (one transmit/one receive)

• SOWN-single Eduroam cloud (SjH and Davetaz and morse)
  • No Progress

• Link-Layer Filtering (morse)
  • No Progress

• Documentation
  • General Presentation for SOWN
    • Do this at the surgery this weekend
  • Recovering presentations from Dell laptop with corrupt Windows partition (SjH)
    • (morse) has had a look ... its _very_ corrupt
  • ECS-installed XP machine has been backed-up to backup3.
    • To restore write the partition table to the disk using dd, reboot. dd the sda1 and sda2 images into the corresponding partitions.
  • Modifying wiki server pages to use a better template - Human readable text will appropriate tags generates the semantic data table

• AOB
  • morse has implemented a script so you know which physical port a server is connected to.
  • morse has moved the routing code on dev (sown-vpn2) into PHP to aid `rapid development' of the eduroam-cloud.