Meeting:2009/09/24

Meeting (to be) held on 2009/09/24 at 19:00 in Coffee Room

Previous meeting: 10 September 2009 19:00:00 Next meeting: 1 October 2009 19:00:00

Minutes

• New Academic Year
  • Bunfight
    • What are our aims?
      • Cover the bunfight
        • Test SUSU
        • Cover Jubilee (2 network points in diagonal corners)
      • Recruit people
    • Who are we sending?
      • Going to do Shifts of people
        • Morse & Davetaz (9-11)
        • Daveruss (11-1)
        • Marcus (11-3)
        • Colin (??-3)
    • What are we taking?
      • R200
      • Extra meraki
      • Aerials and dishes
      • Yaggi

• Introductory Meetings
  • Dates/Times.Location/Content
    • Preferably in Zepler
    • Thurs 8th 7pm (Davetaz can't make this)
    • Wed 14th 1.15pm (Davetaz can't make this)
• Additional Promotion of SOWN
  • to attract new members
    • Messages in some/all of the following locations:
      • Home Page
      • Login Page
      • Portal
  • to attract more users
    • Posters in locations where SOWN is available (Hall Bars, Pubs)
      • Yes. There is a poster somewhere. Daveruss will distribute them where appropriate.
  • To flesh out at surgery/next meeting.

• Deployment of Remaining Nodes
  • How many are left? 15
  • How many do we need to keep for conferences, development/replacement etc? 4
  • How are we going to attract new hosts? An ECS-all email at some point into term.

• SOWN[at]HOME Nodes
  • Halls' Bars' nodes (daveruss)
    • Looking to deploy more when possible.
    • Planning to distribute posters
    • Network points are being added to some bars.
  • Buying new nodes (Davetaz)
    • Davetaz is ordering one to a hotel in America.
  • Default bandwidth limit
    • No progress.
  • Bandwidth accounting for multiple users on same device (Leth)
    • No progress.

• Admin Tasks
  • Nagios changes
    • Also now shedules downtime on flappy services on backup.
    • 'sync' needs adding to the backup scripts.
  • Resilient LDAP
    • No progress
  • Prevent modifications to the running kernel and arbitrary memory modification
    • No progress

• Todo List
  • todo:task/55
    • Done.
  • todo:task/99
    • To email webmaster at sown.
  • todo:task/168
    • Need to review scripts at in the.

• Mobile phone Nagios alerts (morse)
  • No progress

• Next Saturday Surgery plans
  • Prepare for bunfight.
  • Fix the fridge. Daveruss is bringing tools.
  • review todo:task/168
  • Check crwilliams' node.

• Projects
  • 6pack.org (Davetaz and morse)
    • To discuss at the Pub.
  • 802.11r (Jos)
    • Not present. Waiting for us to do some work.
    • We need to document on the wiki page what this project is and how we think it should be done.
  • Mobile IPv6 (SjH)
    • No SjH.
    • We want to work out an install method not reliant on a LiveCD.
  • SOWN single Eduroam cloud (SjH,

Davetaz and morse)

• • • No SjH.
  • 802.1x (TheBase)
    • No TheBase.
  • Location Tracking (AndrewWillmott)
    • No progress.

• AOB
  • Undergrad projects
    • Mesh network
    • VoIP
    • 6pack web design
      • Check the result with cgutteridge's website checking script
  • October 17th is the next surgery after this week.
  • Novemeber 21st is moving to November 14th