Meeting:2010/04/22

Meeting (to be) held on 2010/04/22 at 19:00 in Mary Campbell Room

Previous meeting: 1 April 2010 19:00:00 Next meeting: 29 April 2010 19:00:00

Minutes

• New Committee
  • crwilliams now holds the position of President
  • Tyler now holds the position of Secretary
  • Graeme now holds the position of Node Deployment Officer
  • daveruss continues to hold the position of Social Secretary
  • Thomas now holds the position of Webmaster
  • Wiki pages have been updated accordingly

• Wifi Survey (daveruss)
  • This has been advertised to taught students by email and the notices page
  • We have received one response already today

• Aims for the rest of the academic year (crwilliams)
  • Purpose of Meetings
    • Discussed the idea of doing some work during meetings
  • Key Projects
    • There are a couple of projects that are key to both SOWN and ECS, but needs to be done in conjunction with the ECS Systems team.
      • IPv6 support
      • Cloning of zaphod
      • Wifi Survey
  • Priority Tasks
    • todo:task/63
    • todo:task/283
    • todo:task/284
  • Increase involvement of undergraduates
    • The undergraduates would like to experiment with some kit

• Workshop Planning
  • Focus will be the bandwidth accounting, in particular the priority tasks identified above.

• Infrastructure Issues
  • Ajax Login test script (daveruss)
    • We will look into this at next week's 'active meeting' which will be held in a location with SOWN coverage.
  • Antenna on Faraday (daveruss)
    • We have been provided with an antenna, but it isn't ours. We need to discuss this with Estates and Facilities.

• SOWN[at]HOME Nodes
  • Lilac Road (HeliosFA)
    • This has had its power supply replaced and is now working again.
  • Steep Close (morse)
    • We have not heard from Lionel, but morse will contact him regarding this.
  • Omdurman Road (daveruss)
    • This has not been up since the Easter vacation. daveruss will chase this up once the current travel situation eases.
  • We have two broken power supplies now, so we need to order some 7.5V, 1A power supplies.

• Admin Stuff
  • Message responses system (daveruss)
    • This is now complete.
  • To Do List 'Under Review' status (crwilliams)
    • This has been created but needs some more work.
    • Creator and owner are not necessarily the same. We need another field to capture this.

• To Do List
  • Monitor links to iSolutions / Winchester (crwilliams)
    • We should not be sending notifications on 'UNREACHABLE' hosts but should probably show up in the snapshot.
    • The snapshot ought to show links that are down.
  • "Janet News" article (crwilliams)
    • No progress.
  • Sown-VPN Individual Log File Monitoring (crwilliams)
    • This has been completed.
  • Check all nodes have at least one admin (SjH)
    • No progress.
  • Audit of community accounts to make sure no email address has more than one account (daveruss)
    • No progress.

• Updates on Projects
  • Greynet Testbed for 3rd year project (morse)
    • No progress.
  • OpenMesh Nodes (morse)
    • We would like to create a new setupnode system which is SVN based.
  • IPv6 on IRB (morse)
    • No progress.
  • SOWN VoIP (crwilliams)
    • No progress.
  • Mobile IPv6 (SjH)
    • No progress.
  • 802.11n (morse)
    • No progress.
  • Location Tracking (Andrew_W)
    • No progress.

• AOB