Meeting:2011/09/22

Meeting (to be) held on 2011/09/22 at 19:00 in Access Grid Room

Previous meeting: 15 September 2011 19:00:00 Next meeting: 29 September 2011 18:00:00

Agenda with Minutes

• Amateur Radio
  • RSGB affiliation (phil/daveruss)
    • Waiting on form return from regional admin to send to national.
  • Freshers Week 2011 (phil)
    • Bunfight
      • HeliosFA to sort out attendance

• Promotion (daveruss)
  • Flyers
    • Finished and Produced
  • Jumpstart Presentation - http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/drn/stuff/suws_jumpstart_presentation_1112_v3.pptx (Davetaz)
    • HeliosFA will present
  • Posters
    • Probably can be printed using ECS printing facilities

• Nodes (daveruss)
  • Adelaide Road
    • Dead power supply, despite working when tested
  • Winchester
    • Back online

• Admin Tasks
  • Move SOWN and trunk ports to the Access Grid room (Davetaz)
    • Network points wired into server room
    • 1Gbps up-link needed to protect from UG broadcast traffic
  • Wiki usage for meetings, workshops, etc. (daveruss)
    • meetings, workshops and outings functionality added to SUWS wiki, and events moved
    • separate meetings, with joint minutes on SUWS wiki.
    • joint meetings from 6:45 - 7:15

• To Do List Cleanup
  • http://www.sown.org.uk/todo/task/371
    • warning if email inbox > 0, last message date given implemented
    • marked as complete
  • http://www.sown.org.uk/todo/task/394
    • Icinga checks should go unknown rather than critical when node is down
    • task given is example of this problem
    • but problem is more general to Icinga
    • web interface has no option to hide checks where node is down
  • http://www.sown.org.uk/todo/task/381
  • http://www.sown.org.uk/todo/task/323
    • need to adjust current script to return values suitable for Icinga

• SOWN Projects and Workshop Review
  • OpenWRT backfire packages (Leth)
    • Workshop on 24/09/11
  • Eduroam on SOWN (Davetaz and mike)
    • Campus-wide is complete
    • Test peering to enable remote access using SOWN credentials
  • Automatic community account creation from SOWN IPs (daveruss)
    • Automatic access on temporary basis for email-access to activate account
    • needs further work on login system first
    • OpenID good idea, but access needed to OpenID providers without wider access

• Icinga Alerts
  • The Battyness of the UG switch stack.

• AOB