[wirelesstoronto-discuss] stuff at Ile Sans Fil

[Gabe Sawhney]

I lurk on the volunteers mailing list of Ile Sans Fil (our sister group in
Montreal).  Here's a summary of some of the stuff they discussed at their
last meeting:

- They ran event wifi for PodCamp Montreal, which had 500 attendees.
- They might be running event wifi for the Montreal Game Summit, which has
around 2000 attendees.  They're working on some special equipment for this.
- They're floating the idea of a second-tier network membership for venues;
it'd be $120 or $240/year.  The venue would be identified on the map in a
different colour, it'd come with a higher level of personal service at the
time of installation, would allow them to edit some content on the portal
page, and would offer bandwidth limiting.  Plus they'd be providing
additional support to ISF.
- They recently implemented a new bandwidth usage policy for users.
- They've got an iPhone application coming out, which sounds a bit like the
"Wireless Toronto" app.  (Which we have nothing to do with.)  They're going
to be offering a free and a $2 version.
- They're trying to figure out how to resolve the problem of that wifidog
allows non-case-sensitive usernames.
- They're rethinking their current 20-minute grace period upon account
creation, recognizing that many accounts are never validated.  Options
they're considering are: offering a 24-hour grace period, better
instructions/interface, redirecting new users to the webmail login of their
email service provider (when possible), and taking whatever steps possible
to ensure that validation emails don't end up in spam folders.
- The next major version of wifidog is in development; they're sprinting
with monthly releases.  The major new features are an API to facilitate
Wordpress-based portal pages, and remote router configuration.
- They're working on a system that'll allow venues to pay their annual
network membership fees by credit card.
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