[wirelesstoronto-discuss] stuff at Ile Sans Fil

[jason roks]

I like the idea of a premium service for venues to cover costs for those who
want to take advantage of the portal pages. I am not suggesting
any pricing scheme but I think the idea has merit to help stimulate portal
development.
also for us, just catching up on past venue billing would be a good first
step =)

Is there any discussion about auto login? maybe the iphone app can offer
that?

It would be good to piggy back on their iphone development.

Ile Sans Fil really started all this for us and I think we need to keep a
closer eye on how they operate because they have had much more success that
we have in TO. I recognize the perception of free wifi is very different
here -- it is expected here as it is in Vancity.
Over all it is a fact that Toronto has very little free/open wifi compared
to other cities in Canada and the world.  I am sure WT can continue to
change that.

I'm pleased to see the discussion list is active again. I'm looking forward
to hearing and seeing what the WT community has to say and will do about all
this.

Jason
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2009/10/20 Gabe Sawhney <gabe at pwd.ca>

> 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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