[wirelesstoronto-discuss] stuff at Ile Sans Fil

[Michele Perras]

Inspired by Chris Messina's talk this evening- how difficult or  
relevant would it be to integrate OpenID as the WT auth?

On 2009-10-20, at 1:50 PM, jason roks <jason at wirelesstoronto.ca> wrote:

> 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
> -
>
>
> 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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