[CUWiN-Dev] Re: Introductions, CuWIN and Wifidog

[Sean Fioritto]

Michael,

My name is Sean Fioritto. I'm working for CUWIN as an intern. They've
put me in charge of looking into WiFiDog, (which as of now, it looks
excellent), and then bringing it into our project. I'm sure that I
will be asking plenty of technical questions on the list shortly.

thanks,
Sean

On 6/3/05, Michael Lenczner <mlenczner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sascha asked me to write you guys.  I'm from the Montreal group -
> IleSansFil.  We developped WifiDog.  Apparently some of you are be
> interested in the project?  If you don't know about Wifidog then:
> 
> -embedded captive portal - written in C
> -auth server - PHP
> -central control
> -full bandwidth accounting, node heartbeating
> -local content specific to each hotspot and to each user (text,
> images, audio, rss feeds, flickr via the api)
> -doesn't rely on a javascript window, so it works with any platform
> with a web browser, including PDAs and cellphones that can only open
> one window (as well as consol-based browsers)
> 
> 
> We've got 5-6 developpers on the project, with 4 of them fairly - very
> active.  2 on the gateway and 2 on the auth server.  Some of the stuff
> we're working on short-term are bandwidth throttling / abuse control,
> making the auth server more modular, profiles for users, and regaining
> MySQL support.
> 
> Once we get done with that we're interested in GIS stuff and making
> Jabber work on our system so that we have location-specific (and/or
> possibly gis specific) chat-rooms.  Or maybe that's just what I'm
> interested in ;-)
> 
> We've got 50 hotspots and 5500 users - so we deal with bugs fairly quickly.
> 
> They're is a lot of momentum towards using Wifidog in different
> situations and in regards to different goals.  Lots of groups on the
> wifidog-dev mailing list right now (Paris, London, NYC -about to setup
> wifidog, Toronto and BCwireless (both with wifidog auth servers).
> London is very interested in marrying captive portals with the
> freifunk firmware.  If we can help out in any way, please don't be shy
> about asking.
> 
> I'm responsable for administration.  Technical questions would be much
> better off sent to the wifidog mailing list, not to me.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Michael Lenczner
> 
> Some links:
> 
> http://www.ilesansfil.org/wiki/WiFiDog
> 
> http://auth.ilesansfil.org  - our live auth server
> 
> http://auth.ilesansfil.org/portal/index.php?gw_id=19 - one of our
> portal pages.  Notice the list on the left-hand side of users
> currently online.
> 
> http://listes.ilesansfil.org/ - wifidog mailing list -down this morning
> 
> http://chinabone.lth.bclub.org.uk/~saul/docs/projects/wlon/slog/2005/05/16/#wifidog_c_fuckups
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