[CUWiN-Dev] introduction

[Sascha Meinrath]

I've also been in contact with various Ile Sans Fil folks -- one of their 
members sat on a panel I hosted for the Qualitative Inquiry Congress a few 
weeks back.  WiFiDog sounds like a pretty amazing project, and has an 
active group of developers working on it.  I think that putting this on 
Sean's plate makes a lot of sense.

--Sascha

> Executive Summary
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>
>        Let's give WiFiDog a shot.
>
> Rationale
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>
>        WiFiDog will add a valuable option to the CUWiN distribution.
>        I just got back Sunday from Ottawa, ON, where I attended BSDCan
>        2005 (www.bsdcan.org).  Mina Naguib presented the work of the
>        Montreal wireless group, ilesansfil.org, especially WiFiDog and
>        its back-end.  I was impressed with Ile Sans Fil does to provide
>        community- and locale-specific information through their portal,
>        and I want for us to duplicate that on our network.  I feel very
>        confident in the design decisions Mina has made for WiFiDog.
>        He did not think that a port to any BSD would be difficult.
>
> Plan
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>
> Here is what I propose for Sean to do, in roughly this order:
>
>        (1) Look at what WiFiDog is missing that NoCatSplash and
>            ChilliSpot have.
>
>        (2) Stop; make a decision whether or not to proceed with step #3.
>
>        (3) Pull WiFiDog into CUWiN on a vendor branch.
>
>        (4) Port WiFiDog to NetBSD/IPFilter---careful, do not duplicate
>            anybody's work!
>
>        (5) Send patches back to Ile Sans Fil.
>
>        (6) Do a reachover build of WiFiDog.
>
> I would like for there to be documentation of steps (3), (5), and (6).
> Bryan Cribbs (bdcribbs at ojctech.com) and I (dyoung at pobox.com) have both
> executed all of these steps more than once, so just ask.
>
> Dave

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