[OpenWireless Tech] a quick note about list etiquette: please post about projects

[Todd Freeman]

Thank you for this message, it clarifies the purpose of this mailing list greatly.
So in keeping with the nature of that message I would like to say this:

I am currently working on providing turn-key open source wifi network management suite, which you could consider similar to openwisp.
Currently the only hurdle I am facing is getting the authentication to work correctly.

I am trying to set it up so a captive portal (http://coova.org/CoovaChilli) has a create account function, which create the account via radius/ldap which it already supports, but additionally, the ldap should also create duplicate or linked info that also creates a mail account on a zimbra mailserver (which already does ldap for accounts nativity) and an OpenID on http://www.packetizer.com/security/openid/
which I believe also supports ldap. The only problem is I am not familiar with ldap at all.

So any help with this would be appreciated.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Auerbach" <dan at eff.org>
To: tech at srv1.openwireless.org
Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2012 3:24:06 PM
Subject: [OpenWireless Tech] a quick note about list etiquette: please post	about projects

Hi everyone,

First I want to thank everyone for participating, as there has been a
lot of fruitful discussion on the list since the openwireless.org
launch. The topic that we are trying to cover is huge and multifaceted,
and we at EFF are not in a position to actively manage the discussion
both due to time constraints and lack of expertise in some topic areas.

In general, the list discussion has been good and I don't want this
email to imply otherwise. In order to keep this as focused as possible,
I'd like to suggest that as a rule of thumb that people aim to post
about concrete projects. So for example, one might say things like:

-"Here is a github link related to X"
-"Have you heard of group Y, who is doing project Z? Is anyone working
here in touch with them?"
-"We are starting project W, and had the following question"
-"Would the following commands achieve Q for this firmware I'm working on?"

This way we can stay on track, and are less likely to fall into loud
disagreements. I don't want to disparage discussion -- which in general
has been on target and interesting to me -- but if you find yourself
rat-holing, I think IRC is a great place to have that argument.

Thanks,
Dan

-- 
Dan Auerbach
Staff Technologist
Electronic Frontier Foundation
dan at eff.org
415 436 9333 x134

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