Re: eduroam Australia update

[Klaas Wierenga <klaas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi James,

Great to hear that things are moving down under! I will be visiting 
eResearch Australasia end of September and I look forward to the "open 
your laptop and be online" experience as well as meeting some of you in 
person!

Cheers,

Klaas

> The eduroam project group participated in a QUESTNET conference last 
> week, where we provided eduroam wireless access and a helpdesk to 
> promote the service and to help end users.  The result was that
>
>  
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> 1.       51 people used the service as opposed to the STD conference 
> wireless
>
> 2.       74 devices connected successfully, including WinXP, Vista, MAC 
> (up to 10.5.4), Linux, the Asus EEE PC, and with our Linux guru Stephen 
> Walsh we even got the OLTP (one laptop per child) eduroam enabled!!
>
> 3.       We successfully added 5 institutions at the conference with 
> many more pledging to join and improve their authorized services offerings
>
> 4.       We backed up the profile with a give-away of wifi enabled 
> t-shirts to those who joined their institutions at the conference or 
> were close to doing so. 
>
>  
>
> The eduroam wiki has the latest details on eduroam, including a new 
> flyer, and some photos from the helpdesk! - 
> https://wiki.aarnet.edu.au/display/eduroam/Home
>
>  
>
> We as a group are committed to supporting eduroam access at eResearch 
> Australasia in November, other events are being considered and 
> confirmed.  We are also developing our support material for the 
> different OSes (again please see our wiki).
>
>  
>
> I must acknowledge the support of the group to its success, especially 
> Lincoln Short, Stephen Walsh, Glen Turner, Brook Schofield and Mark 
> Laffan, and Mahmoud abo Elwafa for network support and Joan Hummer for 
> getting our embroidered t-shirts ready in time.
>
>  
>
> Please let us know if you need more information,
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>  
>
> Best wishes
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>  
>
>  
>
> James Sankar
>
> Director, Applications & Services
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