Educause and Internet2 have been sponsoring a monthly webinar series called IAMOnline where various topics are presented and discussed via AdobeConnect. Perhaps a similar approach would work here as it seems like we would easily have more than a years worth of topics.
http://www.incommon.org/iamonline/ Best, Bill Thompson Director, Digital Infrastructure Lafayette College On Oct 6, 2014, at 2:37 PM, Brian Helman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Let me start off by thanking everyone who attended the WIRELESS-LAN CG > meeting last week at the Annual Conference. We were lucky in getting a prime > time slot! We had a good crowd with many of the lists’ discussion points > being tossed around. I’m still surprised how many people in Higher Ed don’t > know about these listserv/CG’s! We need to do a better job getting the > information out to the member institutions. > > 50 minutes isn’t a lot of time, but during the session we touched on: > · 802.11ac (roughly 1/3 of the attendees are using or have started > the migration) > · A nice discussion on whether or not residence halls should be wired > or only wireless > · 2.4GHz vs 5GHz (are people moving to just 5?) > · A quick, but appropriate!, plug for EDUROAM > · Network Access Control > o Gaming Networks (do you support gaming on your wireless network?) > o Guest networks (open-connection, charge for use, sponsored, combination). > > ..and then we ran out of time. > > There has been some discussion on our peer CG lists about virtual meet-ups. > I think that would be very helpful and would be happy to facilitate/moderate > a meet-up. I wanted to get opinions on how this should happen. Personally, > I think we should have subject-specific meet-ups since we’ll probably still > have limited time to work with (e.g just talking about Guest Network > strategies). Thoughts? > > Thank you again. If you didn’t make it to Orlando, consider attending your > regional Connect. For those of you in the Northeast, I’ll hopefully see you > at the NERCOMP Regional Meeting in Providence in the Spring! > > Thank you again, > Brian > > ____________________________________ > Brian Helman, M.Ed | Director, ITS/Networking Services | (: 978.542.7272 > Salem State University, 352 Lafayette St., Salem Massachusetts 01970 > GPS: 42.502129, -70.894779 > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
