wifidog blowing up more
update: i haven’t really ever explained what wifidog really is and what we want to do with it. the closest I’ve come is here and this. This is Jo’s work and it’s basically the same (except more hardcore semantic and gis)- which is why we’re working with her.
We *did* show some of that to the people at the presentation - so that’s the context for the top 2 quotes. I’ll have more to say (and show - thanks to patrick) soon. I just gotta find a couple hours to write some explanation to the new UI. (not to say that the UI needs documentation. it’s pretty self-explanatory. but to explain the full extent of why it’s so cool to you guys and to ISF members will take some documentation). alternatively I could use some video -if i weren’t such a scaredy-cat.
“Nocat Auth is dead, long live WifiDog” (from a member seattle wireless who was at the presentation)
WifiDog really shines in aggreating content and making it available in splash pages. It can take dynamic data feeds, such as geo-coded or location based information feeds and display it to people on the splash page. It has google maps integration and sports a monitoring map that shows you all the status your nodes running wifidog and will alert you if a node goes down. In addition the fact that is designed to aggreate information feeds means that you could feed stuff such as Itunes sharing bonjour advertisements and display that on the portal page. I saw it demonstrated at a session this weekend and am extremeley impressed. I encourage anyone looking for a captive portal based solution to check it out.”
from someone else at the presentation
“You know, this is a really interesting product and it really needs to be looked at more closely.”
go read the rest of it if you’re interested in local content.
Build a Secure Wireless Portal with Linux
March 17, 2006
By Carla Schroder
“While NoCatAuth is probably the most famous captive portal, it’s not being actively developed anymore. It still works fine, and there is an active user community, but the devs seem to have stuck a fork in it and pronounced it done. My current favorite is WiFiDog. It’s tiny, around 30K, and is completely self-contained with no dependencies.”