Wireless Toronto

Venue relations projects:

• invoicing
  • Teriyaki Experience: $1,050 (talk to them first!)
  • Harbourfront: $250
  • St. Lawrence Market: network membership renewal ($250) + connectivity costs
  • other venues
• Venue sprint!
• find big venues to target and/or BIAs

Promotion projects:

• post announcement of our two newest venues: Woody's and Fade-In Cafe
• improve public website
• source better stickers
• add a “governance” page to the public website

Volunteer coordination projects:

• recruit, recruit, recruit!

Sponsorship & fundraising

• Follow up on Linksys and Teksavvy sponsorship opportunities
• Follow up on CSI-ENP grant opportunity
• Look for free consulting to help us put together a business plan
• Have meetings with potential sponsors to figure out what would be of value to them

Operations projects:

• better coverage in Dufferin Grove Park
• better coverage at Yonge-Dundas Square
• research increasing Harbourfront coverage to include the Enwave Theatre
• inquire: better coverage at Woody's?
• install a power cut-off switch at St. Lawrence Market and show some tenants how to use it
• fix openvpn on a few routers
• make sure that auth server logs are rotating and that it's being properly backed up

Technical Support projects:

• build a team & figure out how to manage requests
• design a support FAQ for the website and phone system

R&D projects/tasks:

• implement a small-scale mesh to test Acctons, explore feasibility of a larger network
• fix portal pages
• implement a hotspot monitoring system
• improve hotspot email notifications
• experiment with alternative auth servers to help decide what our tech roadmap is
• figure out why “Internet connection is down” message doesn't often show up at venues
• build a scraper for torontoartsonline.org events, to include them on our portal pages
• determine the feasibility of a mac-address-based bandwidth accounting system w/greylist & blacklist
• correct a typo in the validation email and account creation web page

Portal page projects:

• see what APIs are available, start implementing!