Auguste Community Meeting 1

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Meeting Information

Date 2009-07-03
Time 13:30 - 15:00
Location Radboud University Nijmegen, HG 00.058
Chairman Jan de Muijnck-Hughes
Secretary Bart van Delft

Agenda

  1. Opening
  2. Action Points from previous meeting.
  3. Discussion Points for current meeting.
  4. A.O.C.B (Any Other Competent Business)
  5. Closing

Action Points Previous Meeting

List of action points:

  • Create a website with forum, agenda, mailinglist and wiki
  • Locate the website under the kerckhoffs-domain
  • Organize excursion to Fox-IT together with Erik Poll
  • Find a name for our community

Minutes of the previous meeting (0)

Discussion Points

Group Communication

Proposer Jan de Muijnck-Hughes (and who ever added the Mailing list suggestion to the todo page in the first place.)
Description To improve the community communication through a mailing list and/or have a list of addresses available to members.
Rationale At the moment there seems to be no official accessible list that we can access that has all the Kerckhoff student details in. I think Bart may have a copy but... we need to have a way to facilitate easier to use and more accessible means of group communication.
Notes There is an unofficial mailing list already. You can sign up for it over here: http://gewis.nl/mailman/listinfo/security-master

To give an impression of the past state of affairs, I (Julius) have already been asked by Jan Schut (mastercoordinator at the UT) to forward something to this list, because he had no other way to communicate with "all" the Kerckhoffs students.

Legal Matters

Proposer Jan de Muijnck-Hughes
Description To sort out and finalise the sites legal matters:
  1. License the sites content under the Creative Commons 3.0 License from the Creative Commons Team or a suitable alternative.
  2. Create and compose teh Disclaimer and Privacy Policy Sections.
Rationale By licensing our work and adding the disclaimers and privacy policies we are protecting ourselves legally from any retribution.

Community Charter

Proposer Jan de Muijnck-Hughes
Description To compose a document that explicitly mentions the communities aims, methodologies and organisation.
Rationale Such a document should be able to avoid confusion in the future about A) what the community provides and B) what is expected of community members.

Website Enhancements

Proposer Jan de Muijnck-Hughes
Description To enhance the community websites functionality via properly implemented Calendar and Map applets. This can be achieved using both a Google Calendar and Map and the required Wikimedia extensions to properly integrate them within the site. Another suggesstion is to add an RSS feed for the sites news to allow for people to subscribe to the websites news.
Rationale It has been observed recently that the calendar operates in a WIKI mentality in that no pages are deleted and any changes such as a move in date will only result in a redirect to the new date, with the existing date still in place. With out proper maintenance this could lead to a cluttered calendar full of redirects. Also with the Maps this could lead to better functionality and give people a clearer idea of routes and locations. Inspiration for this came from the OWASP mediawiki based site. And the RSS feed is just a logical extension of a news feed.
Notes Apparently there is a plan by C&CZ to upgrade the underlying mediawiki implementation.

Website Style

Proposer The people who contributed to the Suggestions_website
Description To pick/edit the default themes for the:
  • Website
  • Forum
  • Calendar

so that they look nice.

Rationale Hopefully these changes can increase the usability and visual appearance of the website.
Notes Apparently there is a plan by C&CZ to upgrade the underlying mediawiki implementation.

Induction Day

Proposer Jan de Muijnck-Hughes (added to the discussion points by Bart van Delft)
Description Organize an introduction of some sort for the new Kerckhoffs' students of next year. This does not necessarily have to consist of one single induction day, but could also be extended to informing 3th year Bachelor students on the Computer Security master and so on. More information in this forum thread.
Rationale Many current Kerckhoffs' students have the feeling that they missed such an introduction at their start of the master, and we feel like we should prevent new students from searching in the dark for course information, location, schedules, fellow students etc. etc.
Notes The rumour mill has seen talks by Peter van Rossum and Pieter Hartel about induction days aswell.

Auguste Representatives Internal

Proposer Bart van Delft
Description Assign a representative job to (at least) one student from each university. These persons can both represent the Kerckhoffs students from the their university to Auguste, as represent Auguste to their fellow students.
Rationale To increase communication and organization, it would be helpful to have at least a board of some kind, which moderates all Augustes activities. Note that this is already discussed on the forum.
Notes Please read the forum for more information.

Auguste Representatives External

Proposer Bart van Delft
Description Assign a representative job to (at least) one student from each university. These persons can represent their fellow students to the Kerckhoffs organization / staff. These persons might or might not be the same as in the Auguste Representatives Internal point.
Rationale Once the students have organized under the name of Auguste, it can be used to actually improve the Kerckhoffs Institute. Comments and suggestions can be gathered during Auguste meetings and communicated with the Kerckhoffs staff members. Note that this is already discussed on the forum.
Notes Please read the forum for more information.
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