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By Mary Bull, eduroam Technical Service Manager
The eduroam Advisory Committee (eAC) has convened a working group to update the Best Practices Guide for eduroam-US. Derek Eiler, eAC chair and principal systems engineer for the Nevada System of Higher Education, is leading the group, which includes representatives from Federated Solutions, Pier Group, Springfield College, the University of Amherst, the University of North Carolina Greensboro, and the University of Washington.
Documenting Best Practices
The Best Practices Guide for eduroam-US offers recommendations and advice on deployment of eduroam wireless access within the research and education community, including higher education and community colleges, K-12, museums, and libraries. The guide examines tools and strategies for deploying and running eduroam. What’s the goal? Encouraging the eduroam community to build and operate the service in a way that is as interoperable, scalable, and sustainable as possible while still allowing for the differences in individual environments.
To best support this goal, the eduroam Best Practices Update Working Group will collect feedback from community members about the aspects of the service they find challenging as well as their experiences with the various tools that staff can use to operate eduroam. Your responses to the group’s survey will help identify areas of the current eduroam Best Practices Guide that need to be expanded or adjusted to provide greater value to the community.
Understanding the Survey
Your feedback is important to us. The survey should take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete (less for those only operating hotspots rather than managing users who roam). An anonymized summary of the results will be shared with the community in March, so please ensure that you make time to respond by February 28. The working group will let the community know when the results are available. Thank you in advance for providing your input to make the Best Practices Guide better for everyone.
About the eduroam-US Advisory Committee
To facilitate stronger and more responsive engagement with the eduroam community, Internet2 sought out knowledgeable, motivated volunteers to form the eduroam-US Advisory Committee. The eduroam-US Advisory Committee (“eAC”) is an advisory body to the InCommon Steering Committee. Its role is to help formulate strategies and practices for US and global research and education roaming networks, report any findings, and make recommendations to the InCommon Steering Committee and Internet2. The eAC meets regularly and establishes working groups on specific subjects as needed. You can view the committee’s charter, learn more about its mission, and view publicly available meeting minutes on its wiki page.