[CODE4LIB] FEEDBACK REQUESTED: Planning a Fedora User Group Meeting in Karlsruhe
Aug. 4, 2014 Read it online: http://bit.ly/1tn8AJk Hello, The Fedora community is gauging interest in hosting a full-day Fedora User Group meeting in Karlsruhe, Germany on September 19, 2014, immediately following the PASIG conference (September 16-18). All users of Fedora, the open source, flexible and extensible digital repository platform, including anyone thinking about adopting Fedora, are encouraged to plan on attending. The meeting will be held at FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, and registration will be free. This will be an informal event that will give Fedora community members an opportunity to meet each other in person, discuss local projects and use cases, and find potential collaborators. Attendees are encouraged to give short (5 minutes) or long (15-20 minutes) project updates. Members of DuraSpace and the Fedora Steering Group will also be present to provide an update on the latest Fedora 4 developments and discuss opportunities for engagement with the project. Please indicate your interest in attending the Fedora User Group meeting in Karlsruhe by contacting David Wilcox dwil...@fedora-commons.org with a +1 (and any additional comments you may have). When it is clear there is sufficient interest in the event, we will send out additional details and registration information. Thank you!
[CODE4LIB] Bandwidth control
A quick and dirty search of the list archives turned up this topic from 5 years ago. I am wondering what libraries (especially those with limited resources) are doing today to control or moderate bandwidth, e.g., where viewing video sites uses up excessive amounts of bandwidth? Thanks for any help, Carol Carol Bean beanwo...@gmail.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] Bandwidth control
I don¹t know about libraries, but there are some technical solutions to problems like these. One approach to reducing bandwidth may be bandwidth throttling in the router settings for the router the library uses. This limits the download/upload rates for a client or clients and may limit high resolution video viewing because the connection then could be set to throttle at a speed too slow to view some or all high-resolution streaming versions of videos in real time. This may also make it so that one user isn¹t hogging and saturating the internet connection and slowing the network for all other users. I've seen this kind of throttling in hotels that supply a free low speed connection that is good enough for checking email and browsing the web, but not fast enough for streaming video (they then may allow it if you pay an extra fee). There may also be ways to set daily bandwidth quotas for each client in the router settings for some routers. Many consumer routers do not have these settings, but more expensive professional-level routers or alternative firmwares for consumer routers might have the settings. For example, DD-WRT or Tomato are custom firmwares for some routers that may allow you to configure settings like this if someone has released something for your specific brand/model of router. For example a Tomato firmware by shibby has settings like this http://tomato.groov.pl/wp-content/gallery/screenshots/bwlimiter.png . I don¹t know if that helps or is what you¹re looking for. On 8/4/14, 7:20 AM, Carol Bean beanwo...@gmail.com wrote: A quick and dirty search of the list archives turned up this topic from 5 years ago. I am wondering what libraries (especially those with limited resources) are doing today to control or moderate bandwidth, e.g., where viewing video sites uses up excessive amounts of bandwidth? Thanks for any help, Carol Carol Bean beanwo...@gmail.com
[CODE4LIB] AMIA + DLF Cross-Pollinator Travel Awards for developers
Association of Moving Image Archivistshttp://www.amianet.org/ and DLF are pleased to support two travel grants for the AMIA Conference in Savannah, GA, October 8-11, 2014. The goal of the AMIA + DLF Travel Awards is to bring cross-pollinators—developers and software engineers who can provide unique perspectives to moving image and sound archivist’s work with digital materials, and share a vision of the library world from their perspective—to the conference. Eligibility The purpose of these grants is to extend the opportunity to attend the Association of Moving Image Archivists Conferencehttp://www.amiaconference.com/ to two software development professionals. The applicants should be seeking more exposure to trends in stewarding audiovisual collections, who: * Would not typically attend the conference, but can envision and articulate a connection with their work * See great value in building a dynamic and diverse peer network * Are interested in participating in the AMIA/DLF Hack Dayhttp://wiki.curatecamp.org/index.php/Association_of_Moving_Image_Archivists_%26_Digital_Library_Federation_Hack_Day_2014 on October 8 The Award Two awards of up to $1,250 each to go towards the travel, board, and lodging expenses of attending the AMIA conference. Additionally, the awardees will each receive a complimentary full registration to the AMIA conference ($450). Subsequent to the conference and Hack Day, recipients will be required to write a blog post about their experience, to be published by DLF. Application Applicants will be required to supply contact information and a résumé, as well as a statement about how attending the Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference will expand your professional horizons, and what skills or ideas you could bring to the Hack Day. Please send an email with the subject “AMIA Cross-Pollinator: [Name]” to lkwasigr...@clir.orgmailto:lkwasigr...@clir.org, including ONE attachment with the required materials. The winning applicants must be able to travel to Savannah, October 8-11. Deadline Applications are due by August 12, 2014, 4 pm EDT. Winners will be announced in late August. View the announcement: http://www.diglib.org/archives/6240/ Louisa Kwasigroch Senior Program Associate - Digital Library Federation Council on Library and Information Resources lkwasigr...@clir.orgmailto:lkwasigr...@clir.org | 202-939-4758 www.diglib.org | www.clir.orghttp://www.clir.org/ 2014 DLF Forumhttp://www.diglib.org/forums/2014forum/, Atlanta, October 27-29 Registrationhttp://www.diglib.org/forums/2014forum/registration/
Re: [CODE4LIB] Bandwidth control
Thanks, Scott. I appreciate the details. I hadn't thought of investigating firmware hacks. I have heard Cisco routers are being used to manage bandwidth, and are, as expected, a pricey solution. Carol On Aug 4, 2014, at 7:34 PM, Scott Fisher wrote: I don¹t know about libraries, but there are some technical solutions to problems like these. One approach to reducing bandwidth may be bandwidth throttling in the router settings for the router the library uses. This limits the download/upload rates for a client or clients and may limit high resolution video viewing because the connection then could be set to throttle at a speed too slow to view some or all high-resolution streaming versions of videos in real time. This may also make it so that one user isn¹t hogging and saturating the internet connection and slowing the network for all other users. I've seen this kind of throttling in hotels that supply a free low speed connection that is good enough for checking email and browsing the web, but not fast enough for streaming video (they then may allow it if you pay an extra fee). There may also be ways to set daily bandwidth quotas for each client in the router settings for some routers. Many consumer routers do not have these settings, but more expensive professional-level routers or alternative firmwares for consumer routers might have the settings. For example, DD-WRT or Tomato are custom firmwares for some routers that may allow you to configure settings like this if someone has released something for your specific brand/model of router. For example a Tomato firmware by shibby has settings like this http://tomato.groov.pl/wp-content/gallery/screenshots/bwlimiter.png . I don¹t know if that helps or is what you¹re looking for. On 8/4/14, 7:20 AM, Carol Bean beanwo...@gmail.com wrote: A quick and dirty search of the list archives turned up this topic from 5 years ago. I am wondering what libraries (especially those with limited resources) are doing today to control or moderate bandwidth, e.g., where viewing video sites uses up excessive amounts of bandwidth? Thanks for any help, Carol Carol Bean beanwo...@gmail.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] Bandwidth control
Like most things, if you want to do this, you probably can do it yourself http://web.opalsoft.net/qos/default.php ; and then Cisco, who also happen to make really big switches, get additional points for abstracting away some low-level decisions. Traffic-shaping is a lively commercial industry at this time, not least because it dovetails with deep-packet inspection in certain use cases like, how do I retain my hold on power in Egypt or Tunisia. I don’t mean to be a bummer though. -- Al Matthews Software Developer, Digital Services Unit Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library email: amatth...@auctr.edu; office: 1 404 978 2057 On 8/4/14, 4:07 PM, Carol Bean beanwo...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Scott. I appreciate the details. I hadn't thought of investigating firmware hacks. I have heard Cisco routers are being used to manage bandwidth, and are, as expected, a pricey solution. Carol On Aug 4, 2014, at 7:34 PM, Scott Fisher wrote: I don¹t know about libraries, but there are some technical solutions to problems like these. One approach to reducing bandwidth may be bandwidth throttling in the router settings for the router the library uses. This limits the download/upload rates for a client or clients and may limit high resolution video viewing because the connection then could be set to throttle at a speed too slow to view some or all high-resolution streaming versions of videos in real time. This may also make it so that one user isn¹t hogging and saturating the internet connection and slowing the network for all other users. I've seen this kind of throttling in hotels that supply a free low speed connection that is good enough for checking email and browsing the web, but not fast enough for streaming video (they then may allow it if you pay an extra fee). There may also be ways to set daily bandwidth quotas for each client in the router settings for some routers. Many consumer routers do not have these settings, but more expensive professional-level routers or alternative firmwares for consumer routers might have the settings. For example, DD-WRT or Tomato are custom firmwares for some routers that may allow you to configure settings like this if someone has released something for your specific brand/model of router. For example a Tomato firmware by shibby has settings like this http://tomato.groov.pl/wp-content/gallery/screenshots/bwlimiter.png . I don¹t know if that helps or is what you¹re looking for. On 8/4/14, 7:20 AM, Carol Bean beanwo...@gmail.com wrote: A quick and dirty search of the list archives turned up this topic from 5 years ago. I am wondering what libraries (especially those with limited resources) are doing today to control or moderate bandwidth, e.g., where viewing video sites uses up excessive amounts of bandwidth? Thanks for any help, Carol Carol Bean beanwo...@gmail.com ** The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential. They are intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager or the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to anyone or make copies. ** IronMail scanned this email for viruses, vandals and malicious content. ** **
Re: [CODE4LIB] Bandwidth control
Thanks for the link. I probably could do it myself if I shook the cobwebs off that part of my brain. :) Thanks, Carol On Aug 4, 2014, at 10:23 PM, Al Matthews wrote: Like most things, if you want to do this, you probably can do it yourself http://web.opalsoft.net/qos/default.php ; and then Cisco, who also happen to make really big switches, get additional points for abstracting away some low-level decisions. Traffic-shaping is a lively commercial industry at this time, not least because it dovetails with deep-packet inspection in certain use cases like, how do I retain my hold on power in Egypt or Tunisia. I don’t mean to be a bummer though. -- Al Matthews Software Developer, Digital Services Unit Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library email: amatth...@auctr.edu; office: 1 404 978 2057 On 8/4/14, 4:07 PM, Carol Bean beanwo...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Scott. I appreciate the details. I hadn't thought of investigating firmware hacks. I have heard Cisco routers are being used to manage bandwidth, and are, as expected, a pricey solution. Carol On Aug 4, 2014, at 7:34 PM, Scott Fisher wrote: I don¹t know about libraries, but there are some technical solutions to problems like these. One approach to reducing bandwidth may be bandwidth throttling in the router settings for the router the library uses. This limits the download/upload rates for a client or clients and may limit high resolution video viewing because the connection then could be set to throttle at a speed too slow to view some or all high-resolution streaming versions of videos in real time. This may also make it so that one user isn¹t hogging and saturating the internet connection and slowing the network for all other users. I've seen this kind of throttling in hotels that supply a free low speed connection that is good enough for checking email and browsing the web, but not fast enough for streaming video (they then may allow it if you pay an extra fee). There may also be ways to set daily bandwidth quotas for each client in the router settings for some routers. Many consumer routers do not have these settings, but more expensive professional-level routers or alternative firmwares for consumer routers might have the settings. For example, DD-WRT or Tomato are custom firmwares for some routers that may allow you to configure settings like this if someone has released something for your specific brand/model of router. For example a Tomato firmware by shibby has settings like this http://tomato.groov.pl/wp-content/gallery/screenshots/bwlimiter.png . I don¹t know if that helps or is what you¹re looking for. On 8/4/14, 7:20 AM, Carol Bean beanwo...@gmail.com wrote: A quick and dirty search of the list archives turned up this topic from 5 years ago. I am wondering what libraries (especially those with limited resources) are doing today to control or moderate bandwidth, e.g., where viewing video sites uses up excessive amounts of bandwidth? Thanks for any help, Carol Carol Bean beanwo...@gmail.com ** The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential. They are intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager or the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to anyone or make copies. ** IronMail scanned this email for viruses, vandals and malicious content. ** **
