[isf-wifidog] NYCwireless and Wi-Fi Thank You integration

[Dana Spiegel]

Hello All,

Benoit, Michael and some of the rest of the Ile Sans Fil team were in 
NYC a month or two ago, and we spoke about creating a mechansim for the 
WifiDog server to communicate with the NYCwireless project 
www.wifithankyou.com.

I'd like to put this plan out to the community, and get feedback, so 
that we can add functionality to Wi-Fi Thank You to let hotspots 
automatically be created by wifidog.

Wi-Fi Thank You has a way to register Hotspots currently, and has user 
management as well. What I was thinking was basically requiring a "user" 
for wifidog instances (like an ilesansfil user), and then have wifidog 
talk SOAP or XMLRPC to Wi-Fi Thank You to "register" a hotspot when a 
hotspot is registered on the wifidog site. Then, an ID is generated for 
the hotspot, and wifidog can always lookup info (RSS feeds, create a 
thank you for a specific site) using that ID. The ID can be generated by 
Wi-Fi Thank You (it already has this functionality), or can be passed in 
via the XML-RPC/SOAP hotspot registration call by wifidog. This will 
allow Wi-Fi Thank You to be integrated into wifidog hotspot captive 
portal pages automatically (RSS, create thank you links, # of thank yous 
badges).

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Dana Spiegel
Executive Director
NYCwireless
dana at nycwireless.net
www.nycwireless.net
+1 917 402 0422