Constitution

Who we are (and are not), and how we operate

• Cape Town Wireless User Group is not a club or official organisation, but a research network.
• Most decisions are made by general consensus at group meetings, and by committee members.
• Anyone is able to attend these meetings, regardless of whether they are active on the Cape Town Wireless User Group network.
• The group has a committee of Chairman, vice-Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer that preside over the regular meetings, generally held as indicated via the mailing list and shown on the website.
• Equipment donated to the group 'belongs' to the group (not any individual) except if otherwise stated by the committee members.
• Private Node operators who own their equipment are bound to act according to the Code-of-Conduct outlined here.

Network Access

There is one class of membership to the Cape Town Wireless User Group. All users are equal (==), meaning no user will have traffic priority over another user. This class is called:

Wugger

• Wuggers will have full access to the network without any bandwidth restrictions except where necessary for the health of the network or network segment.
• Wuggers can vote at the group's meetings, these include any resolution that affects the organisational or financial aspects of the group in any form.
• A Wugger is connected to the network and utilising what the network has to offer.
• Wuggers may donate money to further assist in growing and expanding the wireless network.

Donations may be used to fund new CTWUG equipment, constructing/erecting CTWUG high sites as well as maintenance on current CTWUG owned high sites.

Donations to further the network are open to all

Behaviors and Responsibilities

Be kind to the backbone: The increased bandwidth (speed) offered by the current wireless technology can quickly be eroded if users aren't considerate of others.

To this end

• If you are going to download files via Bittorrent/FTP/DC/gnucleus/kazaa or other download applications from someone else on the network, please consider other wuggers if the total transfer is going to take more than a few minutes.
• P2p and any other bandwidth hogging services will be vulnerable to traffic shaping during gaming hours (19:00 – 00:00). In the event of traffic prioritising on high sites, p2p and other bandwidth hogging protocols will be subjected to the lowest priority there is available, and gaming subjected to the highest.
• Where availability and lack of obstacles permit, point your antenna towards a node in your neighborhood in preference to the major high sites. This assists traffic management on the network. The major high sites will quickly become saturated if everyone aims his/her antenna in that direction.

If you point to a local node, only traffic that needs to be sent to the rest of the network will go through backbone links.

• No wugger will have the privilege of connecting to a backbone link; backbone links are there to interconnect high sites only.