Bureaucracy

HOW TO become a registered user of AIRWiki

Registered users of AIRWiki can access the private layer of the wiki (in addition to the public layer). More importantly, they can modify AIRWiki pages of both the public and the private layer. To learn what a layer is in the context of AIRWiki, see Main Page#How do I access the contents of this wiki?.

The possibility to become a registered user is restricted to the people who work in the AIRLab, i.e. teachers, researchers and students.

To become a registered user, you must request a user account for the AIRWiki. To do that, you can ask your Advisor or send an email containing your name, the name of your Advisor and the name of your project to either migliore (at) elet (dot) polimi (dot) it or eynard (at) elet (dot) polimi (dot) it.

If you are a student beginning her/his work within the AIRLab, please note that you must be a registered user before you can even enter the Lab! You must also be aware that anything you put into the private layer of AIRWiki will be published on the internet and visible by all the world. So remember to be extremely careful while editing a page, unless you clicked the "discussion" tab on top and are therefore working in the private layer of the AIRWiki. Remember that you are personally responsible (even in penal terms, for example if you publish copyrighted material) for what you publish in the public layer; as every editing operation on the AIRWiki is logged, it's always possible to see who did what.

As a rule of thumb, while editing a Discussion page (i.e. a private one) on top of the screen must be written "Editing Talk:NameOfThePage". If the prefix "Talk:" is missing, you are editing the public layer instead, and you better know what you are doing :-) Anything you write in a "Talk:" page, i.e. anything you write after clicking the "discussion" tab on the screen, can instead be seen only by you and the other AIRWiki registered users.

HOW TO get the authorization to access the Lab

Note: you cannot access the AIRLab without being authorized, and you can't let anyone who is not authorized into the AIRLab (unless you have asked an Advisor for that).

In order to obtain access to any AIRLab site (see The Labs), you need to follow these steps. From their description it seems a lot of work, but it's not: just read the following instructions before starting (well, this should be a general rule...).

• First of all, it is absolutely necessary that you carefully read the Safety norms and the Rules for AIRLab Users. These documents are written in Italian: if you aren't able to read them, ask the Advisor responsible for your Project to translate for you the parts concerning your work.

• You must then get a registered user account (if you haven't got one yet). See Bureaucracy#HOW TO become a registered user of AIRWiki for details.

• As soon as you have an AIRWiki account, you must fill in your user page with your personal data. To do that, log in to the AIRWiki (just use the link on top right of the Main Page), then click on the "people" link in the "navigation" tab on the left to go to the Special:Listusers page. There you will find a list of user pages: look for your own (yes, there it is!). Click on the link and fill in the page. The data you are required to put in are: first name, surname, "numero di matricola", name of the Teacher(s) you work with, link to the AIRWiki pages of the project(s) you are working on (see the following for this), and your photo. You can copy the layout of other user pages (some of them include a fine table for all the data) if you prefer: just go to the 'edit' tab of those pages and copy all that you need into the 'edit' tab of your page (I said COPY, not CUT: be careful not to alter other people's pages).

• Subsequently, you must set up an AIRWiki page for the Project you are about to start working on (if someone else didn't already do that: check for that on the Projects page). Don't worry, it's very easy: just follow the instructions you find here: Projects#HOWTO_add_a_new_project_to_the_AIRWiki. When you have done that, remember to go back to your user page and put there a link to the page of your Project.

• Then, you have to fill in the Access Registration Form, specifying which AIRLab sites (see The Labs) you need to enter. Sign it and have the Teacher responsible for your Project sign it. Note that by signing the form you declare that you have read the document "Safety norms for AIRLab users" (so be sure to ACTUALLY HAVE READ IT!).

• Once the form is signed by you and your Teacher, it has to be verified and signed by professor Bonarini, head of the AIRLab. This step has been made mandatory to check that people actually fill in their AIRWiki pages, as students tended to "forget" that :-( . Send an e-mail at bonarini (at) elet (dot) polimi (dot) it with "access to AIRLab" as subject to ask him when you can go to his office for the signature.

• Now the Access Registration Form have to be signed by the head of the Informatics Section of the DEI. Just leave the form to the Secretaries on the first floor of the Department of Electronics and Information, and come back in a day or two (they will tell you exactly when).

• Finally, leave the Access Registration Form and your student's ID card to Mrs. Ivanov (DEI, 3rd floor). In this way you will be registered as an authorized AIRLab user, and your ID card will get the ability to open the door of the AIRLab sites you requested. This step usually requires about a week.

* * * * * You are now allowed to access the AIRLab!! * * * * *

HOW TO connect your laptop to the Internet

If you own a laptop computer, you can request an authorization to connect it to the (wired) LAN of the Department of Electronics and Information (DEI). This allows connecting to all the online resources of the DEI and to the internet. You will need to fill in this form, have it signed by the Teacher responsible for your Project, and return it to the network administrators' office (DEI, 1st floor, Sardi or Busnelli). Note that you will have to specify the MAC address of your network interface card: instructions about how to get it are given on the form.

NOTE: if you often work in AIRLab/Lambrate, you can also get an account to use the Linux PCs available there; this will give you a home directory (accessible from any of those PCs) and internet access. This is completely separate from access to DEI's LAN: you can require such an account by writing an e-mail to prof. Matteucci <matteucci (at) elet (dot) polimi (dot) it>.