Team introduction: NMS / Zabbix!

Next team: Network Management System / Zabbix!

From left: Tuomas, Joni, Lassi and Olli (Jerry is absent)

As the name of the team suggests - this team worked with Zabbix. Their responsibility was to configure and test Zabbix. There are quite many things you can monitor with Zabbix, but most important ones for us are the switches and how they are functioning.

Olli Isomäki, Tuomas Jeppesen and Jerry Aakala (team leader) are all fourth year students majoring in telecommunications. Their main inspiration for project is to get ECTS and like Jerry said you learn so much more in the project than in school. 

Lassi Hirvonen and Joni Tammilehto presents the second year students in this group. They are also majoring in telecommunications and their motivation comes from getting experience. Here are the funny facts from the team:

Olli: Pään seinään hakkaaminen kuluttaa 150 kaloria tunnissa. (Hitting your head in the wall burns 150 calories per hour)
Tuomas: Kisojen laiskin äijä (Laziest dude in the competition.)
Jerry: 1:1 isoja kuppeja = paras kahvi (1:1 big cups = the best coffee)
Lassi: JavaScript is love. JavaScript is life.
Joni: KOUVOLA!

Team introduction: Cables for tables!

And third one: Team Cables!

From left: Ville, Joni, Tommi, Jirko, Jani, Kristiina, Heikki and Milla

Their job was to plan cable paths and implement it. They were brilliant - making bundle of correct length cables wrapped ready for installation day. It meant super easy installation and no hurry at all. The team also helped other teams with their tasks whenever they had time. 

This team has two team leaders. Kristiina Issakainen and Milla Roininen shares the responsibility. Here are their personal introductions:

Kristiina Issakainen
She is a third year telecommunications student. She says this is the most interesting project in school which is the reason she chose to participate. Fun fact: Teacher gave me new name Kissakainen (kissa = cat)

Milla Roininen
Milla is third year telecommunications student. She thinks Lahti2017 is the most interesting and biggest event in Lahti right now. Fun fact about her is that food is the most important thing in her life.

Tommi Lehtinen
He is a second year student, majoring in data networks (basically same as telecommunications). He is taking part in this project because these kinds of opportunities don't come around that often. Fun fact about him is that he is amazing in everything he does. 

Joni Niemi
He is second year student majoring also in telecommunications. He is all about learning and tells us he is the best and the most modest.

Jani Kerkkänen
He is a fourth year telecommunications student. His motivation in this project is ECTS. He is no fun guy, so there isn't any fun fact about him.

Ville Larjava
He is a fourth year telecommunications student. He thinks this project is interesting and he might learn something from it. That drives him to do his best. Fun fact: Jag är från Åbo, heheheh (I am from Turku, hehehe)

Heikki Lohtander
Heikki is third year student, majoring in telecommunications. He is participating in the project because he loves Lahti. Fun fact: "It funny because it's true."

Jirko Tuomaala
Jirko is third year telecommunications student. He is taking part in this project because it is interesting and nice to be a part of the big local event. He doesn't consider himself as a collector but he still owns hundreds of vinyl records and six guitars.

//Mira

Team introduction: Switches for tables

Next in line: Team Switches!
This five person group has been responsible for everything that has something to do with switches. They have configured all of the table switches, planned how they are located in the tables and of course implemented the plans.

From left: Miko, Ivan, Artur, Miika, Olli and Atte

Their team leader is Miika who has made sure everything is done. It seems everything has gone quite smoothly! Here their personal introductions:

Miika Äijälä
He is a 4th year student, majoring in telecommunications.
Main reason to participate on this project is simple: it is the best project Lahti UAS is offering. And of course, the ECTS points. During the event there will be also Rölli Winterland which is absolute amazing and Miika will surely visit it.
Fun fact about him: Laiskiainen on mun toteemieläin (Sloth is my totem animal)

Miko Kokko
He is 3rd year student who is here because it is part of the mandatory studies, but it is also really interesting.
Fun fact about him: :^)

Artur Malinin
He is 2nd year student, majoring also in telecommunications. For him this project is part of the course plan and it is interesting to take part.
Fun fact: Joutsenet näyttävät joskus kurjilta.  (Sometimes swans look terrible.)

Atte Lempelto
He is 2nd year student and majoring in telecommunications. What's in for him? Getting the credits and participating in fascinating project. Funny fact about Atte is that he is from Mikkeli.

Ivan Roots
He is 2nd year student and majoring in telecommunications. His drive in this project is to get hands-on experience and of course the ECTS points.
Fun fact: Kerran olin etsimässä Narniaa kaapista, mutta löysin vaan iskän konjakkipullon. (Once I tried to find Narnia in the closet but instead I just found my father's cognac bottle.)

Olli Valkama
He is also 2nd year student and majoring in telecommunications. The project is part of Olli's studies but it also gives him valuable work experience/reference. Not that many people can say they have built network for this big event.
Fun fact: Lakimies tietää kaiken laista. (The lawyer knows everything about law / The lawyer knows every kind of things.)

//Mira

Team introduction: Wifi AP

Let me introduce you our amazing teams. You will be seeing us around the area, but mainly in the media centers. First in the line is Team Wifi AP!

These guys are responsible for planning, configuration and installation of every wireless access point. When you are using wlan in media centers - remember to thank them. Without them there wouldn't be - if I calculated correctly - 29 access points around! 

Their team leader (or as they call it - headmaster) is Juuso Karikorpi (most right in the picture). All of the guys have same reason to work - they are eager to learn. They are second year students, all specializing in telecommunications. But here is some funny facts about them (ordered from right to left)!

Juuso Karikorpi: Nostan enemmän penkist ku sä pankist (I bench more than you withdraw from the bank)

Antti Hutri: Oon pelannut wowia 38400 tuntia. (I have played WoW 38400 hours.)

Markus Vainio: Elän energiajuomalla ja tietoröökillä. ( I use energy drinks and information cigarettes as my fuel.)

Konsta Rautakorpi: Mun pitäis dieettaa. (I should diet.)
Ilkka Patajoki: Alkoholismin ja hauskuuden raja on häilyvä. (The line between alcoholism and fun is drawn in water.)

Testing soon!

We have iWeek* going on this week which meant most of the students were taking part of lectures and workshops. It took a toll of students available for today's tasks. Luckily we still managed to do quite much!

We are almost ready with all the configurations, so today we started moving everything to competition area. All of the switches, power plugs, cables, wlan access points and basically everything else were carried in the Main Media Center and Sub Media Center. Now it is time to test them in real life! 

Our systems will be tested in Finlandia Hiihto in the beginning of February. Exciting! 

//Mira

*iWeek program is open for all IT students and the programme is included in the regular program of the specific study groups. 

Guest lectures from partner institutions give lectures and presentations on the following topics:

• GAMING
• VIRTUALIZATION & CLOUD SERVICES
• INTERACTIVE WEB
• INTERNET OF THINGS
• CURIOUS CREATIVES

Program consists of lectures, workshops, networking. You will also learn about the student exchange possibilities in our partner institutions. 

Life is fluid.

Everything changes extremely fast. I should have gotten use to it, but it still sometimes surprises me. We are part of such a big organization. It means that slight change somewhere might mean bigger change for us. It has been interesting to work without exact timetable. It will train all of us for real work, since what I have seen - new things can come up out of nowhere. Life and work is like liquid and you need to be flexible to keep up.

What have changed lately? Well, we got information about mandatory training for all the volunteers. It was a surprise and with such a late notice some have problems to fit it in their schedule. Luckily, we got permission to have few representatives who go for training and then next week shares the info with rest. I am gonna one of the representatives.

And once again - we changed the whole on-call shift system. This time it should be the final version. We will have two persons in Main Media Center (MMC) and two in Sub Media Center (SMC). Second year students will be taking care of that. Third and fourth year students will be available as a technical support and there will always be three of them in the area. Sounds fair, right?

33 days to go!

//Mira

Introducing: New teams

This is getting exciting! Whole autumn we were getting known to all systems and software, preparing ourselves for real work and now it is the time to actually implement all of it.

We have five main teams:

1. Wifi Access Points
2. Network Monitoring System
3. LAN services
4. Cable sets for tables
5. Switches for tables

Well, you can guess the theme of every team. It is kinda obvious. The teams are actually only for building days. It makes sure that every task will be done. Each team have at least five members, even though most have more. Since we have two media centers, Main Media Center and Sub Media Center, every group will eventually split in two. 

Teams have been chosen and everyone is working so hard!

//Mira

ps. I have been away, so it will be a bliss to see everyone next week. Can't wait!