[156318] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Big Temporary Networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Sep 14 11:53:46 2012
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:53:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <1F2CDA99-7081-4445-A3A2-66387BC16C47@snap-interactive.com>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Barr" <mbarr@snap-interactive.com>
> and as I was working the Hugo's:
>
> On Sep 14, 2012, at 10:14 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Chris Adams" <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
> >
> > I know some of that went on, yes, and certainly if I'm more formally
> > involved, I'll be querying the SMOFlist to see who ran things at the
> > last 5 or so.
> >
> > My bet is that none of them *had* a formal CTO/Ops person full time.
>
> Tech had a person managing the feed to DragonCon from the dedicated
> room w/ the polycomm video conference system, for panels, in addition
> to the actual union operator of the camera & such.
The camera ops had to be union? Hmmm. Ah, Chicago. Yes.
> There was an IT head, but he was responsible for the laptops / staff
> network, printers, etc.
Got it.
> The hotel itself had the conference wireless, instead of it being
> brought in.
Yes, and I'm told by my best friend who did attend (I didn't make it
this year) that the hotel wired/wifi was essentially unusable, every
time he tried. Hence my interest in the issue.
> > My understanding was that Dragon *took its main feed* for the Hugos
> > via Ustream, and the entire room got left standing; no?
>
> Dragon took it's feed for the hugo's through Ustream, as did the
> *overflow* rooms onsite. It was easier to go to the internet & back,
> than to get a direct cable.
Ok, then I was correctly informed; thanks.
Cheers,
-- jra
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