[156460] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Big Temporary Networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jo Rhett)
Tue Sep 18 16:14:32 2012
From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>
In-Reply-To: <31256570.24866.1347637981269.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:11:40 -0700
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 14, 2012, at 8:53 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>> 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.
>=20
> The camera ops had to be union? Hmmm. Ah, Chicago. Yes.
That has been true everywhere that Worldcon has been for a number of =
years, excluding Japan. Hotel union contracts generally forbid activity =
being done by any non-union people, even if they are the guests.
> 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.
Always is. Those networks are not built for that many devices attaching. =
They never are. But they don't want the competition either. If you NEED =
connectivity at the convention, you must bring your own LTE MIFI and =
take care of yourself. This is simply not solvable in the convention =
hotel contracts level. I've got many SMOF friends and I've been trying =
for years, and it only worked for a small gap of years before hotels =
starting seeing Internet as a profit vector. Unfortunately, the size =
requirements of things the size of Worldcon limit the choices enough =
that this simply can't be a bargaining point.
--=20
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : net philanthropy to improve open source and internet =
projects.
