[286] in Resnet-Forum
Re: ResNet originating from students
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Peters)
Thu Jun 2 04:44:38 1994
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 10:08 GMT+1
From: Peter Peters <PETERSP@UTWENTE.NL>
To: GUTEST7@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be
Cc: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
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> Hello resnet-folks,
>
> I have been reading the proceedings and I have been wondering: it
> seems to me than in all the cases discussed here, the initiative for
> establishing a Residential Hall network is coming from the
> Academic Government. In our case, we (= a group of students of
> the Catholic University of Leuven) are working on creating such
> a network ourselves and are trying to push the University in letting
> us hook up to their backbone network.
At our university there were and are some initiatives. Even yesterday
we had a student wishing to talk about some netwerk he was planning.
The main problem here is the size of the networks. Most
studentnetworks span only one floor or one building. There is only one
network operated by students that spans a couple of buildings. They
are also good organized (because that is the main problem with that
kind of networks; students leave...) and we are cooperating with them.
The wanted to help form the studentcounseling group and we accepted
that gladly. They know students best and they are willing to work hard
for all students.
>
> Does someone know of any other such initiatives ? Any help
> or arguments we could use towards convincing the university
> administrations that ResHall-nets are a *good thing* for
> the University, is also very welcome.
One major argument is that soon other universities will start
providing all kinds of network related stuff for there student. The
university with the best network (besides all education reasons) will
get the most students. A good point when there will be less and less
people to fill the classes.
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