I used to work with one of the guys who set up the core BM on-site network infrastructure last year. It's a pretty full featured metro area network in a box supporting public safety VoIP and other things. He spent something like 6 weeks on playa with the build team...
As an ISP there might not be a whole lot of value (other than the money for a couple months high capacity PTP link) from setting up network service to BM, since they have a really comprehensive prohibition on company names, company logos, advertising, sponsorship, etc. It's part of the whole ethos of the place. from the bm website: "*Decommodification* In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience." I mean, that at first glance sounds really pretentious. But there's dozens of other festival type things every year that have corporate sponsorship/banner/food vending and money involved. Companies that want to get their name out can work with those. BM is at least, I think, *trying* to have a festival with zero corporate logos or sponsorship anywhere. To the extent that people who rent box trucks have to use painters tape and plastic to cover over the logo of the truck rental company on the side temporarily. On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Bruce Robertson <br...@pooh.com> wrote: > Sadly, I never got around to doing that when I owed Great Basin Internet. > Unfortunately when I explored the possibility, I got a distinctly > unwelcoming reception from the BM staff. They never explained why, and it > kinda left a bad taste. That said, I've been to and enjoyed BM. And I'd > sort of like to NOT have Internet access out there, if you know what I mean. > > > On 5/1/17 3:34 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: > >> On 5/1/17 15:31, Eric Kuhnke wrote: >> >>> I know I saw this last year, but I've forgotten the name... Who is the >>> WISP with the hilltop/mountaintop POP near Gerlach that does the >>> upstream connectivity for Burning Man every year? >>> >> >> >> High Desert Internet. They are also one of the few enlightened peering >> participants in the area. >> >> ~Seth >> >> >> !DSPAM:2,5907b80d77816752614723! >> >> >> >
