Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On 4/18/07, Gus Wirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Lan Barnes wrote:
> On Wed, April 18, 2007 2:09 pm, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
>> Lan Barnes wrote:
>>> We could always volunteer to administer wireless in the convention
area
>>> for free to get a few generic passes. They could only say no, worst
>>> case.
>>
> But someone needs to contact Red Hat. And Steering needs to make a
> decision and come up with a plan. Remember, I'm a grunt ... not even a
> Kplug officer.
>
> Oh, and even if SD Wireless agrees to help, as the Linux group, Kplug
> should have a presence, dontcha think? Man the help desk and all that?
>
> Hey Drew, Michael. The subject is us volunteering to provide convention
> area wireless for the Red Hat Summit here is San Diego, May 9 - 11, in
> return for some passes.
>
The Sheraton Hotel already provides wireless for guests and convention
goers. See:
http://www.starwoodhotels.com/sheraton/property/features/attraction_detail.html?propertyID=127&attractionId=1000955241
Warning: that link is really long and may wrap.
Re-read this link from the kplug list a few weeks ago, on the pitfalls
of hotel-supplied wireless for conventions.
< http://www.tummy.com/Community/Articles/pycon2007-network/ >
I was at the O'Reilly E-Tech conference a couple weeks ago held at the
Hyatt Regency downtown. They had over 1000 attendees and I observed over
half of them working on their laptops at any given time. None of them
seemed to be having problems. Of course, I can't confirm that they were
all connected via wireless, but of the ones in close proximity I could
tell they were (e.g. e-mail, web browsing).
So I guess the lesson here is YMMV.
Gus
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