On Wed, April 18, 2007 8:26 pm, kelsey hudson 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. > >> My experience with hotel wireless is it is: >> >> 1. brain dead and Linux hostile > > ...Which is always fun. It's my goal to make public wifi easy to use and > platform-agnostic. > >> 2. pay-to-play and _very_ expensive > > "whaa? $6/hour? you've gotta be kidding me!" -- free is always a much > better number. > >> 3. spotty coverage, as in "that end of the main lobby" > > I've designed my system with these thoughts in mind -- i've done the > research and gotten the proper antennae and equipment to do it right. > >> Several conventions/shows I've been to had their own wireless in the >> convention area. So the hotels at least tolerate it. > > From what I've seen, most encourage it. That way, the hotel isn't > liable for lusers on their network, or, the liability falls on those who > provide the wireless connection (ie: us). As long as we have the proper > legalese to shuff it off on the user, it shouldn't be too big an issue > for us to do this. > > The main thing will be, of course, working out the logistics with the > hotel engineers. > > -Kelsey
OK, Kplug Steers. We appear to have the equipment; a Kplug coordinator; the offer of assistance from SD Wireless; I'll volunteer to take a day off work and provide some coverage (I wanna go to a presentation, too -- waaaaa!). And we got a lot of prople who are hot to have a party with the Red Hat life forms. Do we have a club go-ahead? Do we have a budget? Do we have a Red Hat contact point (calling Dave Cook)? Go-NoGo decision time, guys. I am just a lowly member here. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
