On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Donald Eastlake <d3e...@gmail.com> wrote: > The 2015 WorldCon site selection is contested. There is a group > seeking selection for the Disney Coronado Spring Resort in Florida but > also competing groups seeking Spokane, Washington, and Helsinki, > Finland.
Finland..we have one (1/2 hobbyist) group here that does Big Event Networking: NetCrew. They build the network needed for The Assembly series of events every year. (http://www.assembly.org) Typical event spec: 1-2*10G uplink, appr. 3000 100-1000baseT connections, WLAN, NOC with cool tracking tools to pinpoint a system behaving badly on a BIG switch network, switch configuration bulders etc. They have most of the distribution gear on store and rent out equipment (especially switch gear) between events. Surprise surprise, the core group of the team consists of networking veterans with 10-15+ year experience on the field. Netcrew is a cool way of being able to build some funky designs and test stuff on a very hostile environment compared to their $dayjob. --Kauto FICORA/CERT-FI (kauto.huo...@ficora.fi) -- Kauto Huopio - ka...@huopio.fi
