As someone from the other side of the country (Sydney) it was great to see the WAMUG meeting this way. I personally would love to see all Mac User Groups do something similar. Is there some way to find out more about the iLecture System and the steps taken to get the meeting online?
It would be great if Macquarie Uni (which also has an iLecture system) could be convinced to host local Mac User Group meetings also. I currently run a number of online Mac User Groups but would love to hold live meetings and post them online as WAMUG has done. A number of other MUG's already hold meetings at Universities, colleges etc and once more people get onto broadband, technologies like this are sure to take off. I've recently brought my first Xserve along with some drive modules to take it to just over a Terabyte of storage. I've also purchased a Xserve Raid with around 1.2 Terabytes, a number of empty hard disk modules (which I'll be adding disks to), PCI Fibre Card and a 25RU Rack. Unfortunately everything is still packed up, until I can finish pouring a slab (it is formed up) to set it up on under the house. Currently I just use a couple of G4 Desktops as servers out of my bedroom. I realise I could never compete with the resources of a university but at least the new system should be a great start. Perhaps I may be able to do something similar to the iLecture system using QuickTime Streaming Server. I even run Lasso so perhaps I could create a front end system like iLecture as well. Any thoughts on considerations involved with such a project would be appreciated. Somehow though I think it may require at least another Xserve if I want to also serve sites, databases and possibly set up Netbooting (for a dozen or so local machines) for my home network. Anyway I digress, all I really need to say is, congratulations to all involved you've done a great job, been a huge inspiration to me and if you don't mind I'd like to write a story about what you've done on the Australian Mac Users Group site as an example of what a Mac User Group is capable of when they truly embrace technology. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://australian.macusersgroup.org
