Re: Build A Booth Spread the Word
Michael Weinberg <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 22 May 2007 11:16:19 -0700, "Don Park" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/22/07, Caleb Phillips <[email protected]> wrote: >> > It should be said that covering the entire exhibit hall, let alone >> > the entire site, without access to any internal infrastructure, is >> > likely to be impossible. > > This was tried in previous years to go from the street to inside the > hall. The walls block all signal from the street. Then the trick is to avoid the walls. The convention center is unlocked and virtually empty almost every weekday. We could very easily figure out the pieces with a few casual visits to test links from outdoors in. If someone asks why you have a laptop, just say you needed to hop onto their wifi service. (They won't though, it's totally empty.) >> like the hardest challenge. Once it is indoors we can deploy several of >> our WGT Army as a little (maybe OLSR maybe roofnet) several-hop mesh. >> We'll need to find relatively safe places to deploy them. I really doubt > > The Oregon Convention Center is pretty clear that their current > provider is the only Internet provider they want on-site. I think > we're within our rights to transmit from the curbside but deploying > hardware outside our booth is setting up a conflict with very little > to gain. We've had the PTP essid broadcasting before with local > content and it was neat but had little impact compared to the face > time we did. Its possible that the wifi provider situation at the OCC > has changed - you could contact the management there about it. Bah. This would be a demonstration put on as part of our booth. If there were a conflict (which is highly unlikely given the army of people and logistics they'll be dealing with) it will only make us look cooler when the word gets out. (see 2002 Starbucks in PioSq.) > I think the coming street fairs are a better place for practicing > adhoc deployment-foo. They're a good idea too, but I think (know!) there will be exponentially more interest in OSCON, where there are loads of people walking around with laptops, than a street fair where there are loads of families cruising for corndogs. Michael -- The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Un/Subscribe: http://lists.personaltelco.net/mailman/listinfo/general/ Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette