[Scale-planning] onsite data store

[der.hans]

Am 07. Mar, 2017 schwätzte Christopher Smith so:

moin moin,

> These days, why not bring a few thumb drives, or just grab some from
> vendors, fill them with the data you need, and just pass them out?

Both ideas, using USB drives and snagging some from vendors, were
mentioned by someone in the conversation :).

ciao,

der.hans

> --Chris
>
> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 10:17 AM, David Lang <david at lang.hm> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 7 Mar 2017, der.hans wrote:
>>
>> moin moin,
>>>
>>> do we normally have an onsite data store that could hold materials for
>>> talks and workshops?
>>>
>>> This is more about discovering if we have something I don't know about (
>>> like the schedule xml export[0] ) than a request for service.
>>>
>>> The legal track sent out significant homework for the lawyers. They needed
>>> to read ahead of time, so didn't really need a local cache, but it got me
>>> thinking others might.
>>>
>>> I also overheard some people discussing pulling down ISOs for a couple of
>>> workshops.
>>>
>>> [0] I think I had been told about the xml option before, but forgotten
>>> about it.
>>>
>>
>> In the past we have had such a thing, but we tried to discourage people
>> from needing to download large items during the show, especially having a
>> whole roomful of people trying to download at the same time. The strain
>> that such behavior puts on the wireless network makes it painful.
>>
>> David Lang
>>
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