[Scale-planning] onsite data store

[der.hans]

Am 07. Mar, 2017 schwätzte David Lang so:

> 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.

One of the workshops mentioned was using wired connections, but still a
strain to somewhere.

ciao,

der.hans
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