[ubuntu-us-mi] Penguicon Packaging Jam?

[Aaron Thul]

Josh,

This is a great idea as the Penguicon event always strains a locations
bandwidth.

On Nov 21, 2007 11:42 AM, Josh <jpdreamcenter at comcast.net> wrote:
> just a thought, there were some concerns over bandwidth, how about
> setting up a local computer to be a repo mirror? Setting up people's
> apt-list is about all you would have to do to make this happen. It
> certainly would alleviate any issues of bandwidth strain...? Just a
> thought.
> josh p
>
> On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 07:33 -0500, Wolfger wrote:
> > If you need another panelist, I'm willing to help (hopefully the panel
> > won't conflict with a Tom Smith or Randall Munroe panel....), but I've
> > only been using Kubuntu for a few months now (used Ubuntu for 2 weeks
> > before the lack of KDE drove me insane, used Mepis and Gentoo for
> > quite some time before that), so I might not be the best panelist for
> > this.
> >
> > On Nov 20, 2007 9:40 PM, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Trevor,
> > >
> > > My last mail got a bounce message, and I certainly don't think
> > > replying to spam.goes.here48048 at gmail.com is going to work, so I'm not
> > > sure who's going to see this. But maybe you can put me on the list,
> > > since I've wanted to be more a part of the Ubuntu Michigan local
> > > community for a long time. I've been an Ubuntu user for several years.
> > > (One for whom DVDs and Flash are not working under Gutsy, by the way.
> > > Also I have broken my splash screen.)
> > >
> > > An Ubuntu Q & A would be fantastic. You just need to decide who the
> > > target audience is. Then tell me the names of the panelists.
> > >
> > > Tim Schmidt, head of Tech programming, are you getting this?
> > >
> > > -Matt
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Nov 20, 2007 9:30 PM, Trevor Jagoda <spam.goes.here48048 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > While we've got your ear, Mat, the LoCo have also been pondering the
> > > > idea of a panel.  Basically, we'd like to host a sort of Ubuntu Q&A
> > > > panel.  I dont remember at this very moment what we decided the final
> > > > sticky ideas would be, but is there space for the sort of panel were
> > > > suggesting?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Trevor Jagoda
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 20:20 -0500, Matt Arnold wrote:
> > > > > Keysigning! Brilliant! I'm penciling one into the schedule right now.
> > > > > -Matt
> > > > >
> > > > > On Nov 20, 2007 8:06 PM, Marshal Newrock <marshal at idealso.com> wrote:
> > > > > > On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:55:40 -0500
> > > > > > Rick Harding <rharding at mitechie.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > This is all depending on numbers so take it all with a grain of salt.
> > > > > > > Basically when I ran this with 7 people we had wired/wireless
> > > > > > > internet. I didn't want to flood my one access point or deal with
> > > > > > > getting people's wireless working. Everyone needs to be able to get
> > > > > > > on the same subnet though so share a gobby editing session.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > The net connection needs to be able to handle everyone pulling
> > > > > > > packages and such, but it's not a ton of total MB worth of stuff.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'll just address this here.  If you're using the Computer Lounge
> > > > > > network, then there should be a caching web proxy, so that would
> > > > > > decrease the bandwidth requirements.  I'm assuming that packages are
> > > > > > fetched via http and ftp.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > As far as networking, then I'm sure that one way or another, we can get
> > > > > > all of the computers on the same subnet.  Either with a wireless router
> > > > > > which provides dhcp, with a switch hanging off of it for the wired
> > > > > > computers, or by making sure there's a network card specifically for
> > > > > > packaging jam computers in the terminal server, and having the terminal
> > > > > > server provide dhcp.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --
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> > > > > >
> > > > >
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> > > >
> > > >
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