[committee] VPN access for non-UWA librarians

[Matthias Liffers]

Hnnh, that's fair enough, how silly of me.

We're not sure how many people are coming, but there aren't that many
librarians in Perth.  We aiming at around 60 people, but I can't
imagine that more than 50% of them will need wireless access.  Heck, I
would be surprised if even 10 people want wireless access.

I'm happy to deal with the tech support myself - SNAP isn't exactly
demanding in terms of system requirements.  I'm sure I could arrange
some sort of reward for anybody that's willing to help me out if
things go pear-shaped.  As I said, this event is (hopefully) going to
be free, so our attendees can't expect much.

As for bandwidth, one person may want to show off Second Life, but I
can't imagine them doing more than just Web browsing, checking email
and/or blogging.

On 7/6/07, Adrian Chadd <adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 06, 2007, Matthias Liffers wrote:
> > ITS is likely to charge more money than you guys would.
> >
> > I'm happy to be responsible for keeping track of which person is using
> > which account.  Also, since I'm hoping to make this cost attendees
> > nothing, they will have to deal with whatever passwords are assigned
> > ;-)
>
> You might be able to get a freebie from ITS if you're nice to Marie.
> Thing is, they've got access to the Bright link too and part of the
> motivation for it was to provide non-UWA-specific groups - eg the
> University Club for Events! - with access to unmetered internet.
>
> You realise though that the bright link at UCC is actually pretty
> shit and I don't think you've given any information about how big
> this conference is, how many attendees are popping by, how many
> would be interested in internet, what you think they'd be up to
> (are they leechers? are they browsers? will they expect super-fast
> access to their email? etc), and all that guff.
>
> And you still haven't mentioned anything at all about technical support.
> Will you provide 100% of the technical support, and who at UCC will be
> around to help you when you can't solve the issue? :)
>
>
>
> Adrian
>
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