It occurred to me, as I sat in a room that had no connectivity to speak of, to wonder this: Why does ORA continue to depend upon volunteer efforts for the WLAN for OSCON?
Now, I mean no disrespect for the fine folks who are donating their network skills and hardware, but we (attendees) are left sorta saying "well, ya can't complain, nobody's getting paid for the network, so it's catch as catch can".
But, why isn't anyone getting paid for it? There's 1500 attendees this year. If the conference fee total was raised $50, few people would really notice, and that would amount to $75,000 to spend on wireless network support for five days.
That's a helluvalotta money to build a small high-traffic WLAN with. Occurs to me to wonder why it's not being done.
actually, someone is getting paid for this.
They're thinking about getting some volunteers next time.