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From: "Matthew Barr" <mbarr@snap-interactive.com>
and as I was working the Hugo's:
On Sep 14, 2012, at 10:14 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
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From: "Chris Adams" <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
I know some of that went on, yes, and certainly if I'm more formally involved, I'll be querying the SMOFlist to see who ran things at the last 5 or so.
My bet is that none of them *had* a formal CTO/Ops person full time.
Tech had a person managing the feed to DragonCon from the dedicated room w/ the polycomm video conference system, for panels, in addition to the actual union operator of the camera & such.
The camera ops had to be union? Hmmm. Ah, Chicago. Yes.
There was an IT head, but he was responsible for the laptops / staff network, printers, etc.
Got it.
The hotel itself had the conference wireless, instead of it being brought in.
Yes, and I'm told by my best friend who did attend (I didn't make it this year) that the hotel wired/wifi was essentially unusable, every time he tried. Hence my interest in the issue.
My understanding was that Dragon *took its main feed* for the Hugos via Ustream, and the entire room got left standing; no?
Dragon took it's feed for the hugo's through Ustream, as did the *overflow* rooms onsite. It was easier to go to the internet & back, than to get a direct cable.
Ok, then I was correctly informed; thanks. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274