[AusNOG] Flooding in Rockhampton - What can AUSNOG do?

[McDonald Richards]

It may be something the organisers can consider - interim events that happen
mid-year with a smaller scale than the big events in capital cities.

I don't think you'll find many international speakers who want to fly into
Sydney and then have to find their way out to a regional airport to stay in
a best western so they can deliver a talk to 40 people.

I'd attend though - time permitting.

>From an organisational standpoint, it may be that a regional ISP has to
provide assistance arranging things - similar to how Nanog runs.

My 2c

Macca
 


On 10/01/11 12:54 PM, "Adrian Chadd" <adrian at creative.net.au> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011, Mark Newton wrote:
> 
>> We could have an event on Great Keppel Island. It's only 50km from
>> the horror and carnage of Rockhampton. We'd probably be able to see with
>> binoculars if we climbed the right tree.  We'd have to put down our
>> pina coladas to climb it though.
> 
> If people are interested in an AUSNOG-not-in-Sydney, may I suggest something
> that qualifies as a little more "remote Australia?"
> 
> What I'd love to see (if people really want to stir things up a bit) are
> networking events in more remote, country locations.
> 
> My (limited) experience running around the countryside trying to make
> internets work is that it can be a different world out there and
> providing some exposure to internet-in-the-outback may open the
> eyes of a few more people.
> 
> 2c, and I understand how unfeasible it can be to hold a 200+ person event
> in a country town, which is why it should happen in the first place..
> 
> 
> Adrian