#OSGEO IRC Log - 2008-10-29

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10:13:29 FrankW: _wolf_: Did you promise the SoC students OSGeo tshirts?
10:14:11 FrankW: Any thoughts on how we would make such a thing happen?
10:25:14 FrankW: Does anyone read Italian well enough to identify the city in which this is being held?
10:25:39 FrankW: http://gfoss.it/pontedera08
10:25:41 sigq: Title: GFOSS day 2008 | GFOSS.it ( at gfoss.it )
10:37:29 darkblue_B: FrankW: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgfoss.it%2Fdrupal%2Fconvegno%2F&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=it&tl=en
10:37:30 sigq: Title: Translated version of http://gfoss.it/drupal/convegno/ ( at translate.google.com )
10:38:44 FrankW: I have deduced that "Museo Piaggio Pontedera" is the place and that Pontedera is some reasonably well recognise place name in Italy.
10:39:28 FrankW: Boy, google does better on Italian to English than on Chinese to English ( for which I use it more extensively )
11:17:55 nhv: FrankW http://maps.google.com/maps?q=pontedera+italy&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&client=firefox-a&cd=1&ll=43.607742,10.784454&spn=0.385317,0.909119&z=11&iwloc=addr
11:17:56 sigq: Title: Google Maps ( at maps.google.com )
11:19:55 ominoverde: FrankW: if you need more traslations from italian, just ping me
11:20:33 FrankW: I was just posting a brief pointer to the referenced event, so I'm good now - thanks.
11:33:21 TylerM: back in a couple hours
11:39:30 CameronShorter: Can someone who was at previous foss4g events tell me how many computers were set up in lab sessions.
11:39:38 CameronShorter: ( approx is fine )
11:40:21 FrankW: In capetown some of the rooms had 50 computers.
11:40:37 FrankW: I think in the past it has been as few as 20 ( when doubling up was expected ).
11:40:41 CameronShorter: And there were 6 rooms?
11:40:55 FrankW: In capetown? I think there were two main labs at the conference center.
11:41:10 FrankW: And another one I didn't see at the hotel, and one ( or more? ) at a university.
11:41:29 CameronShorter: In total maybe 100 to 150 computers?
11:41:50 FrankW: In capetown I believe they rented approximately 100 computers.
11:42:01 FrankW: So I presume the university labs came with their own systems.
11:42:05 pramsey: 2007 info should be in the wiki
11:43:46 CameronShorter: We will have labs for the first day ( offsite ) workshop in 2009. I'm wondering setting up 1 room with 20 computers is going to be difficult to manage.
11:44:27 CameronShorter: running in parallel with other sessions.
11:44:42 pramsey: http://rafb.net/p/hvInch13.html
11:44:43 sigq: Title: Nopaste - No description ( at rafb.net )
11:44:58 jmckenna: i thought we dropped these so-called 'labs' ( running concurrently ) ?
11:45:41 jmckenna: we can take this discussion into #foss4g to not cause noise
11:45:43 pramsey: Setting up a computer room is surprisingly involved.
11:45:48 jmckenna: amen
11:46:01 pramsey: You need enough power for 20 computers, which means ( usually ) special electrical drops to the room
11:46:04 CameronShorter: sure, moving to #foss4g
11:46:17 pramsey: you need networkign and hubs and then the outbound bandwidth to handle it
11:48:00 : <_wolf_> _wolf_: I sort of did, but only the ones who sent in a final report. I was planning to use the SoC money for that
11:48:10 : <_wolf_> FrankW: I mean...
11:49:04 FrankW: _wolf_: but who will make it happen? Getting shirts and shipping them is quite a big task ( and can be rather expensive ).
11:50:39 : <_wolf_> FrankW: I talked it over with tyler. It can be done. We are talking around 5 t-shirts. I think that ~$10.000 should be able to cover it. right?
11:51:02 FrankW: are you willing to do the work? I hesitate to task Tyler with it.
11:51:18 FrankW: The expense is certainly managable.
11:51:22 : <_wolf_> FrankW: I see it as my job as SoC admin ; )
11:51:37 : <_wolf_> but I'm still waiting for the money
11:51:52 FrankW: Ah, ok. Tasking yourself is certainly ok!
11:51:55 : <_wolf_> or rather Word from Tyler that we have received it
11:51:57 FrankW: Do you mean, the money from Google?
11:52:02 : <_wolf_> yes
11:52:09 FrankW: I don't see any reason you can't go ahead in advance of that.
11:52:10 : <_wolf_> the $500 x 20 projects