At one point we farmed out the Website tasks to Students at the University (NZNOG2006) hosting it. IIRC that year went well, there were embedded web feeds with slides and speaker bios readily available, and the proceedings were fairly well organized. There is in my mind is no doubt, that a more academic styled organizational structure works the best from quelling talk about information being available and clearly defined. If you get to the point where the only gripes are about is whether CMS XYZ is the better choice then whoever did it that year won. I know many of you would like to distance the event from the Academic institution clique; because it is a industry conference - I get that. BUT by involving and allowing Universities to have their bit we empower students and UNI staff to bring those qualities to the conference and it is better off for it. -Joel On 2 April 2013 11:12, Richard Naylor <richard.naylor(a)r2.co.nz> wrote:
At 01:48 a.m. 2/04/2013, Michael Fincham wrote:
On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 22:18:02 +1300, Juha Saarinen wrote:
Maybe it's time for NZNOG to migrate to Facebook?
I hope this is some kind of April Fool's insanity.
I took it that way. Sadly we seem to have a generation (and the Media) who think that Facebook *is* the Internet. Its important that we keep this list going as an open tool/forum for operational/funny and discussion reasons.
The conference has always had some underlying issues of organisation. All voluntary organisations have that issue with their conference. Committees rise and fall with enthusiasm. Thats very common. But the value of the conference is without doubt great.
We have some issues with the website - perhaps we could ask InternetNZ if they could host the site.
Then maybe all of us could think about what we could post to stimulate discussion. Right now theres heaps going on and maybe we need to be a little proactive about how this could affect us both at work and at home.
For example UFB is rolling out pretty well ( the abf tubes are almost 3 doors from my house) How will UFB affect us all ? Will peering change ? Will usage patterns change ? Will the beer go flat ?
Richard
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