On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Jeremy Brooking wrote:
Nathan Ward wrote:
On another note, Whos going to Netforum? A quick survey of Auckland Thursday Night Curry attendees didn't look too promising..
There are those of us who would love too...
But cannot afford the insane pricing.
<grump> By which I assume you make less than $20,000 per year and live in central Auckland. Seriously it's $250 per day, if you go on two days thats $500 bucks. $20/per weeek if you started saving at the start of the year when this was first mentioned (and I think I told people to start saving). If you present you get that day free. If you talk your work into a 5% training budget then it'll cover it. Exactly what sort of pricing could you afford? I remmeber the little ISP forum that Internetnz had a couple of years back, that was $50 per day and nobody much attended. </grump> I have got the impression back that a reasonable number of people are not going to go this year. I'd be interesting in knowing what reasons you have for not attending and what sort of event you would and could attend. Feel free to send me private email and I can summarise to the list. I'm not in the business of organising these sort of things so I'll keep any feedback anonymous. I went to a little peering forum in Sydney organised by Equinix a couple of weeks ago and there were around 25 ISPs that attended that. It was just an afternoon from 2-6 with 3-4 quicks talks and plenty of coffee and drinks in between to meet people (and over a dozen went out to dinner afterwards). Had a look around Equinix's facility last week as well, very nice (usual data center with lots of racks , cages and the usual solid power, aircon, security etc). They have around half a dozen telco's in there already so it's pretty easy to buy/sell/peer with anybody. The skytower seems to be the closest we have to this here but NZ could probably do with something closer to this size (where you can just buy a dozen or half a dozen racks worht of space) Certainly if I were starting and ISP or other Internet company tomorrow we'd put out stuff straight in there rather than in our own facility. I remmeber a few proposals for such places a couple of years back (Phillip D'Ath was involved with one from memory) but none of them seem to have happened (feel free to correct me). -- Simon Lyall. | Newsmaster | Work: simon.lyall(a)ihug.co.nz Senior Network/System Admin | Postmaster | Home: simon(a)darkmere.gen.nz Ihug Ltd, Auckland, NZ | Asst Doorman | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz