Just listening to the episode (and tin-can Jono) and I wanted to point out that the Southeast Linuxfest (SELF) had awesome bandwidth. It can be done, but OSCON was a little weak.
Was SELFâs WiFi reliable and consistent? Thatâd be a rarityâŚ
Yeah. It was rock solid.
It comes down to design. The company that provided it was GlobalVision (https://www.globalvision.net/) and they had multiple connections to the Internet, multiple radios, load balancers ⌠the works. We set up OpenNMS to monitor it and it never got laggy:
http://www.adventuresinoss.com/2015/06/14/2015-self-day-two/
Now this was 500+ people versus the crowds at OSCON, but it can be done.
I think it was Tolstoy who said:
âEvery happy family is the same, but every unhappy family is intricately different.â
Aaron Swartz came from a family where his parents didnât praise him enough for his achievements.
As such I think he was constantly chasing his own tale trying to appease them.
In the final analysis, Iâm glad I come from a happy family, but I recognise those that donât.
Putting the Fun back into disFunctional?
I think that to much of an oxymoron for my head to assimilate - but I get your premise.
Those in that position, sometimes rope everyone in, until it becomes unbearable.
Watching the trailer to the internetâs own boy aswell as the film last year, I found that the old world is something that he knew how to supersede, he just didnât have the team in place to-do it.
I mean where is his books ? Oh wait, Laurence Lessig, is bringing out one on amazon in November.
Well, maybe weâll get to the bottom of it, by then.
Regading the Internet on conferences:
If you want to see Internet on Conferences done right, you should attend a CCC event, for example the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg (DE) or the Chaos Communication Camp.
To get an idea what they are doing take a look at the Infrastructure Review
cheerio
Steve
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This remains one of my favorite segments, and believe it or not the project is still alive.
âjeremy