Attendee wifi

[animejump.livejournal.com]

Hi,

Is wifi going to be available in the convention space? I've got people asking me if my panels will be recorded - I ustreamed a couple of panels at Anime Boston last year to great effect, would like to again if wifi is free or cheap.

Comments

[paradoox.livejournal.com]

There is a plan to have one or two computers at the Volunteers lounge for use by Volunteers while they are waiting. There is no plan for "public" computers.

[paradoox.livejournal.com]

Yes, many more people have laptops now. Also, Arisia does a lot more things and there is neither the room nor the volunteers to setup a room of computers.

[noeltheone.livejournal.com]

There will indeed be free wireless for attendees, but with 3000 people in the hotel, we make no guarantees about having enough bandwidth to do live streaming. Please be courteous to your fellow attendees about high-bandwidth usage.

Check the Pocket Program, check-in letter, or ask at Info Desk for the wireless access code.

[blackberryuser.livejournal.com]

I have to ask......is it really a good idea to stream it live?
Is it fair to those people who are paying to attend the convention?

IMHO if you want to hear a panel you should pay to attend the con.
After all Arisia is spending alot of money to put on this con,
and alot of attendees are paying good money to attend the con.

[thespian.livejournal.com]

IMHO if you want to hear a panel you should pay to attend the con.

There is a fallacy there. It assumes that no one at the convention might not be able to make it to the panels; that no one is going to sign up for a volunteer shift, then learn a panel they want to attend conflicts (several positions such as registration would allow for an attendee to watch and pause the stream when they were needed to help). That the vendors, who are also members and either need to skip panels or hire help or close their booth are not interested in panels. That everyone who has paid for a membership is able to attend, and has not been waylaid by illness or travel problems. That no member is needed to stay in their room because their 3-year-old has naptime, or heck, after 8pm (since the panels go to 11:30) is just plain sleeping. That no attendee with fibromyalgia or other chronic pain condition will ever be kept from attending a panel because of their pain or the drugs they need to take.

[animejump.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's a great idea to stream it live! You can give people who can't attend a taste of the con. Like I said, I did it at Anime Boston at a late-nite panel and managed to double the audience (40 live, 40 online). It was neat!

I think you'd have a point if huge swaths of the convention were available streaming online. But this is for one presentation, which I'm doing solo.

As noeltheone suggests, however, I'll run a speed test when I'm at-con Friday afternoon and see what bandwith availability is like - if it's at a trickle, I won't bother, I'd just be clogging up the tubes for people trying to get at their email. Thanks for the info noeltheone!

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

Friday afternoon, before thousands of fans show up with laptops and smartphones will probably give you an optimistic bandwidth number (I've been to a number of fannish events where I no trouble accessing the net before it started and after it ended, but couldn't get any bandwidth for data during the event)

[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

I did pay to attend the con, and yet I won't be able to attend because my course schedule and travel time won't allow for it. Personally, I'll greatly appreciate the live streaming if it happens.

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

If you do record panels, please do remember to obtain permission to do so from the people being recorded. :)