[NYCBSDCon] One idea

[Isaac (.ike) Levy]

On September 11, 2013 01:35:51 PM EDT, "Michael W. Lucas" 
<mwlucas at michaelwlucas.com> wrote:

>
> If you do it at lunch: have food beside each table.
>
> You want chips?  Gotta talk to the guy porting tor to pfSense.
>
> I call dibs on the dessert table.
>
> ==ml
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> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 01:14:44PM -0400, George Rosamond wrote:
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>>
>> This should be the forum for tossing around ideas.. too much is
>> happening offlist and informally, and will be forgotten and lost.
>>
>> So based on some input from Patrick, wouldn't it be useful to have a
>> period (lunch?) when there are stations setup around the meeting space.
>>
>> A dev/user has a fat sign over there head with a particular topic.
>>
>> I imagine...
>>
>> "Hi, I'm Joe Blow.  This is the ARM FreeBSD table.  This is how you use
>> crochet and edit the configs.  If you have a mSD or SD card, I can dd an
>> image for you.  Here is a BBone to test if you want to take a look
>> around.  I'm not a dev.  I can barely tie my own shoes.  But I got it
>> working"
>>
>> "Hi, I'm Jill Blow.  I'm a bad-ass OBSD dev focused on octeon.  Do you
>> want to do something useful with your octeon hardware at home?  This is
>> what I'm working on.  We can talk more on this list/irc/whatever.  Oh,
>> you have a few pallets of octeon hardware to donate?  great."
>>
>> "Hi, I'm no one in particular.  Do you have *any* hardware to donate or
>> which you can get fat discounts on?  Please sign here."
>>
>> We put out a call for volunteers for it, have some prearranged, and go
>> from there.  Sort of like some middle school science expose.
>>
>> It would open things up a bit.  We could also do them as lightning
>> sessions, and force group by group to do the circuit.
>>
>> g
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Awesome idea!  Lets do it.

I'll step up with a "Science Fair Volcano" that I can easily pull off: 
Demo of PfSense/carp HA setup.

When I train folks on this setup, I drag soekris boxes out to build a 
full replica of a network, including fake WAN side, and soekris lagg(4) 
server.  Fits in a backpack, fun to unplug cables and watch it all 
survive.  If the con were tomorrow, I could light this in 30 minutes...

Interactive fun: pulling ethernet, changing config, watching ping not 
stop, etc...

Rocket-
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