Re: [Sheflug] Wiki links wanted (Dinnington.net + Plone event)

[Dean Sas <dean@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Holland wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 March 2007 09:54, Jan White wrote:
>> Richard,
>>
>> Where did Dinnington get the money to setup a free wireless network?
>> Any chance Sheffield has any good ideas like this in the pipeline?
>
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> The project includes a bank of servers based on Ubuntu, making Linux desktop 
> applications available to the anyone in the community using NX. This works 
> from anywhere, but performance in the wireless coverage area is excellent. 
> There are some caveats though - disabling screen savers on the server 
> sessions being an important one we have recently discovered!
> 
> We are presently working on extending this to include local streaming of 
> audio / video. The wireless network is well suited to this and several 
> Sheflug members are involved in making this work.
> 

Bob,

This is a really cool, interesting thing you've done, I'm surprised 
we've not heard more about it.

The GNOME project are dedicating some of the talks at their summer 
conference in Birmingham to "deployment stories", this project 
particularly the community access to desktop applications thing sounds 
exactly like the kind of thing they would be interested in. The deadline 
for submitting talks is tomorrow but I think if you're a couple of days 
late that deadline may be a little flexible. See 
http://guadec.org/callforpapers

It'd be nice to see you there, you'd possibly gain some new ideas, have 
a chance to impress your needs on the developers and get some free 
publicity for your project.

Dean

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