[GLLUG] more Penguicon thoughts

[Caleb Cushing]

then I suggest not at all, unless your volunteering to set up and tear down.
because having to set up and tear down twice a day will be  nuisance. We
didn't have to baby sit it last year. We could just keep the password out of
the hands of anyone that doesn't show there ID as over the age of 18. this
would be no more difficult than the monitoring they do for alcohol. Or we
could remove all games rated mature from the list of what's playable.

On 4/23/07, Marshal Newrock <marshal at idealso.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:05:16 -0400
> "Caleb Cushing" <xenoterracide at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I think we should petition for help for computer lounge volunteers
> > from outside of gllug (maybe the other LUGS and UHACC). We have a
> > sizeable group but it make it difficult. especially if your like me
> > and the weekend was your vacation, and you don't care about the
> > refund for serving 6 hours.
>
> Asking Penguicon at large would help with this.
>
> > I like the Idea of a seperate gaming room. Although I would want it
> > to be a permanent installation for the weekend because the hardware
> > would be too much to set up and tear down every night. We could also
> > take games like Doom 3 (really violent and gory off of our list).
> > another option instead of making gaming completely separate is find a
> > way to partition it off from the rest of the lounge. this would be
> > especially true if we can't get more machines.
>
> There isn't the available space for a permanent gaming room, whether
> in a physical room or partitioned off. I'm not going to try to get the
> entire ballroom just for the computer lounge.  It would either be in a
> room for a few hours after panels are done, or not at all.  I don't see
> how the setup and teardown could take more than 15 minutes each, unless
> there's complexities in setting up a gaming computer which I'm not
> aware of.
>
> Plus, a 24-hour gaming area which is essentially unmonitored (apart
> from making sure no one walks off with a gaming machine) becomes a
> babysitting station, which is not its purpose.  If we're going to show
> off computer gaming on Linux, I don't see that we should have to police
> what's on it to make sure there's nothing which might be inappropriate
> for an unsupervised child.
>
> As a side note, the computer lounge policy does not yet address
> unsupervised children.  This should probably be fixed.
>
> --
> Marshal Newrock
> Ideal Solution, LLC - http://www.idealso.com
>



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Caleb Cushing
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