[GLLUG] Thanks for Your Help

[Richard Houser]

> And congratulations on winning Junkpile Wars single-handedly.  You da man!

Just to clear up a few misconceptions, I only thought I was going to be
doing this one solo.  Nima Khazaei (GLLUG non-member, one of our new
assurers) was also without a team and I invited him to join (what's the
point of multiple one-man teams, anyhow?).  Nima was particularly helpful
with hunting and pecking through the hardware to find the right parts,
gathering diagnostics, etc.  Ben also joined us at the end of the
competition and was quite helpful in getting past our only major stumbling
block.  I think we were stuck for nearly an hour on that Kerberos+DNS
problem.

> Thank you to all of you who volunteered time in the computer lounge, and
making sure stuff didn't walk off.  And for carrying out those
all-important room counts. . . . Whether anyone will bother
to figure out the maximum number at any one time, or other statistics
useful for planning, is doubtful, especially because we'll probably never
again see the
spreadsheet used to record and add the numbers.  If anyone does or did
retrieve /home/gllug/visitors.ods from the server, I would appreciate
having a copy of it, just in case someone actually asks for the
supporting data.

That spreadsheet was very questionable at best, and likely just plain wrong
at many points.  For example, the maximum size recorded on the sheet was 27
(also another mid-twenties value), yet during the keysigning we had every
terminal seat filled (one machine down, so at least 23 at the terminals -
only a few were used for keysgining), the entire back laptop table filled
(about 8-10), a group of five assurers based around the piano, a few
miscellaneous people standing around/sitting by the security desk, and
people sitting on both the couch and the armchair by the blocked off
entrance.  That puts my observed peak count at around 36-40.  There was also
a similar peak experienced during the other keysigning event, but not quite
as severe (~30 perhaps?).

There were just too many inconsistencies with how we tracked numbers (ex. do
we count computer lounge staff?), plus the couch/chair weren't visible form
the security station.


And again Chick, thank you for taking over some of this administrative stuff
at the last minute.


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