Good news, and open for registration!

[Conrad Strydom]

Hi All,

I have very good news, we have been welcomed to use the school hall at
De Kuilen Primary in Kuilsriver for a very low daily price. We have
the venue over night starting on the 16th of June, which is a public
holiday. You can bring your sleeping bag and hang out with the crowd
or feel free to depart home whenever you feel like it.

The school will be providing as many chairs and tables as they have
available, there is a basic kitchen we can use as well as toilet
facilities. There is secure parking for quite a few vehicles at the
venue.

Dave Duarte has said that he will be running a small tuck shop and/or
warm kitchen for those that need a snack, otherwise MacDonalds, KFC,
and Scooters are around the corner (all within a block).

What we still need to organise:
*2 x Data Projectors
*Lapel Mics and mixing facilities for recording purposes (anyone an expert?)
*Sponsors for the all the leads and powerstrips we need to hire (about
R800 - R1000)
*Still an opportunity for a meal sponsor to come in.
*Sponsorship for liquids, Coffee and Tea, Water etc.
*Anyone got any of those fancy mushroom heaters? The ones that run on gas.
*Bandwidth, we will be using the R2000 that Adrian has pledged on
behalf of Bryght, but we are still looking for more, it will have to
be 3G or some other wireless solution. If you use something like this
at your office, can we borrow a couple gigs?

Those that have discussed sponsorship with me earlier, can you please
come back to me ASAP so we can finalise matters?

Regards
--
Conrad Strydom
*Geek by day - Superhero by night*
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[Warwick Bruce Chapman]

Does the school have an ADSL line? If so, we could bring Uncapped.

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[Conrad Strydom]

> Does the school have an ADSL line? If so, we could bring Uncapped.

Unfortunately not, but we may have other options!

[Warwick Bruce Chapman]

iBurst or Sentech signal?

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[Ian Gilfillan]

How about arranging for the school to have an ADSL line installed?
There's enough time, and even with installation it would probably work
out cheaper and more reliable than other options, especially with
people able to supply uncapped bandwidth. Would be a nice gift to leave
behind for the school too, if they decide to use it.

[Conrad Strydom]

Yes, I did think about that, what are the implications in terms of
contractual obligation with telkom?

Anyone got a Telkom contact?

[Conrad Strydom]

In terms of what those other options are:

3G, worked fine when I tried it out.
There is a chance of getting in with a WISP (they need to signal test)
iBurst has a weakish signal (according to the coverage map)
No idea about Sentech, couldn't register for the map just now.

[Jacques Marneweck]

I'll pop my contact at Telkom a mail in the morning regarding this.

Regards
--jm

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[Nick Lombard]

> On 5/9/06, Conrad Strydom < conrad....@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Anyone got a Telkom contact?

On 5/10/06, Jacques Marneweck <jmarn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll pop my contact at Telkom a mail in the morning regarding this.

Let us know who she is and the physical address of the venue... better
these contacts work together?
There will be installation charges:
http://www.telkom.co.za/athome/products/dsl/home_how_much.html
If it's a new line then we need to add telephone line installation to
that too... or maybe Telkom will sponsor it? *sic*

[Conrad Strydom]

Hi guys,

The phonebook lists it as "Laerskool De Kuilen" and its in Church Str.
or Kerk Straat. (Takes up most of the street, and the church the rest
:))

Let us know what your contact reckons, timing is critical, we can't
commit if they can't do it comfortably in the timeframe, and I reckon
that may mean some prefferential treatment, last I saw the lead time
was in excess of a month..

Once we get our ducks in a row, I can chat to the principal.

Cheers

[Jacques Marneweck]

This Telkom Commercial nonsense again.  The principal of the school needs to apply for the phone line and ADSL connection.  Telkom requires the principal to sign surety for the line (which is just charming).

Do you have a phone number for the school to see if they are on an exchange that can get ADSL?

Regards
--jm

Jacques Marneweck
http://www.powertrip.co.za/blog/

[Conrad Strydom]

Hi,

> This Telkom Commercial nonsense again. The principal of the school needs to
> apply for the phone line and ADSL connection. Telkom requires the principal
> to sign surety for the line (which is just charming).

This is what I was worried about, I don't think it is reasonable to
get the principal to jump through hoops like that for us.

[Adrian Rossouw]

On 10 May 2006, at 3:15 PM, Conrad Strydom wrote:

>
> This is what I was worried about, I don't think it is reasonable to
> get the principal to jump through hoops like that for us.

agreed

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[Jacques Marneweck]

Anyone got wireless equipment to get a wireless link going to town.  I'm sure I can convince an ex-employer who runs an ISP to possibly sponsor bandwidth over a WiFi link.

Regards
--jm

On 5/10/06, Conrad Strydom <conrad....@gmail.com> wrote:

[Jamie MacDonald]

yeah but this is telkom, we could just say we are the principal. they don't know any better and they probaly don't even have any checks in place.

jamie

[Jacques Marneweck]

Telkom do something called "Credit Vetting".  I've a word document from my Telkom contact explaining in detail what each type of entity requires in order to apply for services from Telkom.

Regards
--jm

[Jamie MacDonald]

It is a shame that we couldn't leave the school with adsl. Maybe we could contact shutelworth guys to see if they would be intrested in it ?

comeing from britan it is hard to imagen a school with out internet access

jamie