[SGVLUG] Student Hackathon advice

[Junaid A.]

Thanks Michael.

 

They are all local. Some will use WiFi but I am recommending most of them to use wired connections. The total bandwidth at the location is a dedicated 10 Mbps .

 

Is there a good discussion board or website that can serve as a guide for a student group like this to have a successful first Hackathon? I told them about the SGVLUG and Scale etc. however, only a few students attended SCALE this year.

 

Any input would be useful since I will be the only onsite technical support.

 

Junaid

 

From: M Starch [mailto:mdstarch at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 11:32 AM
To: Junaid A. <junaidjan at yahoo.com>; SGVLUG Discussion List. <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] Student Hackathon advice

 

Are they remote, or local? Is their work remote or local? Googling for example takes less bandwidth than video conferencing or data movement tasks.

Another thing to note: commodity wifi routers tend to start dropping connections at that scale.  If you will have them all use WiFi, make sure your router can handle the load.  At an event at the Hackaday space, their router stopped serving internet with a comparable number of people and thus no one could access the internet.

Good Luck,

Michael

On May 3, 2016 10:21 AM, "Junaid A. via SGVLUG" <sgvlug at sgvlug.net <mailto:sgvlug at sgvlug.net> > wrote:

I am helping a student group from universities across the West Coast, with a Hackathon this Sunday.

 

Any advice on how much bandwidth is typically required for a 75 user hackathon?

 

Thanks

 

Junaid Aasi

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