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Re: Tuesday, January 15, 2002
February 4th Digital Seas arranged for me to board the Holland America Volendam, the ship that will be used for MAC Mania. Although the fiber optic to ethernet connection had not been prepared, I was able to complete the wireless site survey. Geek Cruises is expecting 130-150 people to attend MAC Mania, which cruises out of Vancouver to Alaska May 27 - June 3. While in Ft. Lauderdale for the site survey, I also arranged to complete a wireless Internet site survey aboard Royal Caribbean's Voyager of the Seas. Last July I completed a WLAN site survey of the sister ship, Explorer of the Seas on the same weekend I was surveying the Maasdam, which was used for LINUX Lunacy in October. The Voyager of the Seas is the largest cruise ship in the world (as are the sister ships in the Voyager Class). Almost three times larger than the Maasdam, I will be booking some cruise seminars July - September for a project somewhat different than Geek Cruises, yet similar enough we (MOUStech.NET, LLC) have partnered for the wireless projects together, a great example of non-competitive altruistic business alliances. I am planning on arriving early in Vancouver for MAC Mania to survey the Holland America Ryndam, which will host LINUX Lunacy, cruising to Mexico from San Diego, and then surveying the Holland America Amsterdam, which will host JAVA JAM in Alaska. The Amsterdam is the flag ship of Holland America. Although not every Geek Cruise will offer the wireless Internet access, those cruises that book enough conference attendees to pay for the up link will get the service. The geeks at LINUX Lunacy deserve a great deal of credit for helping Beta test this entire concept of wireless Internet access at sea, because it could have died at birth if we had not pressed Digital Seas to get the Internet access on PERL Whirl in January. The geeks from PERL Whirl did a great job of finishing up the Beta testing so that we can offer the service, starting with MAC Mania. (Apple always seems to do things first...) There are responses to this message:
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