[FSPA] Magfest.

[ethan at 757.org]

> Yeah, probably the difference between 800 Pinburgh players and 25,000
> MAGfest attendees.  It'll work eventually, but yeah they're probably getting
> DoS pretty bad with overall attempts.

Just noticed the mail list! Crazy.

I'm in chaos mode getting ready for the Southeastern Laser Enthusiasts 
Meetup (pew pew pew) starting tomorrow and haven't been watching the 
MAGFest chat rooms. Just peeked don't see anything choatic but I'm not in 
the software dev channels.

In prior events people could reg hotel rooms with no money down, and when 
event hit a lot of Gaylord rooms became available because people then 
clump together with friends to save money / have fun. So they managed to 
get the hotels to fix that. That is what is up with the change for next 
year.

Other events I attend (Shmoocon in DC) have issues where tickets sell out 
in seconds and they're used to having to build huge load balanced 
infrastructure that is needed for about 2 minutes a year, doubt that is a 
thing for MAGFest yet.

MAGFest kind of grew up around this in-house written Python based 
management system. It handles schedules, staffers, registration, food and 
some other details. A lot of development work is put into it but it still 
can have issues, and I'm not sure of it's scalability :-)


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: Ethan O'Toole