General UCCCamp ideals, planning, etc.
Historical Info
- UCCCamp is generally held in late November or early December, after the exam season has ended.
- It has been held at the Darling Range Adventure Camp more than any other place, due to
- Pretty cheap
- Large pool (pool use costs extra though)
- Good cooking facilities
- Dorm rooms with camp beds
- Large area for LAN
- Campy stuff luke bush to roam in, oval, sporting equipment
- Nobody can be buggered finding another place
- Generally people rock up with carloads of switches and stuff from UCC mid-afternoon Friday, spend a while setting up benches, the network, power, and modem/DHCP, then go through to Sunday afternoon.
Planning
- Probably the hardest event type to plan!
- Highly recommend having one person as the go-to guy, entirely responsible for the planning and delegation of roles.
- Set a firm date as early as possible
- Get a booking for the location as early as possible
- Food generally consists of breakfast both days, light lunch one or both days, and dinner Saturday night.
- Friday night dinner has traditionally been a pizza run.
- Matteo's pizza in Kalamund is expensive but 'boutique'. 8.3 km away. Order early because they struggle with large orders!
- For sweet sweet cheap pizzas, Dominos Forrestfield is the closest at 10.7 km away.
- For a "success" we need 15-20 people to show up. Get confirmations and payments early.
See http://camp.ucc.asn.au/ for some info
- $45/50 has been the price for a while, might have to go up now. Food an extra $5 pp, also might have to go up.
Attendee Registration script: http://www.ucc.asn.au/cgi-bin/ucc_camp_register.py
Planning
- Probably the hardest event type to plan!
- Ascertain who can bring carloads of people/gear/soft drinks/computers up from UCC.
- Some dedicated experts will hopefully setup the network while the average person is more interested in setting up their sweet gaming rig,
- Make sure we have a long (10-20m?) telephone cable to reach the phone outlet, plenty of the heavy-duty extension cords and powerboards.
- Gaffer tape too!
- Desks in a large square shape with network and power in the middle is a pretty safe bet.