The LAN group met today (the 24th) and worked through numerous ideas for the upcoming LANs this semester. First, a recap of what was discussed for the prior LAN:
- Network worked well - continue utilizing the DSUNIX connection
- Power was good with a handful of exceptions
- Donations were made
- Success in part due to Steam's Shattered Horizon free weekend
- Monitor rentals not so successful; advertise more
- Food sales were relatively poor; purchased too many brats
After discussing the above topics (the recap) the group moved on to discussing ambitious ideas for the April LAN:
- Keep Dakota Prairie Playhouse date
- Plan out power utilizing power grid map etc or other resources
- Pre-Register
- Get more people
- -from other colleges
- -from high schools
- -from the community
- Raise money
- Sell games? Charge at the door?
- Purchase new equipment?
- School involvement
- -talk to Student Services
If you have any questions or concerns in regards to the LANs or the LAN subgroup, please contact Adam Klindworth.
This past weekend was the DSU Computer Club's regular LAN party, we had about 25-30 gamers through out the night. This LAN party we tried a few new things, we did away with our tradational location of the DPP in favor of East Hall. I am pleased to say to say that agmonst our regular gamers we also had some new faces. While no "Offical" decision has been made quite yet, The club will most likely be holding future LAN parties in East Hall and possibly on a more semi-regular basis. Throughout the night several different games where played, I would say far more different games then in the past, some games played are as follow: armagetronad, team fortress 2, counterstrike, shattered horizon, league of legends, goldeneye source, Cube 2, The ship and starcraft. Hope to see everyone at the next LAN, which is current scheduled for Mach 20th, until then practice up!
LAN subgroup 2-17-2010
REMINDER: LAN prep Friday at 7 pm
FOOD
Do we want to do pizza? – not this time
If so we should buy something to cook them with (pizzazz?)
Are we going to offer brats/hot dogs/burgers? - brats
Are Alan and Nate doing pop again? yes
LAN Cables
Are we making some Friday night to sell? yes
NETWORK
- Can we get it set up and running Friday night
ADVERTISING
- Sit in the spectrum? – not this time
ROOMS
- EH 105 for computers
- 001 & 002 for consoles
- What’s our overflow room (if needed) – room 2 for overflow
LAN Prep Friday night at 7 pm in EH 105
How much should we rent out monitors for? - $2
Are we going to charge people to leave machines in East Hall overnight? – nope
Flyers to get ready and print:
Get survey ready
Brats order form
Donation flyer
Monitor charge sign-up sheet
Get brats before LAN possibly
Possible Survey Questions:
What games would you want to see
What food would you want
Did you like the monitor rentals
Do you like this location compared to the prairie playhouse
Was the staff helpful
Was the network easily accessible
On a scale of 1-10, what did you think of the LAN overall
Was the room too crowded
What was your favorite game
Comment area
We talked about different things that we want to implement for this upcoming LAN. We decided that we want to sell brats/hot dogs instead of pizza.
The network will need to be set up friday night before the lan, probably during our LAN prep night.
We are going to push open source/free games, and also only allow legit copies of games for the tournaments.
ADVERTISEMENT
- KDSU Advertisement - In the works
- Posters put up - done
- Scroller in TC - done
SETUP
9:00 AM Saturday morning
LAN runs 11 AM Saturday - 2 AM Sunday
LAN Subgroup Feb - 03
LAN Subgroup Feb - 03
Next LAN - Feb 20 - 21
- When: Start time_11am___ End Time _open ended__
- Where: East Hall VS DPP
Fee
- dsu id free - required
- donation charge
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Volunteers - in additions to officer
- Setup - 9am
- Cameron
- Pink Bandana guy
- Bryce
- tear down - 2am
- jarred
- Kameron
- Jason
- Cooking Pizzas
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- Help Desk / david miller - email
- admin pod
Promotion
- Posters - RYAN
- Paper - RYAN + NATE
- KDSU - joe
- School Events page - nate
- scroller - nate
- website
Events
- Tournaments Yes Or No
- PC Gaming
- Consoles
- Others
power cords
projectors - library
Brainstorming
Thoughts?
jason svatos
joe
brain
bryce
jarred
adam
nate
Ryan
We are currently meeting each Wednesday at 7:00pm in EH 002 to help plan the LANs to hopefully make them better! Hope to see you there!