What are the pre-recs for joining VICLan?

[baikes]

Listed as per suggestion made by Madcap_magician.

[kyzen]

None really, we are trying to make it as open as possible. The more LAN's as members, the better, and the more we can do. We also want to assist LAN's in establishing themselves, every town needs a LAN ;)

[madcap_magician]

:wave

Thanks Baikes, well thats good to know. Just so u guys know what LAN-ZillA is, Lz was a pet project of mine and my mate [crawZ] as a big LAN project for the gamers that we know, it was run at teh buninyong town hall, we had hoped for 50 gamers but in the end we had 60+ gamers show up and game, *w00t*

we had sponcership from the very good people at BnD Tech, for the loan of some very L337 hub'age and backed up agian by the [SuP] gaming clan's own network gear. It to us a hell of a lot of work to get it off the ground and it payed off, but help like what VICLan can offer would been a real boost. Due to school {were both still at school, Yr12} its been hard for us to run another and also time is hard....but the end of the year around november december is when we will be running the next Lz. Support to help us do this and make it a better LAN for all would be a huge shot in the arm. The venue we had loved us, and allowed up less rent and less bond for the next event. even better news for us.

But the aim of this LAN was for gamers from the many schools we know to come and have some mad game action, but we found it hard to run something like this, and this is where VICLan would help us, we made some mistakes and have learnt from them and from what i saw at X6, support of gamers going to LANs is another goal i hope to push for, its all well and good having LAN, but when numbers don't show, it bombs out.

With ZillA, we allowed the many school aged gamers to LAN and with this many people allows for bigger and better LANs

I think that VIClan is teh BoMB, it would help people like the Lz crew to get off the ground, and not the hard way||

Peace, :woot

[baikes]

What thread are you replaying to dude??

[madcap_magician]

i was just explaning what teh Lz crew had doen with teh LAN for people who didn't know bout us and all dat jazz..das all :)

[baikes]

Quote: "Thanks Baikes, well thats good to know."

I didn't say anything in the topic.....

[SPOT]

hahahahah madcap is smokin spliffs again.

[madcap_magician]

werd.! and they were good, smooth as........ road trippin Yo!

[baikes]

These are all good points, but none of them result in a more direct answer....naah its all good.
Any updates on this project??

[SPOT]

what sorta updates are you after baikes, specifically??
we are still at it working hard and getting no sleep, this week the neis course is about tax.
there will be a VicLAN oh&s pack for each member lan, with thelan appointing an oh&s dude responisble for safety.
ummm, kenny and i will get the constitution done soon.

anything else?? just ask and ye shall recieve!!

[baikes]

Thanks for the update.
I was just wondering what part of the project had been done and what stage you were up to.

You have answered that. Thanks again.

[SPOT]

thats cool man, sorry guys about the lack of updates.
all this stuff gets on top of us and we forget to update you guys, plus we are trying to put on events at the same time.

but yeah its looking good for a novemberish start.

[baikes]

The time is near.....Anything new????
Just wondering......(I just had to post something)

The time is near.....Anything new????
Just wondering......(I just had to post something)

[SPOT]

we have now finished the actual course part of NEIS,
and we move into the final stage of it all, the BUSINESS PLAN and the PANEL.

me and kenny are hard at work on the business plan cause its like 30 pages long as well as running events so please excuse the lack of updates. (we kinda forget about it sorry!)

but its very, very near. we just have to finalise numbers with you guys and then we are probably ready to offer you guys lan manager membership!! :woot

[baikes]

Great JORB there.
When is your plan due by?

[kyzen]

Only 3 weeks away mate, then we have all the time in the world to spend on this, going to be awesome, cause Dave is coming in with us, and he is the best coder you will ever meet :)

[baikes]

Well I'm not much of a coder, so I'll take your word for it.

3 Weeks and counting.

[radass]

erm, i'm a good adaptable coder, rather than any other outrageous claims :p

[cherrypopper]

Well Kenny i know how much work goes into a business plan (i am also in the middle of geeting one done for an idea i have, very slowy :) ) but its well worth it.

Keep up the good work guys and let us know when your done.

Also remember guys if any of you need help running your LAN's you don't have to wait for VicLAN to be up and running there are already LAN's around the place willing to help you if you need it. Both MoB & MonsterLAN (me) have all the gear needed to run a large LAN so if you do need stuff just let us know.

Also if you don't want to have to borrow switches all the time MonsterLAN has reseller status from Alloy Computer Products and can get cheap good quality gear, we use it at our LAN's with no problems at all.

[madcap_magician]

We at LAN-ZillA would appreciate all the help we can get for getting our 2nd LAN off the ground. We were right with setup and admin details but just layout and placement of peeps were a prob. any pearls of wisdow i can get from the more senior LAN managers would be ace.