[Events] bringing your own wireless (Events Digest, Vol 19, Issue 2)

[Sumana Harihareswara]

On 10/06/2012 12:10 PM, Catherine Devlin wrote:

> So does anybody know if there's a way to essentially bring in just
> enough internet to do the workshop?  I'm unfortunately not an
> experienced network person and don't even know the right jargon to ask
> the question in, but could I host a CodingBat server on my own machine
> and let attendees connect directly to it there, whether the wider
> internet is available or not?

Could you get a few MiFi devices?  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiFi

> Incidentally, have we ever developed an easy way to clone a workshop's
> wiki pages and get all the internal links changed accordingly?  In
> Indianapolis, I missed a bunch of links, so attendees sometimes
> accidentally wandered from the Indianapolis pages to Boston.  If we're
> still doing it by hand, maybe I can figure out a way to script it...
> 
> Thanks!

I don't know as much about MediaWiki tomfoolery as I ought, but I think
you could do a limited export (into XML) of certain pages, and then
import them into your wiki?

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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation