Nice guy, eh...cool!... and cheers for the reference. As you might have guessed I agree completely, and I'll be joining the DAI.
Here on CloudAve we spend a reasonable amount of time travelling to, from and between conferences. We see lots of different hotels and attend many different events.
Nice guy David Terrar posted complaining of the poor WiFi access at the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin recently, he also compared that to the frankly outstanding access at the recent Office 2.0 Conference. I attended Office 2.0 and commented on the excellent connectivity there.
Arguably even worse than poor conference access is being charged exorbitant rates for Internet access at hotels - and this after paying exorbitant room rates too. I've also commented about that situation.
Here on CloudAve we're proponents and evangelists for living in the clouds - poor Internet access is therefore anathema to us so we're going to lead the charge against the evil that is poor connectivity options.
So we're announcing the CloudAve Decent Access Initiative - in which we attempt to solve these problems via two strategies.
From now on when travelling, the CloudAve team will have free Internet connectivity as a minimum requirement when choosing hotels. If an option exists, CloudAve will chose hotels providing free access and will shout far and wide about said hotel. Where no option exists we'll name and shame the guilty party and advise the community just how much they charge for WiFi
Conference organisers have a lot on their plates - we understand that Internet connectivity is just one of the things on the list. CloudAve however is in a reasonable position to slowly influence conference organisers to put connectivity higher up on their list of things to do.
As a caring and sharing bunch - we're inviting all our peers to joins the DAI - what you have to do is obvious, and together we can show the power of the collective voice.
United we stand!
Nice guy, eh...cool!... and cheers for the reference. As you might have guessed I agree completely, and I'll be joining the DAI.
I've been speaking at SOMESSO in Zurich... guess what? WiFi has been up and down like a wh.... you know what I mean. Will post on DAI later - hope we start a movement.
@David, I suppose they did not find Swisscom in Zurich... like the Office 2.0 and Defrag teams did in the US :-)
@David - as I always say - united we stand, divided we fall @everyone GRT Grand in Chennai, India has free WiFi everywhere in the hotel
[..] So, please join us in theDecent Access Initiative, and always say DAI to our conference organizers. [..]
[..] So, please join us in theDecent Access Initiative, and always say DAI to our conference organizers. [..]
[..] Conferences have changed, especially the Web-focused ones. We no longer get there to passively sit and listen, but to participate. There may only be room for 4-5 people up on the podium, but the rest of the crowd (formerly known as the “audience”) follows, challenges on Twitter, FriendFeed.. etc, tries out the new services simultaneously while they are being demo’d on stage, remote participants join in via the video-stream …etc. So if you want to participate, rather than just listen and being talked to, I suggest you join Ben’sDAI initiative, expand it to conferences, and put those who fail on your boycott-list. [..]
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