Netbook Imaging is almost done…

Published by Jorke Odolphi
Sep 04

We’ve had our ups and downs over the past week with imaging the netbooks for all the tech.ed attendees, I’ve been on site since Saturday and personally – if I never see one again it won’t be too soon as i’ve had a few late nights, resulting in some.. <ahem> issues.. sorry guys..

So you can get a sense of scale of our operation our professional photographer came in and shot some great photos..

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Moving on today we’re starting building the showcase with our great HP demo servers – more on that later

- jorke

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3 Responses

  1. John OBrien Says:

    What a massive task you guys have done. At least anyone now in Australia wanting to roll out Windows7 to their organisation knows who to call.
    But I gather that what makes this even harder is you physically have to unpack and plugin 2500+ netbooks, then pack them back up again. Even if that only took 5min x2500 = 26 man days…

    Posted on September 4th, 2009 at 1:01 pm

  2. Nick Hodge Says:

    John

    The logistics of setup was planned by David Haysom.

    Very early on in the project, David Haysom and Jorke had factored out the time to unpack/pack, charge etc.

    This included costings for the temporary staff, their qualifications, hourly cost.

    And the power requirements and costing for recharge prior to repacking.

    And costs for storage and security onsite. And the cost of disposal of the cardboard and plastic.

    All of these, and some others I no longer remember, have been on the project plan and in the budget spreadsheet from March 2009. We’ve tweaked these as time has progressed.

    When we review this project, that planning is what has made a success.

    Kudos Jorke and David Haysom

    Nick

    Posted on September 5th, 2009 at 3:40 pm

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