From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Jun 6 4:51:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from nwcst313.netaddress.usa.net (unknown [204.68.23.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A19E14CA4 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 04:51:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jesus.monroy@usa.net) Received: (qmail 25043 invoked by uid 60001); 6 Jun 1999 11:51:24 -0000 Message-ID: <19990606115124.25042.qmail@nwcst313.netaddress.usa.net> Received: from 204.68.23.58 by nwcst313 via web-mailer(M3.0.0.135) on Sun Jun 6 11:51:24 GMT 1999 Date: 6 Jun 99 04:51:24 PDT From: Jesus Monroy To: ingrid@cityscope.net, Bill Swingle Subject: Re: [Re: FreeBSDCon '99] Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer (M3.0.0.135) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I agree. I think the FreeBSDCon would be a good place that I could take other developers and convince them to move to FreeBSD. But it's a bit hard since there seems to = be no incentive for them to go. = Mind you I'm not complaining that this is not a good idea, but perhaps a "free" section should have been made available. Sure, perhaps people, like myself, with FreeBSD-wares might need to pay more to = help cover the show, but other "bigger" show tend to do something similar to this. Then again, perhaps I missed an earlier discussion on this point and someone can bring me (us) up to speed, :-) Ingrid Kast Fuller wrote: > Bill, > Only thing I see right now is that the price of a convention for pe= ople > used to getting their software FREE, is a bit high. The hotel is high,= the > booths are high, the tables are high, . My personal opinion is make it= > reasonable for ANYONE to attend with an interest in FreeBSD. You'll get= more > people and exposure. Isn't that what we want guys? > = > If I was an employee of a firm who was sending me to the conference and= the > firm was paying for it.....hey no problem. But, most of us are self-emp= loyed > and trying to make a profit. I would love to go with my tech who I'm > training, but for just one of us to go is out of our reach. > = > This conference doesn't have a track record yet, on how many people wil= l be > there, etc.. right? > This would help me figure out if it would be worth my effort to have a = booth > or table there. > = > = > Bill Swingle wrote: > = > > Hello all, > > > > I just put the finishing touches on the FreeBSDCon '99 website and ha= ve > > made it public. I wanted the lot of you to take a look at the site an= d > > see if you can find any gross errors or things that otherwise make us= > > look silly. > = > *************************************************************** > Ingrid Kast Fuller Email: ingrid@cityscope.net > CityScope Computer Services Since 1984 > CityScope Net Web: http://www.cityscope.net > 109 West Southmore > Pasadena, TX 77502-1001 1 (713)477-6161 > *************************************************************** > = > = > = > = > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message --- IN that context, it is the BSD that should be considered, not the prefix. http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/cgi-bin/newsread?34858 ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=3D= 1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message