From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 20 20:44:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1B2D16A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 20:44:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pilchuck.reedmedia.net (pilchuck.reedmedia.net [209.166.74.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5347B43D39 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 20:44:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reed@reedmedia.net) Received: from reed by pilchuck.reedmedia.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 1BG8eD-0006eG-00; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 20:43:41 -0700 Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 20:43:40 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" To: "Julian H. Stacey" In-Reply-To: <200404171301.i3HD1ZgY010081@fire.jhs.private> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pkgsrc lecture, BSD lecture, and BSD booth at LinuxFestNorthwest, April 17 X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 03:44:16 -0000 On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > How did you get Bellingham Technical College to provide you a free > hall ? (Others of us could maybe learn & do similar in other parts > of the world ? Did you get a sponsor ? Reason I ask is I've been > long hoping to do a BSD conference in Munich Germany sometime, but > the local Universities want lots of money, & as soon as money raises > it's head, it's a nightmare: got to collect it, secure it, pay it > to halls & maybe speakers expenses, & levy sales tax on admission > fees, not make a profit or loss, all a right pain ! I don't have all the details, but you are free to join the http://www.peakserv.com/mailman/listinfo/fest-list/ list and discuss there. I believe one person from the local users group is on the faculty of the college. They started as a small event, but by third year had over 300 attend and the fourth and fifth years had over 1000 attend. I know what you mean about finding a facility. I hope to do a BSD conference in the Pacific Northwest (Seattle, Washington, USA area). I have found one company that said they have a facility we could use. If anyone wants to help, we do have a mailing list to discuss. (Let me know off-list.) Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/