Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 13:21:09 -0400 From: Adam Turoff <ziggy@panix.com> To: Julian Stacey <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cheaper conferences Not in commercial hotels would help BSD. Message-ID: <20020920172109.GF5962@panix.com> In-Reply-To: <200209201524.g8KFOgR79586@flip.jhs.private> References: <200209201524.g8KFOgR79586@flip.jhs.private>
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On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 05:24:42PM +0200, Julian Stacey wrote: > _Cheap_ conferences _Not_ at hotels would help BSD promotion ! > Un-necessarily expensive conferences impede participation & interest in BSD. Yet Another Society (http://www.yetanother.org/) has been doing this in the Perl community since 1999. It's been quite successful, with two conferences per year (Europe and eastern North America) for the last few years. The EuroBSD Con last September was somewhat similar, but held in a hotel IIRC for various reasons. (Nik? Care to comment?) The model is there. It's been proven successful in at least one community. It'll happen with BSD, but the limiting factors are (1) knowledge about conference planning, and (2) volunteers to actually do the work of hosting a conference. ;-) Z. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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