From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed May 12 16:15:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6490615675 for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 16:15:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA66493; Wed, 12 May 1999 16:12:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Bill Fumerola Cc: Joseph Scott , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: O'Reilly Open Source Con in Aug 99, BSD? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 May 1999 10:35:52 EDT." Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:12:42 -0700 Message-ID: <66490.926550762@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Tue, 11 May 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Unfortunately, we couldn't get the people and so we won't be involved > > in any significant sense. I'd already called in all my markers and > > emptied the speaker barrel for the USENIX technical conference and > > there just wasn't anything left over for O'Reilly. > > Fly me there, and I'll talk about anything you want. :> Did I forget to mention that O'Reilly doesn't pay speaker expenses? That makes it somewhat more difficult to find people. :( Not to pick on O'Reilly - this appears to be something of an emerging trend. About 75% of the invites I get to speak at conferences are "come on your own nickle please, we have no budget for speaker subsidies" and if Walnut Creek CDROM weren't paying the bill, I would speak far less often. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message