Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 19:57:29 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ottawa: Open Source Weekend Message-ID: <20030106185729.GC64859@unixpages.org> In-Reply-To: <3E196EAD.17611.EDAE70@localhost> References: <3DFDAE82.7837.3EF23B31@localhost> <3E196EAD.17611.EDAE70@localhost>
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--M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 11:55:25AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > On 16 Dec 2002 at 10:44, Dan Langille wrote: >=20 > > Hi folks, > >=20 > > There will be an Open Source Weekend in January (http://www.osw.ca/) > > here in Ottawa. > >=20 > > I plan to be at U of O with some BSD boxes hooked up in a small=20 > > network. I'll be able to demonstrate installs, system upgrades (e.g. > > cvsup the source/port trees), port upgrades, etc. That means I'll > > have a cvsup server, a mirror of the FreeBSD website, and others. If > > anyone wishes to help with that, or has suggestions, please let me > > know. > >=20 > > Anyone wishing to create their own demonstration is asked to speak up > > now and let us know your ideas. =20 >=20 > The schedule is now available at http://www.osw.ca/schedule.html and=20 > as you can see, it's all about Linux. Why? Because nobody has=20 > stepped forward to do anything else. Any volunteers? > --=20 > Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ >=20 >=20 Well, I'm afraid I can't help you as I live in germany, but this shows a general problem we have here. I helped organizing three BSD booths this year, NetBSD and OpenBSD were always present with several people (besides the Linux-Kongress booth, but that one doesn't matter). Some days ago I came back from the 19c3 in Berlin, Germany. OpenBSD and NetBSD both had pretty big booths there with lots of stuff to show and sell. I was the only FreeBSD guy over there (unfortunately I didn't have time to prepare something), while there were several OpenBSD and NetBSD people, among them some developers. This is kind of funny, since FreeBSD had the biggest marketshare among the BSD projects. I don't really know how to motivate people to help at booths or set up their own ones, but it is a great way of helping the project without being a great coder or something. For people in Germany/Europe:=20 There is a mailing list where booths are organized/coordinated, suggestions can be made and such. bsd-events@unix-ag.uni-kl.de The subscribtion works like with the FreeBSD mailing lists, mail to majordomo@unix-ag.uni-kl.de with subscribe bsd-events in the body and so on. I really would like to see some activity in this area. - Christian --=20 http://www.unixpages.org chris@unixpages.org GPG Pub-Key : www.unixpages.org/cbrueffer.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D GPG Key ID : 0xA0ED982D --M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+GdGZbHYXjKDtmC0RAoc9AJ9Hh7D+0uNFNjquXCnrjD7ibnGJ7QCgjVnf TwmTGQhbEbWGjBvE8Y18wJI= =BK9F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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