From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 28 8:20: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05B3C37BD25 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 08:19:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bitsurfr@enteract.com) Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (bitsurfr@shell-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.41]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA07899; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 10:19:27 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bitsurfr@enteract.com) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 10:19:27 -0600 (CST) From: bitsurfer To: Brad Knowles Cc: Brett Glass , andyt , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDCon East In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Brad Knowles wrote: > I'd also submit that the weather in the Baltimore/DC area is > likely to be nicer than either Chicago or New York, if you're talking > about winter, spring, or fall. About the only time they fall down is > in summer, when the humidity and the heat can get higher than is > desirable -- of course, if you're comparing that to in-city > temperatures in Chicago or New York, I think Baltimore & DC would > still win. ;-) Heh - If it were indeed to be the late fall/windter months - I prefer it to somewhat closer to Florida - But then, Chicago has been know to be balmy in mid November (60 -70 degrees) All in all, I would prefer it NOT to be in the DC area, To crime ridden overall, and who want to be in the same area as our political dults... I sure don't... Perhaps overall, the Atlanta area is better suited... > > > Finally, for those people who might be doing some vacation in and > around the time, it's closer to both DC (if you want to do > sightseeing) and the Virginia/Maryland/Delaware/New Jersey coast -- > only about three hours away from Long Island New Jersey (where a > friend of mine owns a beach house ;-). > > > If you're serious about a BSDCon on the East Coast, I think that > the Baltimore/DC area has more going for it than any other I can > think of, and has fewer drawbacks. > > If you want to pursue setting up in the Baltimore/DC area, I can > put you in touch with some people in dc.sage (the SAGE local in the > DC area), OldBaySAGE (the SAGE local in the Baltimore area), and the > local FreeBSD User Group in that area. I used to live in the DC > area, and I still have a few contacts. > > -- > These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy > ====================================================================== > Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV > Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 > Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels > http://www.skynet.be || Belgium > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message