From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Sep 25 18:15: 4 2002 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 DDA3837B401; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 18:15:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout08.sul.t-online.com (mailout08.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 418F143E42; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 18:14:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fwd04.sul.t-online.de by mailout08.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 17uNEz-0006Eo-01; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 03:14:53 +0200 Received: from jhs.muc.de (520006753247-0001@[217.235.119.119]) by fmrl04.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 17uNEt-0GvsjAC; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 03:14:47 +0200 Received: from flip.jhs.private (flip.jhs.private [192.168.91.24]) by jhs.muc.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8Q0GuR35637; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 02:17:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@jhs.muc.de) Received: from flip.jhs.private (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by flip.jhs.private (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8Q0GQE25607; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 02:16:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@flip.jhs.private) Message-Id: <200209260016.g8Q0GQE25607@flip.jhs.private> To: "Dan Langille" Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, "Nik Clayton" Subject: Re: Cheaper conferences Not in commercial hotels would help BSD. In-Reply-To: Message from "Dan Langille" of "Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:38:58 EDT." <3D8B3302.12274.4CFFF43D@localhost> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 02:16:26 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" X-Sender: 520006753247-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Dan Langille" wrote: > On 20 Sep 2002 at 17:24, Julian Stacey wrote: > > > _Cheap_ conferences _Not_ at hotels would help BSD promotion ! > > Un-necessarily expensive conferences impede participation & interest in BSD > . > > I look forward to details about your conference. You are planning > one aren't you? Hope to, dependent on sufficient like minded local activists :-) You'r in USA ? Planning to fly to Germany ? Or casual interest ? As I wrote: ] To open one's mouth, is of course to be invited to contribute to a ] solution :-) So if there's serious interest in a European BSD ] conference in Munich, I'd willing to investigate what the local ] universities could offer during holiday periods. Munich would be a good venue: Good building & rail/road/air infrastructure; Central West European location; A healthy local BSD group http://bim.bsn.com ; several Univesities; Popular city to visit in it's own right ; Cheap hotels/pensions round the rail station near the main computer street, (Best avoid an expensive `Official Conference Hotel', & instead designate cheapish Pizzerias/ Pubs/ Coffee Bars to meet in.) Where best to discuss plan & build further support ? - A local BSD friend has asked me to also post to the advocacy@NetBSD & Munich BSD lists, & I'll do that. - He will contact a German BSD list, - But what about assorted Free/ Net/ Open BSD people in assorted other European acceptable- travelling- distance countries ? - Is there a Euro-BSD mail list ? - Nik Clayton may have a mail list from the UK/ Brighton conference ? - The Amsterdam November 2002 http://www.eurobsdcon2002.org/ does not seem to have a mail list, but just offers IRC. - I dont see a mail list at EG http://www.eurobsd.org Should we create a European- BSD- Conferences@ mail list ? To be used through the years, not one- conference- use- specific To plan dates, announce & recruit speakers etc ? What do UK & Dutch conference & other future organisers think ? Should the list be housed under majordomo@ Free/Net/OpenBSD.org, or majordomo@ some- non- partisan- All- Not- Just- One- BSD site, (EG but not necessarily bim.bsn.com) ? Julian Stacey jhs@berklix.com Computer Sys. Eng. & Unix Consultant, Munich Ihr Rauchen = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz ! Schnupftabak probieren. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message