Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 02:16:26 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, "Nik Clayton" <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Cheaper conferences Not in commercial hotels would help BSD. Message-ID: <200209260016.g8Q0GQE25607@flip.jhs.private> In-Reply-To: Message from "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> of "Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:38:58 EDT." <3D8B3302.12274.4CFFF43D@localhost>
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"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.
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