From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Mar 2 23:23:14 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 D16B814F2D for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 23:23:12 -0800 (PST) (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 XAA40023; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 23:23:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Unfurl Cc: FreeBSD Advocacy Subject: Re: Active advocacy In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 02 Mar 1999 20:54:00 PST." <19990302205400.A97649@dub.net> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 23:23:04 -0800 Message-ID: <40020.920445784@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [directed just to -advocacy] > Two years ago I lived in Tucson,AZ. After a few newsgroup posts > and a meeting or two we had a really great group going. Today they > have over 130 members. In January, after moving to Seattle, WA I > posted a request to various newsgroups and mailing lists to see if > there was any interest in a Seattle area users group. Now, two > months later, the group is getting ready for it's second meeting > and has 25 people on the mailing list. Some of these people are > newbies that are getting their "mother's milk" from others on the > list. Some of them might have given up without that initial boost. Wow, that's a nice little "success story" there - any chance of getting an article on "how to start your own user group" for the mythical and much-rumored issue #3 of the FreeBSD Newsletter? :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message