From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jul 27 5: 2: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from fling.sanbi.ac.za (fling.sanbi.ac.za [196.38.142.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 125FB37B7BC; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 05:01:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from johann by fling.sanbi.ac.za with local (Exim 3.13 #4) id 13HmMB-000NK7-00; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 14:01:43 +0200 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 14:01:43 +0200 From: Johann Visagie To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: janet@sanbi.ac.za, advocacy@freebsd.org, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, 17-18 Aug, San Diego Message-ID: <20000727140143.B41231@fling.sanbi.ac.za> References: <20000727133228.A41231@fling.sanbi.ac.za> <3374.964698160@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3374.964698160@localhost>; from jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 04:42:40AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan K. Hubbard on 2000-07-27 (Thu) at 04:42:40 -0700: > > > Should the BOSC organisers not reply (and I don't see why they wouldn't) we > > could possibly hand out material on a more casual basis? > > Very possibly, though you coming from .za means I'd have to ship the > boxes somewhere near the conference and have you guys pick them up > somehow once you entered the country - could be problematic. :) Not necessarily - the director of our institute will be staying in San Diego with a personal friend, and I'm sure that if necessary, said friend could accept a package on our behalf. > Let's hope we can do this more officially through the organizers (of both > events?) for that reason alone. That's still preferable, certainly. :-) BTW, the main ISMB conference is a different kettle of fish compared to BOSC. It is _the_ premier annual event in computational biology. It has an attached exhibition where many of the big name commercial Unix vendors will be hosting booths this year. More info at: http://ismb00.sdsc.edu/ http://ismb00.sdsc.edu/exhibitor.html -- Johann To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message