From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 19 08:49:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06E7A16A4B3; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 08:49:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from daemon.li (daemon.li [213.203.244.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB4B843FE1; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 08:49:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from josef@daemon.li) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by daemon.li with local; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:49:50 +0000 Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:49:50 +0000 From: Josef El-Rayes To: Christian Brueffer Message-ID: <20030919154950.GA13055@daemon.li> References: <20030919133843.GA6683@k7.mavetju> <20030919135307.GD57727@submonkey.net> <20030919143954.GH386@FreeBSD.org> <20030919145201.GC31340@unixpages.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030919145201.GC31340@unixpages.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Reply-Path: j.el-rayes@daemon.li cc: Ceri Davies cc: edwin@freebsd.org cc: "Simon L. Nielsen" cc: www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Event Calendar X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: j.el-rayes@daemon.li List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:49:55 -0000 Christian Brueffer wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 04:39:55PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > > On 2003.09.19 14:53:07 +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 11:38:43PM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > > > Hello webmasters, > > > > > > > > During a heated on irc regarding the scheduling of conferences and > > > > possible overlaps, somebody dropped the idea of an event calendar > > > > on the FreeBSD website with for example conferences and release > > > > dates on it. > > > > > > > If there are enough events, and enough people to keep it up to date, > > > I say go for it. If there aren't enough of either, please don't. > > > > The amount of events is one of the reasons why I have been postponing > > this PR a bit, but since there is talk about several BSD conferences > > next year there might be enough... > This shouldn't be an events calender for FreeBSD conferences, but more > a calender of events where there will be a FreeBSD booth or something > (I like the one on the NetBSD front page). this is the way it was intended by me as i did the patch. there is not really a need for a freebsd-only events page because these get promoted themselves but it is not easy to find out for freebsd people about freebsd booths at non-freebsd-only events like linux-events or how could someone know that there will be a freebsd booth at CCC Congress in Berlin? this is imho the sense of making such a "events" page. > I think there will be definetly enough events to fill this. we have at least 2 events/ year in small austria with freebsd booths. i am sure we will be able to fill this page with content. -josef