From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 6 17:49:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA20230 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 17:49:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA20224; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 17:49:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by root.com (8.7.6/8.6.5) with SMTP id RAA04511; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 17:47:37 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199701070147.RAA04511@root.com> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.root.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Terry Lambert cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, chat@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Usenix FreeBSD BoF when? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 Jan 1997 18:09:18 MST." <199701070109.SAA13211@phaeton.artisoft.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 17:47:37 -0800 Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> >and will take place in Salons 3 and 4 (seating for 100 people so come early) >> >> This probably won't be big enough. It was standing room only at the last >> one, and we probably could have seated at least 150 people. I'm expecting >> things to be even larger with a need for at least 200 seats. > >Invite the press... at least Bootle and Pournelle (Bootle will be thre; >I don't know about Pournelle). That high an attendance of a "spontaneous" >get-together is likely to merit a mention in their column... Oh, I doubt it. The Linux BOF last year had more than 500 in attendance. They had their BOF in The Grand Ballroom...I was thinking last year that we should have done the same thing. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project