From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Jan 6 11: 6:39 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D07C737B401 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 11:06:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA77943EB2 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 11:06:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) id h06J6aRw021606; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 13:06:36 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (electron.centtech.com [204.177.173.173]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h06J6YNG021597; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 13:06:34 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <3E19D3BB.7060100@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 13:06:35 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christian Brueffer Cc: Dan Langille , advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ottawa: Open Source Weekend References: <3DFDAE82.7837.3EF23B31@localhost> <3E196EAD.17611.EDAE70@localhost> <20030106185729.GC64859@unixpages.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christian Brueffer wrote: > > Well, I'm afraid I can't help you as I live in germany, but this shows > a general problem we have here. > > I helped organizing three BSD booths this year, NetBSD and OpenBSD > were always present with several people (besides the Linux-Kongress > booth, but that one doesn't matter). > Some days ago I came back from the 19c3 in Berlin, Germany. OpenBSD > and NetBSD both had pretty big booths there with lots of stuff to > show and sell. > I was the only FreeBSD guy over there (unfortunately I didn't have > time to prepare something), while there were several OpenBSD and > NetBSD people, among them some developers. > > This is kind of funny, since FreeBSD had the biggest marketshare > among the BSD projects. > > I don't really know how to motivate people to help at booths or > set up their own ones, but it is a great way of helping the project > without being a great coder or something. This is a big problem.. I'm in Texas, and won't be able to fly out there.. Maybe we need a list of volunteers for this sort of thing, and their locations (generally). That way, when one of us is setting up a booth, or for any other reason, we can call on those near us.. What does everyone think about that? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Beware the fury of a patient man. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message