From owner-freebsd-user-groups@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 1 16:08:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-user-groups@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-user-groups@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A89D616A4DF for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 16:08:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from thin.berklix.org (thin.berklix.org [194.246.123.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 963E943D6D for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 16:08:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from js.berklix.net (p549A5FCB.dip.t-dialin.net [84.154.95.203]) (authenticated bits=128) by thin.berklix.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k71G7n1P060051; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 18:07:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from fire.jhs.private (fire.jhs.private [192.168.91.41]) by js.berklix.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k71G7doE005402; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 18:07:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from fire.jhs.private (localhost.jhs.private [127.0.0.1]) by fire.jhs.private (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k71G7doN019031; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 18:07:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@fire.jhs.private) Message-Id: <200608011607.k71G7doN019031@fire.jhs.private> To: "Ingrid Kast Fuller" In-Reply-To: Message from "Ingrid Kast Fuller" of "Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:17:39 CDT." <200608011517.k71FHxS8076756@ns1.cityscope.net> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 18:07:39 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" Cc: 'Paul Robinson' , freebsd-user-groups@freebsd.org, 'freebsd users' , manchester@bsdgroups.org.uk Subject: Re: Manchester BSD UG - Tonight! X-BeenThere: freebsd-user-groups@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User Group Coordination List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:08:10 -0000 "Ingrid Kast Fuller" wrote: > Good Luck with your FreeBSD group in England. I started ours in Houston, > Texas in March of 1999. I can tell you there were times when I was sitting > alone! Some of the Geeks have families and guess what you'll be second > fiddle to them, family comes first! The best meetings we had were when we > had speaker. Keep the subject matter interesting and who knows! Now we just > maintain a mailing list. (www.houfug.org) Most technology clubs in Munich get a much higher turn out when there's a tech talk/ presentation associated, & not just the normal monthly drinking. I guess finding speakers wouldn't be so hard if we organisers were smarter about finding BSD related presentations others have done somewhere in the world, & then identifying someone localy knowledgeable in that area to represent it. It's an offputting amount of work to prepare a presentation, unpaid. Easier if someone else has prepared it already, nicer feeling if preparing, knowing peple globaly might benefit, not just localy ?. Maybe we should be co-operating more, a central repository or some such. At least BAFUG make their videos fetchable, that's a start :-) PS for group Berkeley in Munich: http://berklix.org/bim/ -- Julian Stacey. Consultant Unix Net & Sys. Eng., Munich. http://berklix.com Mail in Ascii, HTML=spam. Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz.