Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 22:06:43 +0800 (TSD) From: "Victor A. Sudakov" <vas@vas.tomsk.su> To: ksmm@cybercom.net (The Classiest Man Alive) Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Users' Groups Message-ID: <199705181406.WAA00383@vas.tomsk.su> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19970517200045.0072d2e4@cybercom.net> from "The Classiest Man Alive" at "May 17, 97 04:00:45 pm"
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The Classiest Man Alive wrote: > >> Has anyone started a FreeBSD Users' Group in his/her local area? I'm > >> considering starting one, and I want ideas on the best way(s) to go about > >> that as well as an idea of how much time I'll need to commit. > > > >What would be the objectives of such a group? > > Anyway, I think the group would encompass a range of activities, from > hacking to general Unix education for PC users. But I'd primarily like to > see the FreeBSD user base expanded as well as set up local support for > current users. FreeBSD is the best secret in the free Unix community, and > it's about time to let the cat out of the bag. FreeBSD is very popular here in Russia with ISPs and universities, and Tomsk is no exception. Of the several major ISPs here, I know only one who runs RedHat Linux, the rest seem to be running FreeBSD. What I am planning to do is not organizing a Users' Group because this notion is very vague but organizing a fidonet echo conference (newsgroup) in our city dedicated to unix and freebsd as a clone of unix. May be a Users' Group will grow out of such a conference. However, if you could help me in obtaining detailed documentation, perhaps, charters and objectives of such Users' Groups to look at and take as samples, I might think of discussing the launching of such a group here in Tomsk. At present, I do not quite clearly see how it might work. We unix users here are just friends and most of us know one another personally or via fidonet. -- Victor Sudakov http://www.tomsk.su/r/persons/vas.htm
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