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Date:      Tue, 02 Mar 1999 23:23:04 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
To:        Unfurl <unfurl@dub.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Advocacy <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Active advocacy 
Message-ID:  <40020.920445784@zippy.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Mar 1999 20:54:00 PST." <19990302205400.A97649@dub.net> 

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> Two years ago I lived in Tucson,AZ. After a few newsgroup posts
> and a meeting or two we had a really great group going. Today they
> have over 130 members.  In January, after moving to Seattle, WA I
> posted a request to various newsgroups and mailing lists to see if
> there was any interest in a Seattle area users group. Now, two
> months later, the group is getting ready for it's second meeting
> and has 25 people on the mailing list. Some of these people are
> newbies that are getting their "mother's milk" from others on the
> list. Some of them might have given up without that initial boost.

Wow, that's a nice little "success story" there - any chance of
getting an article on "how to start your own user group" for the
mythical and much-rumored issue #3 of the FreeBSD Newsletter? :)

- Jordan


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