Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 11:49:30 +0100 (BST) From: Nik Clayton <nik@blueberry.co.uk> To: gpalmer@freebsd.org (Gary Palmer) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-uk Message-ID: <199604191049.LAA09076@plum.blueberry.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1863.829871408@palmer.demon.co.uk> from "Gary Palmer" at Apr 19, 96 00:50:08 am
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> Nik Clayton wrote in message ID > <199604182026.VAA01002@plum.blueberry.co.uk>: > > Just kicking around an idea here, but does anyone else feel a need for > > a freebsd-uk mailing list? > > How about a UKFUG too? I know of several people who would be > interested... I was thinking of that for the future. I don't have any idea what the take up of FreeBSD in the UK is, and figured that it's better to start with a mailing list. If enough people are interested then start up UKFUG. > > - Co-ordinating mirrors of FreeBSD information from an ftp, sup and http > > standpoint. > > I only know of FTP mirrors in the UK :-( Ditto. > I have yet to find a machine > with enough disk space & bandwidth to handle a SUP mirror :-( Although > I think B1000 could handle a WWW mirror. It could probably manage a sup as well, given what it spends most of it's day doing. Given that the mail relay for the lists is brunel.ac.uk as well this makes a moderate amount of sense. Unfortunately, I'm not there any more, so can't speak for Brunel's CC, who would be ok'ing this. > > - Meetings, get togethers, pub crawls and so on. . . > > Heh. Pub crawls eh? Serious stuff :) Absolutely. And something else that I forgot to put in my original message. If there's enough people interested, I'd really like to get some sort of shipping distribution channel for FreeBSD related stuff in the UK. I don't know how many CD-ROMs WC ships to the UK, but I would imagine some savings can be made by shipping them to one address in the UK, which then forwards them from there. Similarly, I'd like to get t-shirts, mugs and the like printed in the UK, to cut down on shipping costs. With presumably some royalty payments going back to WC/Core for use of the logo. N -- --+=[ Blueberry Hill Blueberry Design ]=+-- --+=[ http://www.blueberry.co.uk/ 1/9 Chelsea Harbour Design Centre, ]=+-- --+=[ WebMaster@blueberry.co.uk London, England, SW10 0XE ]=+-- --+=[ Don't anthropomorphize computers. They don't like it. ]ENTP
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