From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 14 22:30:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from uhura.cc.rochester.edu (uhura.cc.rochester.edu [128.151.224.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4808150DB for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 22:30:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dd002f@uhura.cc.rochester.edu) Received: from localhost (dd002f@localhost) by uhura.cc.rochester.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA22553 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 01:27:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 01:27:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Davis Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD PR In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Rick Hamell wrote: > How about starting local user groups? :) I'm doing it.... Take a >clue from the Linux people, have local install-a-thons... I have one >tentavily scheduled in July... Expound upon the abilities of FreeBSD to >anyone who will listen. Again, follow the lead of the Linux people, put >FreeBSD boxes in your IS department to take over mission critical >applications. At my current job I'm working on not only moving our servers >from Novell/NT to FreeBSD, BUT I'm working on porting our industry >specific software from Win95/98/DOS to FreeBSD.... Which will add another >selling point to our software and give us increased compatibility... :) >Luckily my bosses are of the 'do what you want, just as long as it dosen't >cost us money' mentallity. :) > > > > Rick > I like the user group thing, but I am not in a good position to do something too involved myself. I graduate in a year, and considering the lack of FreeBSD users on this campus (I only know of 1 other user, who is not even a student), it would be tough to get something like that off the ground before I would have to leave it behind. However, it may be worth trying regardless, if I can stir up some amount of interest. Out of curiosity, is there some sort of list of existing FreeBSD user groups? I would be interested to see if there are any nearby who may be willing to help create some interest among the students here. -Davis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message