From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 15 0:38: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from eagle.phc.igs.net (eagle.phc.igs.net [207.210.17.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28D6614C21 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 00:38:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eagle@eagle.phc.igs.net) Received: from localhost (eagle@localhost) by eagle.phc.igs.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA67194; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 02:34:41 GMT (envelope-from eagle@eagle.phc.igs.net) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 02:34:40 +0000 (GMT) From: eagle To: 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 Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Davis wrote: > > > 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 -Davis there is a list on the freebsd site however its umm slightly out of date, once again if you have a freebsd user group and I havent contacted you, please send me current details.. rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message