Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 20:50:20 -0800 From: "Mike O'Brien" <obrien@antares.aero.org> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer), hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, chat@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Usenix FreeBSD BoF when? Message-ID: <199701050450.UAA20001@antares.aero.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 04 Jan 1997 19:52:46 PST." <199701050352.TAA10598@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> no form to set one up over the web ;( > has to be done at the registration desk I did that, when I was doing USENIX things. Very hungry commercial outfits were trying to schedule BoFs months in advance which amounted to no more than live infomercials for their products. I was revulsed and insisted that BoFs be scheduled only at the conference, to preserve some semblance of spontaneity. I borrowed the BoF idea from DECUS, where it amounts to meetings organized by people around topics too new to have been scheduled into the regular program... many regularly scheduled daytime DECUS sessions are (or were) really just BoFs of long standing. I did this long before the IETF and its BoFs were a going concern, ditto Uniforum. Frankly given the alternative I'm real happy with things as they are now. Mike O'Brien
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