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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: Usenix FreeBSD BoF when?
To: obrien@antares.aero.org (Mike O'Brien)
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 05:31:41 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <199701050450.UAA20001@antares.aero.org> from "Mike O'Brien" at Jan 4, 97 08:50:20 pm
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Mike O'Brien wrote:
> 
> >         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.

	given the history, it is a very good thing!
	thanks, will we be see you at usenix?
jmb