Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:49:50 +0000 From: Josef El-Rayes <j.el-rayes@daemon.li> To: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> Cc: www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Event Calendar Message-ID: <20030919154950.GA13055@daemon.li> In-Reply-To: <20030919145201.GC31340@unixpages.org> References: <20030919133843.GA6683@k7.mavetju> <20030919135307.GD57727@submonkey.net> <20030919143954.GH386@FreeBSD.org> <20030919145201.GC31340@unixpages.org>
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Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 04:39:55PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > > On 2003.09.19 14:53:07 +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 11:38:43PM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > > > Hello webmasters, > > > > > > > > During a heated on irc regarding the scheduling of conferences and > > > > possible overlaps, somebody dropped the idea of an event calendar > > > > on the FreeBSD website with for example conferences and release > > > > dates on it. > > > > > > > If there are enough events, and enough people to keep it up to date, > > > I say go for it. If there aren't enough of either, please don't. > > > > The amount of events is one of the reasons why I have been postponing > > this PR a bit, but since there is talk about several BSD conferences > > next year there might be enough... > This shouldn't be an events calender for FreeBSD conferences, but more > a calender of events where there will be a FreeBSD booth or something > (I like the one on the NetBSD front page). this is the way it was intended by me as i did the patch. there is not really a need for a freebsd-only events page because these get promoted themselves but it is not easy to find out for freebsd people about freebsd booths at non-freebsd-only events like linux-events or how could someone know that there will be a freebsd booth at CCC Congress in Berlin? this is imho the sense of making such a "events" page. > I think there will be definetly enough events to fill this. we have at least 2 events/ year in small austria with freebsd booths. i am sure we will be able to fill this page with content. -josef
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