Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 06:59:28 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: User groups update? Message-ID: <22344.814370368@time.cdrom.com>
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Hi all.. About 6 months ago, there was a lot of hoopla about forming FreeBSD user groups and such, and a few of this list's more intrepid members even went so far as to establish a few in different parts of the U.S. A successful "international conference" was also held in Aachen, and great congradulations are due Christoph Kukulies for pulling off what was apparently a very entertaining and successful event - sorry I couldn't make it!. Anyway, I just want to make sure that we're not losing steam in what is a very worth-while endevour: The formation of user groups for discussing and supporting FreeBSD. Look at it this way: We don't have a book, and as much as we'd like to we're just not going to have one for awhile. This therefore leaves email, word of mouth and user groups as the only ways of disseminating information. User groups have the added benefit of giving us hacker types something social to do occasionally, and you often learn far more from an evening of discussion with other hackers than you could in a week of reading email. For the more commercially inclined, user groups are also a great way of making potentially valuable contacts and are very worth-while indeed! Putting my money where my mouth is, I've long felt pretty bad that there's not even a FreeBSD user group here in the San Francisco bay area, where I live. I don't get the excuse to go to S.F. as often as I'd like as it is! :-) So I'd like to propose here and now that we start the San Francisco branch of the FreeBSD User Group (FUG), to meet sometime before October 30th - send me mail if you're interested in attending, and any preferred days and times. I'll set up the venue and take care of the other details. And no, I don't think we should call it the FreeBSD Users & Collected Kindred group.. :-) Jordan
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