From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Nov 20 9:43:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from vnode.vmunix.com (vnode.vmunix.com [209.112.4.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E474B14BE1 for ; Sat, 20 Nov 1999 09:43:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chrisc@vmunix.com) Received: from localhost (chrisc@localhost) by vnode.vmunix.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA25287; Sat, 20 Nov 1999 12:43:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 12:43:37 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Coleman To: Christopher Masto Cc: Pat Lynch , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, members@funy.org Subject: Re: The Bazaar In-Reply-To: <19991120122909.A20032@netmonger.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a flier available for download in PDF format. http://www.vmunix.com/~chrisc/DNflyer.pdf Chris Coleman Daemon News Editor in Chief http://www.daemonnews.org Bringing BSD together On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Christopher Masto wrote: > On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 08:58:42AM -0500, Pat Lynch wrote: > > Thanks to whoever on this list posted about the bazaar conference. > > > > Having been busy I haven;t really had the time to actively search out > > advocacy efforts here in NYC. > > > > The long and short of it is this. We really didn;t know about this until > > last night, but I wrote Lydia Bennett (one of the conference chairs) and > > possibly got a booth for FUNY (read as BSD users of New York, no longer > > "FreeBSD Users of New York") at the conference. I'm not sure of the status > > of that, will probably fnd out this week. > > > > If we do, I'll need volunteers. > > I will definately be at the show for at least some amount of time to > wander around the exhibit hall. Not that they've had it yet, but my > understanding's been that we're talking about a trade show, not a > technical conference. > > To atone for my sins of handing out free Linux CDs at a previous trade > show, I will of course be glad to sit behind a table and spread the > gospel according to Chuck. > > If we manage to get a table, BTW (and I don't think that should be a > big problem) be sure to check into the possibility of power and > network connections. The "big" shows charge a fortune for such > extravagance, and I wouldn't be suprised if that's the Javits Center > policy (union labor) and even if the bizarre organizers luv us to > death we may still have to run our laptops on battery and CDPD. > > Some consideration should also be given (is that passive enough that > I'm clearly not volunteering?) to the production of paper that says > stuff about us and our favorite operating systems. People walk around > these shows in a zombified stupor and put one of everything into their > IBM bags. > -- > Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications > chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net > > Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message