From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Mar 19 18:20:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA28132 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 18:20:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.atipa.com (altrox.atipa.com [208.128.22.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA28123 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 18:20:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@atipa.com) Received: (qmail 16547 invoked by uid 1017); 20 Mar 1998 02:18:21 -0000 Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 19:18:21 -0700 (MST) From: Atipa To: Troy Settle , jkh@time.cdrom.com cc: "\(ML\) FreeBSD ISP" Subject: Re: ISPCON In-Reply-To: <000101bd5312$98392300$3a4318d0@abyss.b.nu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I think that is a great idea. I'd like to discuss details with you. There is a good possibility Atipa could be a co-sponsor. We have some ISP-directed products that should be ready by then, all based on FreeBSD. Kevin On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Troy Settle wrote: > Well, I just got back from ISPCON Spring '98 in Baltimore > (www.ispcon.com). There was lots of vendors and lots of seminars (I got > to a few today, including some with Eric Allman). > > There was one seminar, which I didn't attend, that had a topic of > "Building an ISP from scratch with Linux." As I had never been to an > ISPCON, I found this suprising, and thought that it would be cool to do > the same thing for FreeBSD. > > The next ISPCON will be in September in San Jose (I believe). Would > anyone be interested in joining me in organizing a FreeBSD seminar (or > two), discussing the topics of building and ISP with FreeBSD and a > general discussion of the pros and cons of doing so? > > Also, how about manning a booth on the exhibition floor? Could we talk > Walnut Creek into sponsoring some of us (ISPs and Core Team members) to > do such a thing? Possibly giving away some premiums (cdroms, t-shirts, > etc)? > > I guess I'm volunteering to organize this if there's sufficient interest. > Please let me know if you'd be interested in helping out so I can start > thinking about what it would take to pull it all together. > > -- > Troy Settle > Network Administrator, iPlus Internet Services > http://www.i-Plus.net > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message