Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 16:59:48 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: john <zaph0d@sweb.com> Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, Mark Dunham <markd@csh.rit.edu>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *BSD or FreeBSD user groups Message-ID: <19990923165948.B42271@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990923030355.10161A-100000@abatis.sweb.com> References: <19990923090004.C6137@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990923030355.10161A-100000@abatis.sweb.com>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Thursday, 23 September 1999 at 3:04:28 -0400, john wrote: > On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > >> Mark Dunham (markd@csh.rit.edu) [990923 08:37]: >>> My fellow advocates, >>> >>> Myself and some friends are planning on starting a users group in >>> our area. ( Rochester, NY for those interested. ) We are still >>> debating whether to make it a FreeBSD users group, or a general BSD >>> users group. I'm wondering if having a *BSD group will result in a >>> users group less focused and hence less capable of addressing >>> members needs and such. Does anyone out there have experience on >>> the FreeBSD vs. *BSD users group issue? Any thoughts are welcome. >> >> Personally I don't think being a BSD UG will be causing less-focused >> meetings. In fact I believe quite the opposite. NetBSD and OpenBSD do >> certain things for different reasons and it might be beneficial to >> listen to their point of view and have them listen to FreeBSD's. >> >> That way, everyone in general gets more clueful about the whole BSD >> issue, which can never be bad, no? > > Well, > > Aside from this issue.. and apologies if this has already been addressed. > But if one is to be started, is there some sort of offical listing out > there people can refer to for their local area? Yes, take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#user. If you're running a group which isn't mentioned there, please send me details and I'll add them. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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