Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 09:24:55 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Ron 'The Insane One' Rosson" <insane@oneinsane.net> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, sd_fbsd_ug@oneinsane.net Subject: Re: Preliminary Tenets Message-ID: <5699.895163095@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 May 1998 07:16:00 PDT." <19980514071600.33944@the.oneinsane.net>
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> I am trying to start a FreeBSD Users group here in San Diego. That was Six > Weeks ago. Still have had no meetings. Mostly been short tidbits of email > through an alias I have set up from my domain. If anyone has any ideas on > how I can organize and recruit my Local Users, it would be highly appreciated When I suddenly found it my job to set up a Unix conference in Dublin (Ireland) a few years back, I got very good results by spending a week calling essentially _EVERY_ I.T. company in the area (using the local equivalent of the yellow pages) and getting someone there to accept a small stack of handouts advertising the event. Come the big day, 300 people showed up and we raised $10K for the local Irish Unix User's Group. The technique is hard work, but I can recommend it. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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