From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Oct 5 09:45:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA07398 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 09:45:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA07377 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 09:45:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA00297; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 09:44:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 09:44:19 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199810051644.JAA00297@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: frank@khmere.com, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbies user groups in LA area In-Reply-To: <36170867.16CFAC54@khmere.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 22:32:23 -0700 >From: Nathan >I want to see if their are any people in the LA area that you know of >that have a user group or are interested in starting one? Well, assuming that you're referring to Los Angeles, California (vs. the state of Louisiana; I don't recall if "LA" is a valid ISO country designator), it's possible that UUASC (UNIX Users' Assn. of Southern California) might be appropriate. (I used to be involved with the Orange County branch of UUASC before I moved to Redwood City.) I'll also put a plug in here for involvement in USENIX -- IMO, the *BSD community has a lot in common, and a lot in common with the USENIX community, and you can learn a lot obout UNIX in general this way... as well as help introduce others to FreeBSD. Further, a disproportionately high fraction of the folks who use FreeBSD also have the (dubious) "honor" of acting as (their own) sysadmins. Thus, I believe that many users of FreeBSD may well find SAGE activities (such as the LISA conferences) of (significant) interest. And in some communities, there are sysadmin (support) groups -- here in the San Francisco Bay Area, there's BayLISA (several of whose members were instrumental in getting SAGE started). david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message