Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 05:31:41 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: obrien@antares.aero.org (Mike O'Brien) Cc: julian@whistle.com, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, chat@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Usenix FreeBSD BoF when? Message-ID: <199701051331.FAA29361@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199701050450.UAA20001@antares.aero.org> from "Mike O'Brien" at Jan 4, 97 08:50:20 pm
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Mike O'Brien wrote: > > > no form to set one up over the web ;( > > has to be done at the registration desk > > I did that, when I was doing USENIX things. Very hungry commercial > outfits were trying to schedule BoFs months in advance which amounted > to no more than live infomercials for their products. I was revulsed > and insisted that BoFs be scheduled only at the conference, to > preserve some semblance of spontaneity. I borrowed the BoF idea > from DECUS, where it amounts to meetings organized by people around > topics too new to have been scheduled into the regular program... > many regularly scheduled daytime DECUS sessions are (or were) really just > BoFs of long standing. > > I did this long before the IETF and its BoFs were a going concern, ditto > Uniforum. > > Frankly given the alternative I'm real happy with things as they are > now. given the history, it is a very good thing! thanks, will we be see you at usenix? jmb
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