Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 13:06:35 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> Cc: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>, advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ottawa: Open Source Weekend Message-ID: <3E19D3BB.7060100@centtech.com> References: <3DFDAE82.7837.3EF23B31@localhost> <3E196EAD.17611.EDAE70@localhost> <20030106185729.GC64859@unixpages.org>
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Christian Brueffer wrote: > > Well, I'm afraid I can't help you as I live in germany, but this shows > a general problem we have here. > > I helped organizing three BSD booths this year, NetBSD and OpenBSD > were always present with several people (besides the Linux-Kongress > booth, but that one doesn't matter). > Some days ago I came back from the 19c3 in Berlin, Germany. OpenBSD > and NetBSD both had pretty big booths there with lots of stuff to > show and sell. > I was the only FreeBSD guy over there (unfortunately I didn't have > time to prepare something), while there were several OpenBSD and > NetBSD people, among them some developers. > > This is kind of funny, since FreeBSD had the biggest marketshare > among the BSD projects. > > I don't really know how to motivate people to help at booths or > set up their own ones, but it is a great way of helping the project > without being a great coder or something. This is a big problem.. I'm in Texas, and won't be able to fly out there.. Maybe we need a list of volunteers for this sort of thing, and their locations (generally). That way, when one of us is setting up a booth, or for any other reason, we can call on those near us.. What does everyone think about that? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Beware the fury of a patient man. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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