[NYCBSDCon] Con Theme Description, (for prospective speakers)

[Bill Totman]

On 11/5/13, 5:56 PM, "George Rosamond" <george at ceetonetechnology.com>
wrote:


>Isaac (.ike) Levy:
>> 
>> On November 5, 2013 02:14:16 PM EST, Okan Demirmen <okan at demirmen.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Isaac (.ike) Levy
>>> <ike at blackskyresearch.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> While prepping to reach out to some NetBSD folks, I wrote this up-
>>>> I'd love
>>>> some collective OK on it.  (I'd also love any
>>>>thoughts/input/direction.)
>>>
>>> Excellent!  Posted here: http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2014/speakers.html
>> 
>
>Ha!  I was forking this thread from the other... but I see others did :)
>
>Comments inline below.
>
>> Slammin.
>> 
>> Rocket-
>> .ike
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> A moment to describe the theme of NYC*BSDCON this year, "The BSDs in
>>>> Production".
>>>>
>>>> Intended Audience (for Speakers):
>>>> Along with bringing the BSD community together, this conference aims
>>>>to
>>>> reach out beyond the *BSD community.  We aim to expose the richness,
>>>> maturity, clarity, and influential nature of BSD UNIX to a wider
>>>> technical
>>>> audience.  This is not manifest as pandering to 'convert' Linux
>>>> users, but
>>>> instead, to set a tone and example which simply exposes the greatness
>>>> of the
>>>> BSD family of operating systems.
>
>I like the tone of that last line, but I would propose changing to:
>
>"This is not a canned advocacy event, but rather a production-centric
>snapshot of the utility and relevance of the BSD family of operating
>systems."
>
>>>>
>>>> The expected audience may be comprised of Linux and Solaris veterans,
>>>>as
>>>> well as *BSD people, OS Users and Developers alike.  With that, it's
>>>> important to keep in mind that your presentation will be heard by
>>>> technical
>>>> people who may never have actually used BSD UNIX, or at least not
>>>> recently.
>
>..."You presentation should aim to show the unique abilities of BSD
>software to 'scratch itches', as relevant to technical merits,
>licensing, and so on."

+1 ‘scratch itches’

>
>Good stuff Ike.  Really.

+1

>
>g
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