[NYCBSDCon] One idea

[George Rosamond]

Brian Callahan:
> On 9/11/2013 1:14 PM, George Rosamond wrote:
>>
>>
>> This should be the forum for tossing around ideas.. too much is
>> happening offlist and informally, and will be forgotten and lost.
>>
>> So based on some input from Patrick, wouldn't it be useful to have a
>> period (lunch?) when there are stations setup around the meeting space.
>>
>> A dev/user has a fat sign over there head with a particular topic.
>>
>> I imagine...
>>
>> "Hi, I'm Joe Blow.  This is the ARM FreeBSD table.  This is how you use
>> crochet and edit the configs.  If you have a mSD or SD card, I can dd an
>> image for you.  Here is a BBone to test if you want to take a look
>> around.  I'm not a dev.  I can barely tie my own shoes.  But I got it
>> working"
>>
>> "Hi, I'm Jill Blow.  I'm a bad-ass OBSD dev focused on octeon.  Do you
>> want to do something useful with your octeon hardware at home?  This is
>> what I'm working on.  We can talk more on this list/irc/whatever.  Oh,
>> you have a few pallets of octeon hardware to donate?  great."
>>
> 
> Thank you for making me a woman :D

I wasn't talking about *you*... rather, jasper@ !

> 
>> "Hi, I'm no one in particular.  Do you have *any* hardware to donate or
>> which you can get fat discounts on?  Please sign here."
>>
>> We put out a call for volunteers for it, have some prearranged, and go
>> from there.  Sort of like some middle school science expose.
>>
>> It would open things up a bit.  We could also do them as lightning
>> sessions, and force group by group to do the circuit.
>>
>> g
>>
> 
> I would still like having people walk away with ready to go images with
> tons of services and dev tools. I know that we can't guarantee they'll
> be used but we never know who the next big user/promoter/dev is. We
> could even get a bunch of cards for people who don't bring their own and
> sell them basically at card cost (plus maybe $1) and add whatever money
> we make on it back into the profits.


Exactly what I was thinking.  An image for a $1...

And the issue of money.

g