[announce] NYC*BUG Upcoming

[NYC*BUG Announcements]

Next week's meeting on February 2nd is a series of short presentations 
on various BSD networking topics: from CARP to trunk/lagg, maybe some pf 
optimization and more.

If anyone's interested in participating, let admin@ know.  Nothing 
extensive, just some insights for others to benefit from for any of the 
BSDs.

The March 2nd meeting will feature Dru Lavigne--the well-known BSD 
advocate, writer, educator--presenting on BlueButton 
(http://www.bigbluebutton.org/), "open source web conferencing for 
distance learning."  Dru's blog is at http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/bsd-guru/.

Several more meetings are in the works after March, including a NetBSD 
Bugfest, in which NYC*BUG meeting attendees get directly involved in 
finding and documenting bugs in NetBSD.

Do you have an idea for a meeting?  Particularly a topic that would help 
your fellow sysadmins and developers around NYC*BUG?  Ping us at admin@ 
and give us your thoughts.

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AsiaBSDCon (.org) is around the corner in March.

BSDCan (.org) is coming in May.

If you're going to either conference, make sure you ping others on the 
talk@ list to discuss travel arrangements, etc.

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For those who haven't heard yet, NYCBSDCon 2010 raised over $14,000.  A 
remarkable feat for an open source conference.  Better yet, that profit 
meant that four checks of $3600 each went to DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, 
NetBSD and OpenBSD.  Our impact on the community goes beyond mere 
monthly meetings, and such an accomplishment illustrates that most clearly.