[announce] NYC*BUG Wednesday: A Decade of NYC*BUG

[NYC*BUG Announcements]

Upcoming Meetings:

August 7: A Decade of NYC*BUG
September 4: Postgresql + ZFS on FreeBSD
October 2: One Year after Sandy

Wednesday, August 7
Suspenders Bar and Restaurant backroom
111 Broadway, Manhattan

A Decade of NYC*BUG

The New York City *BSD Group was launched in December 2003 and became
public at Linux Expo in January 2004.

We weren't sure exact what we wanted, but we knew what we *didn't* want.

We didn't aim to be just another hobbyist user group attracting the
socially inept. And nor did we aim to become another resume filling
association with a fee-based membership, filling our free evenings with
sales talks.

We wandered into unknown worlds. The BSD community has never been
advocacy-driven, preferring to let the software stand on its own two
feet. And certainly the reputation of an "uncivil *BSD society" caused
us to wonder what NYC*BUG could ultimately morph into.

And it was not always easy.

One local, long-time BSD developer welcomed us with open arms with
comments like:

they are just doing what linux group does... probably same ppl too

cu

Ten years later we can look back and be proud of our accomplishments. We
have run four NYCBSDCons and raised funds to hosting a lot of mirrors
and projects. But more importantly, we should determine what we did
right, and how we can continue NYC*BUG for another ten years.

This meeting will look at the broad picture of where NYC*BUG has been,
and hopefully draw some lessons for everyone about technical user
groups, the *BSD community and more generally how.