[NYCBSDCon] One idea
George Rosamond
george at ceetonetechnology.com
Wed Sep 11 13:46:00 EDT 2013
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
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