[NYCBSDCon] For future NYCBSDCons

[George Neville-Neil]

On Feb 11, 2014, at 0:01 , Justin Sherrill <justin at shiningsilence.com> wrote:

> I have a long, long list of ideas and suggestions and things from NYCBSDCon 2014.  I figured I'd put some of them in this email so that I could cross them off:
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> - A possible future theme for something like this could be "What BSD saved me", as in what were people able to build themselves instead of having to purchase as an expensive canned product from a vendor.
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> - I liked the 'pick any two' strategy for the stickers.  It would be neat to have logos for the various BSD projects added into the sticker pile, so that people could pay a fee and pick up several different items.  This is assuming NYCBUG got the OK to use those images, which seems likely.
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> - It would be neat to get some speakers that were about tools that weren't necessarily using BSD, but were responsible for tools that happened to also run on BSD. We'd gain some diversity in speakers, plus maybe open the eyes of some developers that hadn't a reason to think beyond Linux.

I think that your last idea has a great deal of merit.

Best,
George