[NYCBSDCon] NYCBSDCon: a quick summary

[Michael W. Lucas]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 06:20:34PM -0500, George Rosamond wrote:
> An upcoming thread, before this list hibernates, is what the 'theme'
> should be for the next day con. . .

"The BSD Platform"

Considerations for using BSD for:

voip (asterisk/freeswitch)
web (apache or nginx)
email
database
embedded
...

Contact a known BSD guru who can speak on each -- for example, you
should get Mr. Jude to talk about FreeBSD as a heavy lifting web
server. Choose the speakers you want, then request proposals for
what's left. Involve Dru in hunting speakers; she knows everybody and
where they've hidden the bodies. ("What's that thump-thump-thump?"
"Oh, that's just the bus galumphing over Ms. Lavigne from when she got
thrown under it, no worries.")

For a final talk, get someone who can give a more generic tale that
involves BSD. If you knew someone who, say, ran the network for,
hpypothetically, a salt mine and had all kinds of good horror stories
about computing in such a ghastly environment, that would be good.

And have an afternoon snack. With caffeine. You bastards.

==ml

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