[NYCBSDCon] NYCBSDCon: a quick summary

[Allan Jude]

On 2014-02-11 23:00, George Rosamond wrote:
> 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.
>>
> 
> That's an interesting take.. another angle on Justin's idea.  The one
> thing I'd say is that it may be a bit too similar to this past con, when
> maybe we go in another direction.
> 
> The idea that's most enticing to me right now is something like:
> 
> "Beyond x86: BSDs on ARM and MIPS"
> 
> There's a lot of people to grab for this, including local NYC people:
> 
> - Brian C works on Octeon/MIPS for OBSD
> - Serge of MIPS who does retrobsd (.org) who'd might be interesting to
> invite
> - There's the issue to cross- versus native-builds
> - Of course Tim Kientzle would be a huge asset with his crochet
> 
> And in terms of the audience, lots of people are hacking on RPis and
> beyond.  And I notice on the various project mailing lists that more
> than just the 'usual suspects' are jumping in, including people from
> Linux land.
> 
> I'm also guessing that we could pull a decent number of college students.
> 
> I strongly think that ending with a more generic presentation ends the
> con on a good note.  Someone needs to be able to span the discussions.
> 
>> And have an afternoon snack. With caffeine. You bastards.
>>
> 
> oh, yes.. . . coffee was there, that wasn't the issue.  It was cookies.
>  I thought about it all week before the con, but it was a detail that
> got dropped.
> 
> g
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For reference, as a production server admin, I couldn't give two shits
about non x86_64 arches. ARM is a toy.


-- 
Allan Jude

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