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[George Rosamond]

Allan Jude:
> On 2014-01-28 10:49, Dan Langille wrote:
>> On Jan 28, 2014, at 10:47 AM, George Rosamond
>> <george at ceetonetechnology.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Michael W. Lucas:
>>>> Now that we have some tickets being sold:
>>>> 
>>>> Any idea what our audience looks like? Previous years have
>>>> been BSD people, but it seems like you're really working the
>>>> outreach this year.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm working on my slides, throwing things around, and trying
>>>> to decide if I'm speaking to BSD or Linux folks. Will change
>>>> the material I present.
>>> Someone's paying attention!
>>> 
>>> I was actually going through the registrations this morning,
>>> and it's interesting that half the registrants haven't been to
>>> a NYC*BUG meeting before.
>>> 
>>> I'd guess that translates into about half are not regular BSD
>>> users, and are very much a different audience than in past
>>> years.  I wouldn't assume they are not technical, however.
>> They could live outside NYC and have never been to a meeting
>> because it's not convenient.
>> 
>> 
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> 
> That was the case for me. Definitely a BSD guy, just never been to
> New York before.
> 


Valid point, Dan... I was accounting for that in my estimate.

We have done some heavy outreach locally and that seems to be the
majority of registrants.

But this is a great discussion.  It's kind of cool how it's happening
beyond the core of direct organizers.

g