[nycbug-talk] linuxexpo

[Isaac Levy]

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Hello George, All,

A quick shout out from the Lower East Side Mac Unix Users Group 
(lesmuug)- was a real pleasure to meet a few of yall' today at the 
BSDmall booth!

On behalf of lesmuug, I will be coming tomorrow as the unofficial 
lesmuug ambassador, to cheer and participate, as yall' break the 
champagne on the bow for nycbug tomorrow!

> they were enthusiastic about our outreaching to
> the apple world.

Indeed- like meeting a cousin that we didn't know existed, looking 
foreword to good times and sharing!

Rocket,
.ike

http://lesmuug.org




On Jan 21, 2004, at 11:43 PM, G. Rosamond wrote:

> today illustrated the increasing relevance of bsd in a way i haven't
> seen in years.
>
> we were regularly *mobbed* by people gazing, asking questions, 
> listening
> carefully.
>
> the most interesting point to me was the many people who approached the
> table and said, "i was using redhat, but the licensing change isn't
> making me happy.  so i decided to look at xxxbsd. . ."
>
> the "old" stalwart of funy (free)bsd users of new york was with us
> regularly, and had much insight into the operation of a bsd user group.
> additionally, someone i spoke to briefly via freebsd-advocacy was there
> all day dealing with questions.
>
> we now have over sixty users on the mailing list.
>
> in years past, we had some downtime.  this year, we barely had any.
> redhat, sco, bsd reputation. . .it was a combination of many factors 
> i'm
> sure.  but the important thing is that we are able to address people's
> questions about the bsd family.
>
> jan from netbsd brought some dated but awesome netbsd tshirts we are
> selling for $15.  dan from bsdcan has the brochures for the ottawa
> convention in may, which some of us are planning to attend.  we also 
> met
> a group of mac/unix users who meet monthly, even if the date falls on
> xmas and turkey day.  they were enthusiastic about our outreaching to
> the apple world.
>
> some of us have also had some discussions with the two visiting linux
> tag (one of the most important open source conferences around) from
> germany.  they also created knoppix, the cd-bootable version of linux.
> we should consider the notion of an open source conference in nyc at
> some point, with the linux user groups, new york php, etc, as this is
> probably the last year for linuxexpo and macworld in nyc.  they're both
> most likely moving to boston.
>
> i want to encourage all to hang out at the table and get involved.  we
> are making a splash, even though we may have the worst table location 
> in
> the place.  and didn't receive the most recent netbsd and openbsd cd's.
> and freebsd 5.2 isn't out yet.
>
> looking forward to the bof tomorrow.  we'll have a speaker from 
> bsdmall,
> wasabi, michael from nycbug and wes.
>
> be there and get involved.
>
> g
>
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