NYC-Tokyo Connection

[Marc Spitzer]

Ike,

Glad to hear it went well.

Marc

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Isaac (.ike) Levy <
ike at blackskyresearch.net> wrote:

> A followup,
>
> On Jan 15, 2014, at 2:19 AM, Isaac (.ike) Levy <ike at blackskyresearch.net>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > For the new year, I started working on a pfSense Japanese translation,
> and one thing led to another here...
> >
> > Just a quick heads up, for anyone who *might* be in Tokyo earlier than
> AsiaBSDCon,
> >
> >  Tokyo FreeBSD Benkyokai Group, Feb. 17, 2014
> >  "第26回 FreeBSD勉強会"
> >  "pfSense Practical Experiences: from home routers, to High-Availability
> Datacenter Deployments"
> >  <http://atnd.org/events/47084>
> >
> > Daichi Goto, a long time committer, organizes this meeting on a regular
> basis.  While the talk will be about pfSense in various contexts, I've also
> been asked to speak about NYC*BUG- and hope to build some bridges between
> Tokyo and NYC!
> >
> > I'm REALLY looking foreword to learning more about what *BSD things are
> happening in Tokyo, I'll be sure to report back to list...
> >
> > Best,
> > .ike
>
> Folks, Monday night in Tokyo was pretty amazing, I found a ton of parity
> between NYC*BUG and the FreeBSD Benkyokai Group.  Amazing hospitality,
> everyone was extremely warm and engaging.  Some FreeBSD and NetBSD
> committers were in attendance, and when I asked for a show of hands, about
> half the room used OpenBSD too.
>
> I presented an updated version of my last pfSense talk (NYC*BUG 2010), and
> gave update status on the Japanese UI translation project, (which is 80%
> complete, thanks to one serious volunteer...)  Then, I *totally butchered*
> George's 10 years of NYC*BUG talk, cramming it into 10 minutes.  Also
> brought in some ALIX boards loaded for live demos, and for people to mess
> around with- the boards were extremely popular...
>
> I posted my slides and notes online here:
>   http://blackskyresearch.net/26-FreeBSD-Benkyokai/
>
> 90 minutes later, nobody was asleep :)  It was an excellent crowd, and a
> really good time.  Drinks and yakitori followed.
>
> There are small *BSD groups meeting like this ALL OVER JAPAN!  Seriously.
>  It's intense.  See y'all stateside soon!
>
> Rocket-
> .ike
>
>
>
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