I figured I'd go this year no matter what - I love where I live, but I don't have many "kindred spirits" here for geek stuff.
If I mention GNOME, everyone would think I meant little people. Linux, not sure what they'd think, BSD... Well, they'd probably raise an eyebrow or something!
So count me in, and sure, if Ryan or anyone else wants to go as well - great!
Brett
On Feb 20, 2014 9:04 AM, "Brett Legree" <brett legree gmail com> wrote:
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> I live about two hours from Ottawa and go regularly.
>
> I was going to go to BSDCan last year, but it didn't work out.
>
> I would love to go, chat about GNOME with the BSD folks (I tinker with FreeBSD and OpenBSD a bit).
>
> I could hand out swag etc., if provided.
>That would be awesome! Let's figure out how we can do that. Maybe figure out a list of topics to talk about? Maybe Ryan might also be interested?
> Certainly if anyone else wanted to attend, I'd love the company!
>
> Brett
>
> On Feb 20, 2014 11:20 AM, "Sriram Ramkrishna" <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:
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>> So, with all this talk about BSD, it seems that we do not really do
>> much engagement with the BSD. Part of this is that socially we don't
>> really mix a lot with the BSD folks. You go to any linux related
>> conference and you'll generally find all kinds of people.
>>
>> Would people be interested in going to a BSD conference? What about
>> presenting a paper, or talking with BSD kernel folks about
>> requirements about running GNOME? It maybe that we don't simply
>> engage so they have no idea what we want.
>>
>> I just feel that we need to make an effort of some sort. Here is the
>> cloest one in the U.S.:
>>
>> http://www.bsdcan.org/2014/
>>
>> There is another asia and europe one later this year.
>>
>> sri
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