From john_re at fastmail.us Sat Aug 1 09:09:25 2009 From: john_re at fastmail.us (john_re) Date: Sat Aug 1 09:09:31 2009 Subject: Aug 1 & 16- Global VOIP Free SW HW Culture meeting, BerkeleyTIP, For Forwarding Message-ID: <1249116575.24515.1327808119@webmail.messagingengine.com> Interested in joining the friendly global Free SW HW & Culture communities in a global Voice meeting? You?re invited. :) You can join from your home, or better: get a local meeting together. Tip: a college WiFi cafe could be a great local meeting place. Make sure you have a VOIP headset! For all details, see the website (I?m leaving out many sublinks to make this email smaller). http://sites.google.com/site/berkeleytip Start by joining #berkeleytip on IRC freenode.net. We?ll help you get your VOIP connection working. :) ===== MARK YOUR CALENDARS: 1st Sat & 3rd Sunday each month. August 1 & 16. 10A - 6P Pacific US time (+7H GMT, IIRC) = 1P-9P Eastern US time = 5P - 1A GMT ? Or, come to the local meeting on the UC Berkeley campus. NOTE: SPECIAL LOCATION AUG 1: SEE BTIP WEBSITE FOR LOCATION, & RSVP TO ME OR THE BTIP LISTS. AUG 1 MEETING WILL BE 12N - 3P AT THE BTIP VOIP SERVER LOCATION ON THE UCB CAMPUS. SEE THE WEBSITE FOR ROOM LOCATION. We?ll hack on the new BTIP Asterisk VOIP server, in its presence. PLEASE RSVP TO ME (John) OR THE LIST IF YOU WANT TO MEET AT OUR USUAL LOCATION, THE FREE SPEECH CAFE, 10A-12n, 3-6PM, (otherwise i might not be there). ===== MEETING TOPICS FOR AUGUST: 1) Whatever _you_ want to work on - Email the BTIPGlobal list & let us know what your interests are. 2) Our VOIP conference server, using Asterisk. 3) Planning for year 2. ===== JOIN FOR THE START OF YEAR 2 GLOBAL MEETINGs: We had a great first year. We had local attendees from around the San Francisco Bay Area & Northern California. High School, College, Grad Students, & working & retired people attended. >From the US, people joined the meeting (IRC or VOIP) from Hawaii to Virgina, Washington to Michigan to Florida. (+ California & other states.) Globally, Sweden, Germany, England, Ireland, Iran & India (& maybe others I don?t recall right now.) :) In May Richard Stallman joined the global meeting for Q & A about free SW & HW. == YEAR 2 FOCUS: COLLEGE LOCAL MEETINGS, & AMERICAS? ANNOUNCEMENTS. Two main things I?ll focus on this year: 1) Inviting groups to join at colleges & universities - BTIP is educational. My hope: if more students learn about free SW hw & culture, some of them will then go on to become _contributors_. :) 2) I?ll try to get monthly announcements out to the biggest LUGs in the 10 largest countries in the Americas. == What would _YOU_ like to accomplish this year? Email the BTIP mail list, say ?hi?, tell us about your interests, projects & desires. ===== FOR FORWARDING - You are invited to forward this announcement wherever you think it might be appreciated. From rwatson at FreeBSD.org Thu Aug 27 10:47:23 2009 From: rwatson at FreeBSD.org (Robert Watson) Date: Thu Aug 27 10:47:29 2009 Subject: European BSD conference - 2009 in Cambridge - early bird registration still open (fwd) Message-ID: Dear FreeBSD advocacy folks: please forward out the EuroBSDCon 2009 announcement to local European (and other) BSD / UNIX / Linux user group mailing lists, and I hope to see you in Cambridge :-). Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:44:18 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson To: announce@FreeBSD.org Subject: European BSD conference - 2009 in Cambridge - early bird registration still open Dear all: I hope to welcome you to Cambridge, UK this September for EuroBSDCon 2009! We have an exciting set of talks and tutorials, and will be announcing further invited talks over the next few weeks. Early bird registration remains open until 2 September. See you here! Robert Watson FreeBSD Project EuroBSDcon 2009 Friday 18th - Sunday 20th September, University of Cambridge, UK A day of tutorials followed by 2 days of conference talks covering a wide variety of BSD related topics. This is the European BSD Community's annual event to meet, share and interact across the projects and between friends. Covering areas from networking to security, big systems and complex environments, ports to LVM, geom and kqueue, this year's line up also features: * ISC and *BSD * OpenBSD malloc * Kirk McKusick's FreeBSD 8.0 * NetBSD's LVM * faster packets in OpenBSD * How FreeBSD finds oil * Wireless Mesh networks * and more, The current talk list and draft schedule: http://2009.euroBSDcon.org Final talks will be announced by early September. The conference dinner takes place on Saturday evening and is sponsored by iXsystems. Thanks to conference sponsors The FreeBSD Foundation, iXsystems, Google, NetApp &, Exonetric. Discounted Early Bird registration runs until 2nd September. Book your place now at: http://2009.euroBSDcon.org Final programme may be subject to alteration. EuroBSDcon is a not-for-profit event open to everyone so please help spread the word online and offline. Thanks for reading! If you're interested enough to read this far, you can sign up for future announcements about EuroBSDcons by sending an email to eurobsdcon-announce-subscribe@lists.ukuug.org . Your address will only be used to contact you about European BSD events. EuroBSDcon 2009 : September 18-20th, Cambridge, England. Book your tickets here: http://www.ukuug.org/events/eurobsdcon2009/ o-