Manchester BSD UG - Tonight!

[Julian H. Stacey]

"Ingrid Kast Fuller" wrote:
> Good Luck with your FreeBSD group in England.  I started ours in Houston,
> Texas in March of 1999. I can tell you there were times when I was sitting
> alone! Some of the Geeks have families and guess what you'll be second
> fiddle to them, family comes first!  The best meetings we had were when we
> had speaker.  Keep the subject matter interesting and who knows! Now we just
> maintain a mailing list.  (www.houfug.org)

Most technology clubs in Munich get a much higher turn out when
there's a tech talk/ presentation associated, & not just the normal
monthly drinking.  I guess finding speakers wouldn't be so hard if
we organisers were smarter about finding BSD related presentations
others have done somewhere in the world, & then identifying someone
localy knowledgeable in that area to represent it.

It's  an offputting amount of work to prepare a presentation, unpaid.
Easier if someone else has prepared it already, nicer feeling if
preparing, knowing peple globaly might benefit, not just localy ?.
Maybe we should be co-operating more, a central repository or some
such.  At least BAFUG make their videos fetchable, that's a start
:-)

PS for group Berkeley in Munich: http://berklix.org/bim/ 

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Julian Stacey.  Consultant Unix Net & Sys. Eng., Munich.  http://berklix.com
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