On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Saifi Khan wrote: > > > Thanks, the pictures are awesome. > > > > Did you write any blog/tweet about your experiences ? > > > > How was the interaction and enthusiasm level at the conference ? > > Probably in appropriate to generalize, but this was the largest ever FreeBSD > developer summit in .EU (70 or so attendees), and EuroBSDCon came in around > 180 attendees, which is up from last year (don't have precise numbers). Our > conference dinner, sponsored by iXsystems, (photos of Clare college in the > various collections) was sold out at 150 with a waiting list. > > We did have some trouble fund-raising for the conference, as a number of > companies we approached reported that they currently had travel/conference > freezes due to the economy. However, it being a poor economic year that > didn't seem to prevent people from having a good time (although it likely did > limit attendees from further way). > > Fairly soon, we should have slides, papers, and audio recordings of many of > the sessions on the UKUUG web site, and it looks like the Karlsruhe folk are > already warming up for EuroBSDCon 2010 :-). > > For those of us in the UK, I think this is a good moment to remind ourselves > that there is a lot of BSD-related work, BSD-based companies, and BSD > development in the UK (especially FreeBSD). I know I chatted with many other > folk from the UK who all basically said "you know, we should do this more > often", so perhaps this will trigger more regular UK-based BSD events! >
Thanks Robert for the informative mail. Wondering if there is any group photo of FreeBSD dev, something along the lines of http://www.postgresql.org/files/community/conference06/conference_group.jpg Would you know ? Is the BSD-related work in UK, about new product development on BSD platform or a enterprise systems maintenance stuff ? Certainly more events will help promote *BSD, which is a good thing. thanks Saifi. _______________________________________________ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
