FreeBSD-Google SoC poster

2010-03-24 Thread Robert Watson
Dear all: We now have our Google Summer of Code 2010 poster on the FreeBSD.org web site: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/2010-freebsd-gsoc.pdf If you're at a college/university, or know someone who is, please see if you can get this plastered around the place! We'll continue to update our

Re: EuroBSDCon 2009 pictures

2009-09-23 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Saifi Khan writes: Wondering if there is any group photo of FreeBSD dev [...] You'd have to get all 350 of us in the same place at the same time... I had planned to do a devsummit group photo, but there was so much else going that it got le

Re: EuroBSDCon 2009 pictures

2009-09-22 Thread Robert Watson
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 .

European BSD conference - 2009 in Cambridge - early bird registration still open (fwd)

2009-08-27 Thread Robert Watson
-- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:44:18 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson To: annou...@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

Re: freebsd-advocacy Digest, Vol 248, Issue 1

2008-08-02 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Szilveszter Adam wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 08:02:23PM +0200, Salvatore Albanese wrote: We must remind that apple experimented with UNIX many years ago and now use the Darwin distro for MAC OS X. This is a big statement! Imagine a BSD distro that is so easy even windo

[FreeBSD-Announce] Google / FreeBSD Summer of Code application period now open (fwd)

2008-03-25 Thread Robert Watson
with their own ideas that aren't on the list and propose those as well. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:31:03 + (GMT) From: Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Google tech talk: "How the FreeBSD Project Works"

2007-07-04 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Axel S. Gruner wrote: This is the same talk I've given previously at EuroBSDCon, AsiaBSDCon, UKUUG, and LinuxForum in the last six motnhs; it's significantly enhanced from the version that I gave at BSDCan last year (the first time I gave it). Nice one! I've linked it at

Re: Google tech talk: "How the FreeBSD Project Works"

2007-07-04 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Edwin Groothuis wrote: On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 08:15:23PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: While at Google a couple of weeks ago, I gave my "How the FreeBSD Project Works" talk. The video from that is now online: http://video.google.co.uk

Google tech talk: "How the FreeBSD Project Works"

2007-07-03 Thread Robert Watson
While at Google a couple of weeks ago, I gave my "How the FreeBSD Project Works" talk. The video from that is now online: http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-4400856579609253323 This is the same talk I've given previously at EuroBSDCon, AsiaBSDCon, UKUUG, and LinuxForum in the last

Latest BSDTalk interview -- FreeBSD Core Team

2007-05-27 Thread Robert Watson
Several of us sat down with Will Backman at BSDCan 2007 to discuss what the FreeBSD core team does, and the FreeBSD Project in general, as part of BSDTalk 114: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ I found I could neatly subscribe to and download from the Podcast using iTunes. There are several

ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base. (fwd)

2007-04-06 Thread Robert Watson
Now would be a great time to do some articles on this, speaking of which. :-) Pawel's e-mail doesn't make a great start for an advocacy piece because it fails to say what's good/important about ZFS, so the first task is to figure that out and construct a news article along these lines. For ex

Re: Lack of FreeBSD coverage in the UK media

2007-04-06 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Ivan Voras wrote: Robert Watson wrote: Some things that might be neat to see articles about in the next six months as 7.0 approaches: I've had quite a few hits on my little summary "what's cooking for 7.0" page, so I concurr the people are intere

Re: Lack of FreeBSD coverage in the UK media

2007-04-04 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Daniel Seuffert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't know much about the specific situation in the UK, but I can confirm BSD is not well represented in the media. "We'd like to print more BSD articles but nobody is submitting any." (Standard r

RE: Explaining FreeBSD features

2007-03-01 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: And I can tell you that absolutely nothing that I have EVER read here or on USENET has EVER held a candle to the power and majesty of the flames I used to read a decade ago the old WWIV network. (that software is available http://wwiv.sourceforge.

FYI: 6.2 Audit Article on Security Focus

2006-11-10 Thread Robert Watson
r the purposes of post-mortem analysis, intrusion detection, and run-time monitoring analysis." Federico Biancuzzi interviewed Robert Watson, founder of the TrustedBSD project, and discussed the advantages and potentialities it brings. ___ freebs