EuroBSDCon 2009 pictures

[Rodrigo (ros)]

Hi all,

After this fantastic week-end in Cambridge (many thanks again for everything),
it's time to publish the pictures. I didn't take the time to sort them, so
this is for now, the full set of pictures I took.

http://www.bebik.net/cgi-bin/album.pl?album=2009EuroBSDCon

- rodrigo
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[Saifi Khan-6]

On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Rodrigo OSORIO (ros) wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> After this fantastic week-end in Cambridge (many thanks again for everything),
> it's time to publish the pictures. I didn't take the time to sort them, so
> this is for now, the full set of pictures I took.
>
> http://www.bebik.net/cgi-bin/album.pl?album=2009EuroBSDCon
>
> - rodrigo
>

Hi Rodrigo:

Thanks, the pictures are awesome.

Did you write any blog/tweet about your experiences ?

How was the interaction and enthusiasm level at the conference ?


thanks
Saifi.

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[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 .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!

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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[Saifi Khan-6]

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.

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[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Saifi Khan <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...

DES
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[Robert Watson]

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

> Saifi Khan <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 left out.  :-)  Fortunately, we have lots and lots of photos of
the Devsummit in other forms.

Robert
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[Saifi Khan-6]

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:

> Saifi Khan <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...
>
> DES
> --
> Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav - des@...
>

In that case it may be a good idea to start with some group
photo and then create a collage of photos that capture as many
folks as possible.

You may have see
 photovisi.com
 photomix.com

i'm sure it would be fun if the *BSD community pools in and
would also help folks warm up ;-)


thanks
Saifi.

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