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- From: earle@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Greg Earle)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
- Subject: Tuesday BOFs considered harmful
- Followup-To: comp.org.usenix
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 02:22:43 -0800
- Organization: Jet Proulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA USA
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- Keywords: USENIX, BOFs, Conference, San Diego
-
- In article <1295@usenix.ORG> ellie@usenix.ORG (Ellie Young) writes:
- >Current Listing of Birds of a Feather Sessions Scheduled for the
- >USENIX San Diego Conference - January 25 - 29, 1993
- > (as of 1/20/93)
- >
- >TUESDAY, JANUARY 26
- >
- >6 - 8pm NIS+: An Enterprise Naming Service
- > Lou Delzompo, SunSoft, Inc.
- ...
- >8 - 10pm GNU Project (GNU's not UNIX)
- > Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation
- >
- >8 - 10pm 386 BSD Update
- > Chris Demetriou, Univ. of CA - Berkeley
- ...
- >THURSDAY, JANUARY 28
- >
- >8 - 9pm CERT Update
- > Ed DeHart, CERT
- >
- >8 - 10pm Netnews and Usenet
- > Henry Spencer, Univ. of Toronto
- >
- >8 - 10pm Sun Managers BOF
- > Steve Simmons, ISI
- >
- >9 - 10pm Internet Firewalls
- > Brent Chapman, Great Circle Associaties
-
- ARRRRRRGGH!
-
- Once again I am screwed by the "Let's have BOFs on the Tutorial days", gang ...
-
- To anyone that will listen, a small plea:
-
- Please try not to schedule BOFs on Tutorial days!!!
-
- Notice how there are no BOFs on Thursday from 6-8. I can guess that's
- probably the Reception hours (-: ... but people could leave early or elect to
- attend a BOF instead. Who needs food? (-: (He said, looking down at his own
- convex waistline ... (-: )
-
- I guess the BOFs are a victim of their own success, but please try to remember
- that not everyone shows up for the Tutorials, for many reasons. This is the
- 3rd conference in a row that has held BOFs on the night before the Technical
- program begins, also not coincidentally the night before I first arrive for
- the main conference itself. (At LISA I missed the Sun-Managers BOF for this
- very reason) Not everyone can afford to leave a day early and spend an extra
- night just to make it there by 6 PM the day before the Technical Program
- starts ...
-
- Thanks for listening,
-
- --
- - Greg Earle
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Image Processing and Applications
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