There's about 90 on the BIM mail list, enough for people to
find co-helpers & start jointly promoting BSD in the
Munich area. So far it seems to have been a small core of
activists, but we'd really welcome others getting involved
too. Please either dream up your own project, or select one
from the list above, & Start Promotiing Use Of BSD In
Munich. Thanks ! (We can offer server facilities where needed
to support promotion of Berkeley In Munich).
Venues like to known approximate numbers expected, to
avoid overcrowding etc. We could use 1 or 2 Fallback Head
Counter(s) to volunteer to have his/her name(s) on
Stammtisch web page, & to mointor the list &
email their willingness to finish the count, &
confirm reservation numbers to restaurant, if the first
person reserving will be absent
Send Rainer diffs to shrink german version back to one
sheet.
More Leaflets
Hubert did a
NetBSD
leaflet. Do a leaflet with similar format titled "BSD
compared with Linux" - that was the most common question
at the BIM stand at Systems 2001 year, it would have been
very useful if we'd had a leaflet for this common FAQ. Do
it in German, English or both, whatever you the volunteer
decide, that's your decision. Sure, the answer changes
with time, so the leaflet will need you as a maintainer,
or someone else to take over, & sure the info is on
web & in magazines, but something A4, cheap to print,
& copyright available for us to print would be a
useful resource, worldwide if we do an English version.
If you do it in German, one of will translate it for you.
Do a leaflet for OpenBSD, or get a URL from OpenBSD mail
list.
Ask
Julian
& Gary for experience, we've done it several times.
New faces please ! OK, meantime the
Elektronik Boerse has passed into history,
but other similar smaller things still occur. Inc the
Zentrix annual autumn meet, etc. Or check the
bsd-events_ERASE@unix-ag.uni-kl.de list to see what
event are on in Europe.
Hunt opportunities for a sponsored stand
(as
Julian did
for
Systems 2001 & Hubert did
up North), (& DaNiel Ettle just did for Systems
2004), promote acitivity, take whatever
responsibility/initiative is needed.
Assemble list of tentative half/1 day stand
volunteers
ready for next expo, like the last BIM stand at "Systems
2001". (It helps to have a list before approaching stand
sponsor).
2nd Expo Co-Ordinator
2nd person in parallel to Josef (in case he's ill/away
next time) for maintaining co-ordinating notes page for
next expo, as per last year's
Systems
2001
Volunteers Needed to help promote & run a public BSD
installation marathon (hosted in a Munich book shop, or
wherever else you find space).
Arrange To Supply CDROMs To Libraries
There's a CD library in the Gasteig - someone should feed
it & other libraries/museums etc/whatever, BSD CDs,
either your old one immediately you get a new one, or a
nicely labelled & boxed generic downloaded &
burnt one. (Here are
generic
labels & boxes for FreeBSD, Hubert passes surplus
NetBSD CDs via me (
Julian), so I'll try
to see to that, but we could use OpenBSD CDs, & also
need someone to scope the city &/or Univ. libraries
& decide which libraries are best to supply EG
Gasteig or Universities etc ?)
Gallery Of Faces To Help Stammtisch Recognition
This one may be argued about, so only include thise who
agree to be included: Bring digital camera to Stammtisch
& build a web page of alphabetic list of names &
faces for recognition. Not everyone wants faces on web,
but don't let the obstructors put you off, simply don't
ake their picture, & don't include them, only put up
those that agree. The times I've heard someone say after
a Stammtisch, aprox: ~Who was the guy with the green
jumper ?~ I want to mail him about ....~ A photo gallery
would solve that.
Supply German Translations for updates to these BIM
page
Please supply in
diff -c format, applicable to the
latest
bim.html.m4 master source. (& alert
Julian first that
your doing it, so he doesn't change too much content at
same time as you'r translating.)
Supply URLs For People
I would like to add clickable URLs (either mailto or
href, your choice) to each person named on BIM pages, but
I want permission before I do it, so BIM people, if you
are listed on BIM pages, please mail
Julian your URL,
thanks.
Whatever else you choose:
Please don't wait to be asked, please volunteer ideas,
recruit helpers if needed, & then implement it ! If
you need BIM computer resources (EG logins, new sub web
pages on BIM servers etc) to help contribute, ask
Julian for what
you need.