[zephyr-announce] Sun 20 Feb Zephyr mini-conference call for RSVPs and talks

[Kevin Riggle]

tl;dr  Zephyr mini-conference, Sunday, February 20, around MIT.  RSVP
and submit talk topics to zephyr-organizers at mit.edu by Sunday, 
February 6.  Please forward this mail to anyone you think would be 
interested.


Hi people interested in Zephyr,

We (meaning Karl Ramm, current Zephyr maintainer, and me as organizer)
are trying to get together a small Zephyr conference thing in Cambridge,
Massachusetts on the Sunday of Presidents' Day weekend, February 20, 
2011.  Never having done this before, we have no idea how many people 
will be interested or show up, so if you will be coming, I'm requesting
you RSVP to zephyr-organizers at mit.edu by no later than Sunday, February
6, so I have time to find a large enough space for us on or around 
MIT's campus.  

We're also looking for people to give short, not especially formal 
talks, probably no more than 30 minutes for the talk itself and 30 
minutes for discussion.  (The topics Karl suggested he might talk about
were "Future protocol directions," "NATs: threat or menace?", and 
"Things I would like someone else to do with zwgc".)  To that end, if 
you have something you'd like to talk about, please send e-mail with
the subject and a brief description to zephyr-organizers at mit.edu by 
Sunday, February 6 (the same date as for RSVPs) and we'll figure out
the schedule.

We'll work out exact scheduling details once we have some idea how many
people have things to talk about.  As general guidelines, I'd expect 
not to begin much before 10a and not to end much later than 6p, though
it wouldn't surprise me if a dinner mob develops following.  

We obviously don't have a hotel or anything official like that.  There
are a few options in the area, which Google Maps knows better than I 
do.  Let me know at zephyr-organizers at mit.edu if you're having trouble 
finding lodging, and we'll work something out.

A word on mailing lists:  You're all receiving this because you are on
zephyr-announce at mit.edu, which I populated from a few lists for 
zephyr-interested people (barnowl-dev at mit.edu mostly) or were otherwise
known to be zephyr-interested.  zephyr-announce is managed through MIT's
Mailman list infrastructure, and you can unsubscribe or manage your 
subscription at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/zephyr .  You 
can also e-mail me at zephyr-organizers at mit.edu and I'll take you off 
the list.  Zephyr will be moving to its own mailing list infrastructure
eventually, but bootstrapping off MIT's infrastructure was the fastest
way to get things to moving forward.

That said, this is *NOT* a limited invite!  Please forward this to 
anyone you think would be interested.

Hope to see you in February!

Best,
- Kevin, for zephyr-organizers at mit.edu
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Kevin Riggle (kevinr at free-dissociation.com) 
http://free-dissociation.com

--
Kevin Riggle (kevinr at free-dissociation.com) 
http://free-dissociation.com