Beer and Gear surprise

Wed Feb 21 05:36:55 UTC 2001

Did I miss some discussion about the Beer and Gear surprise?  I, personally, 
feel somewhat cheated that there was no "gear" available from the vendors in 
attendance.

If I had known that there was to be no freebees, I certainly could have went 
to dinner early and not hung around to look at equipment that I already have 
seen directly from the vendors.

I did not spend money to come out to Atlanta to get hit upon by vendors.  If 
I had wanted to look at vendors, I could have went to some other conferences 
and spent more time looking at equipment that I won't be recommending for 
deployment.  Without some freebees to draw the nanog conference attendees to 
the vendors, I don't even see the point of continuing to have the the Beer 
and Gear part.

I have found this on the web site:

"In striving to achieve these goals, all tutorials and presentations, 
including BOF presentations, are reviewed in advance and are limited to 
those entirely of a general technical nature, explicitly prohibiting 
material that relates to any specific product or service offerings. For 
similar reasons, equipment exhibits are limited to the "Beer 'n Gear" 
sessions, and vendor giveaways are not permitted at any time during the 
meeting."

I'm not sure if there was a vote of the membership, or what, but I had 
certainly missed it.

Does anyone have more information on this?

UK

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