Beer and Gear surprise

Hank Nussbacher hank at att.net.il
Thu Feb 22 08:42:10 UTC 2001


At 22:04 21/02/01 -0500, Daniel L. Golding wrote:

>There is an easy solution here. If folks are really incensed about the
>lack of vendor goodies and/or the level of excitement on certain panels,
>they can:
>
>1) Volunteer to speak at future NANOG meetings on stuff they feel is more
>exciting
>
>2) Provide feedback on the survey
>
>3) Buy Merit and run it themselves

Just the 35.0.0.0/8 alone should be worth about $1b. :-)

-Hank


>4) Turn NANOG into a membership organization run by an elected board.
>
>I suggest #1 and #2. If you have lots of money, you could always try
>#3. #4 is intrigueing, but I doubt the collective will to accomplish it,
>particularly as this issue is a dearth of vendor supplied undergarments,
>which, while tragic, is not exactly the sort of cause that folks would
>rally around.
>
>Daniel Golding                           NetRail,Inc.
>"Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness"
>
>On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, John M . Brown wrote:
>
> >
> > Yes, a specific single person at MERIT found the boxer shourts
> > offensive.  In talking with many other people at that NANOG,
> > both male and female, they didn't find the shorts offensive and
> > infact where sought after.
> >
> > Thus a "gray market" in cisco shorts was created, preventing Cisco
> > from taking it in the "shorts".
> >
> > If that has now grown to "vendors can't give anything" out, then
> > its a SAD SAD SAD DAY.
> >
> > I certainly hope those at MERIT will help educate the power to be..
> >
> > NANOG now has gone Corporate, In fact I am surprised MERIT is sponsoring
> > Beer, I mean someone could get tipsy and have an accident (other
> > than dropping there shorts).
> >
> > It reminds me of those start-ups that have beer thirty on the back
> > loading dock on fridays.  They grow, people enjoy hanging out, working
> > hard and having some fun.
> >
> > Then one day someone decides its not "the right image, or something"
> > and the friday 4:30 parties are killed.  Its the dawn of Corporate
> > Image and RED TAPE.
> >
> > I seriously hope NANOG doesn't go that way.
> >
> > I mention no names, as to protect the stuffy and the guilty.
> >
> > jmbrown
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 01:13:50AM -0500, Adam Rothschild wrote:
> > >
> > > [ Warning: this message is void of any operational content. ]
> > >
> > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:36:55PM -0600, Ukyo Kuonji wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > <rumor>
> > >
> > > Sponsors were specifically asked _not_ to give out clothing, as the
> > > Cisco boxer shorts distributed at NANOG 20 were somehow deemed
> > > offensive and discriminatory.
> > >
> > > </rumor>
> > >
> > > Don't get me wrong, Beer and Gear was definitely time well spent, I
> > > just found the "gear" aspect (assuming that's in reference to
> > > freebies, not hardware demonstrated by vendors) a bit lacking. ;)
> > >
> > > Long live free vendorware.
> > >
> > > -adam
> > >
> >





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