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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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