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To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
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Subject: Re: Something I noticed on the Yahoo site 
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Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 22:49:12 -0700

Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>  wrote:
 > Hm. What do booths cost? I may be wrong, but I think that OpenBSD might have
 > been granted a free booth. We might have asked, I guess.

Booths are a variable cost depending on size and whether you want a
table/electricity, piece of curtain, etc... think anywhere from $2k to
$4k...

I have dealt with Usenix and I'm fairly certain that they do indeed
charge everyone for booth space, in general...

 > > 	b) There was nothing to sell at the booth.
 > 
 > CDs? Anyway, having folks see a NetBSD booth would have if nothing else
 > been nicely promotional.

Oh? you have CD's? 

The point I'm trying to make is that Charles and I have put in a huge
amount of work in trying to do what little marketing we've done.  All
I see on the advocacy list is a lot of people telling everyone else
what should be done, and how disappointed they are that nothing was
done, but no one actually doing anything.