[34854] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Beer and Gear surprise
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Wed Feb 21 06:07:40 2001
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 19:03:54 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Stephen Stuart <stuart@mfnx.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20010221190353.N41037@ewok.creative.net.au>
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On Wed, Feb 21, 2001, Stephen Stuart wrote:
>
> > <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>
>
> <fact>
>
> At NANOG 20, there was a mad rush from the meeting room before
> technical talks were over for the day to get to the Beer and Gear to
> suck up all the vendor trinkets. This was perceived as being
> astoundingly disrespectful to the people who take the time to put
> together a presentation and deliver it.
>
Intelesting. Perhaps for the next nanog meeting a delay of say,
30 minutes could be introducted between the end of a presentation
and the beer-n-gear session coupled with the beer-n-gear being shut
to prevent trinket rush-hour?
On another nanog side-note, congrats to the people running the
external realmedia feed this meeting. I was watching it from out
here in Amsterdam and the stream was flawless. Besides the
obvious camera refocus, etc. :-)
adrian
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