[BLU/Officers] Travel expenses for speakers?

[gaf.linux at gmail.com (Jerry Feldman)]

I don't know where they currently live, but it cost me over $1000 to go
to DC for a funeral.
We have less than $2000 in the treasury, and you still need to register
our domain for another 10 years.

On 10/19/2011 03:12 PM, John Abreau wrote:
> Hi, guys.
>
> I had a brief discussion via email last night with Brian Kernighan,
> Ken Thompson, and Doug McIlroy, and I'd like to invite one or more
> of them as speakers to reminisce about the early history of UNIX.
>
> However, they're all a fairly long distance away, so I'm guessing
> we'd have to cover travel expenses and a hotel room, something
> we've never done before. Also, I would expect such a meeting
> to draw a bigger crowd than usual, so the rooms we currently
> meet in would be far too small.
>
> I imagine it's possible we could draw a crowd like we had for
> Linus back in 1995, where we filled 26-100. We might also
> want to publicize such a meeting in the Boston Globe like we
> did for Linus.
>
> What are your thoughts?
>
>


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