[BLU/Officers] Travel expenses for speakers?

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Possibly see if we can get someone to sponsor them. That is how we got
Eric Raymond.

On 10/19/2011 03:45 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> 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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