On Wed, Feb 21, 2001, Stephen Stuart wrote:
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Sponsors were specifically asked _not_ to give out clothing, as the Cisco boxer shorts distributed at NANOG 20 were somehow deemed offensive and discriminatory.
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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 -- Adrian Chadd "Romance novel?" <adrian@creative.net.au> "Girl Porn." - http://www.sinfest.net/d/20010202.html