moin, moin, geekfest... ciao, der.hans -- # der.hans@LuftHans.com home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.YourCompanyHere.net ;-) # A Polish friend of mine got an offer for a free account from AOL. The # login ID was "HELLO" and the passwd "CYMBAL". She says "cymbal" is # Polish for "sucker". "Hello sucker" a greeting from AOHell :). ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 17:19:52 -0700 From: Rodney Joffe To: azipa@yahoogroups.com Subject: [azipa] Phoenix/Scottsdale to host NANOG 22 Resent-Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 17:19:51 -0700 Resent-From: azipalist@daqus.com This note is aimed at the geeks on the list (I know there are a few) as well as those members of the Internet community who understand the space but aren't geeks ;-) You've seen a couple of people on the list mention NANOG in the past.... Well, Phoenix gets a second chance to roll out the red carpet for 650 of the folks who designed, built, and run the Internet. I've offered to host the next NANOG geekfest here in Scottsdale in May (19-22) at the DoubleTree Paradise Valley. The announcement was made on NANOG about an hour ago, so it is not yet up on the NANOG site. The last one I hosted, in the fall of '97, created a lot of good press and general world awareness that Phoenix is not a black hole on the 'net, but actually is home to many savvy people, and good companies. So if any of you would like to get involved in the organization and running of the meeting, send me email *off-list* to rjoffe@centergate.com. There are some ground rules that some of you may not be aware of, so I suggest you scour the website at http://www.nanog.org. The most important thing is that this is *not* commercial. Suits, and sales people are not welcome (please don't take personal offense, them's the unwritten rules ;-)), and any salesmen or recruiters masquerading as geeks (long hair, beards, birkenstocks etc.) will be marched off the premises instantly (don't laugh, it has happened before). There is a beer-and-geer forum for product demonstrations on one of the evenings, so if you really really believe that you have a product or service that plumbers would be interested in, contact the folks at Merit who wrangle NANOG (see the nanog website). The regular participants are Cisco, Lucent, Nortel, Bay Networks, etc., as a guideline. But *no selling*! Those companies are invited back because they send clueful engineers, not salesmen. For those of you who are truly interested in the culture, history, technology, and people who make this 'thing' work, it is an awesome opportunity. And lest you believe that the claim that the group includes the folks that actually built this Internet is as bogus as Al Gore's, you're in for a neat surprise. Back to lurking. -- Rodney Joffe CenterGate Research Group, LLC. http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even we don't understand it!"(SM) ==AZIPA================================================================== Unless otherwise noted, list emails are NOT invitations for sales calls Arizona Internet Professionals Association http://www.azipa.org Next AZIPA monthly meeting is 5:30pm Monday, March 26, 2001 List-Unsubscribe mailto:azipa-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Searchable archives http://groups.yahoo.com/group/azipa/messages Not internet related? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/azipaofftopic Showcase and sponsor sign-up is at http://www.acteva.com/go/azipa Thank you to the following AZIPA Discussion List sponsors/supporters: * Greenberg Traurig, LLP - http://www.gtlaw.com * Business Journal of Phoenix - http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix ==================================================================AZIPA== Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/