Bug 33274

Summary:	bsdcon.com is dead
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Wolfram Schneider <wosch>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	Murray Stokely <murray>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Wolfram Schneider freebsd_committer

2001-12-28 13:10:01 UTC

The web site www.bsdcon.com (alias www.bsdcon.org) is 
dead.

Fix: 

Contact Wind River Systems and ask why the host is down.

The real home page for BSDCON is 
http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02
so www.bsdcon.org should be a simple virtual webserver
with a redirect to the real home page.

IMHO the domains should be maintained by the FreeBSD Project
or an other non-profit organization (FreeBSD Foundation, Usenix).

BTW, the domains bsdcon.com and bsdcon.org 
expires in 3 weeks!

Comment 1 darklogik 2001-12-28 19:11:15 UTC

My patch from the 2 dead links (pr 33255) can be modified to alter this 
from the projects page, please look into it...  If I need to, i'll suply 
another patch for that page, and the news page which will close both of 
your pr's

Tom Rhodes
www.Pittgoth.com
www.FreeBSD.org

Comment 2 Murray Stokely freebsd_committer

2001-12-31 09:35:08 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->analyzed

I've started dialogs with several people both inside and outside of 
Wind River to resolve this.

Comment 3 Murray Stokely freebsd_committer

2001-12-31 09:35:08 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->murray

I will follow up.

Comment 4 Murray Stokely freebsd_committer

2002-03-26 12:57:04 UTC

State Changed
From-To: analyzed->closed

Well, Usenix is hardly a non-profit, so I wouldn't have listed them 
with the FreeBSD Foundation above. 

Apparently, someone at WRS did eventually re-register the domains, so 
the worst situation (domain grabbed by a squatter) was avoided. 

It's not clear to me at this point if Usenix is even going to sponsor 
the next BSDCon, so IMHO the domain is in as good of hands with WRS as 
it is with Usenix, Apple, or any other BSD friendly organization.