From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Apr 20 15:53:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from o-o.org (o-o.org [207.252.201.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC08A1579D for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 15:53:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from licia@o-o.org) Received: from localhost (licia@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by o-o.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA15097; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 17:51:06 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from licia@o-o.org) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 17:51:06 -0500 (CDT) From: Licia To: Wes Peters Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is there a "how did you hear about us?" form on www.freebsd.org? In-Reply-To: <370AECB4.71D34B54@softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ snipped for space ] On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > Licia wrote: > > > > So freeware authors would be able to get listed in the branded software area > > on the web site? > > Yes!! > Excellent :) I think this is a great way to offer encouragement :) > > Would there be criterion on size/quality of a branded > > project, or could someone write a clone of echo and get listed? :) > > Common sense, hopefully. I wouldn't expect to brand "echo", but perhaps a > suite of utilities like psutils could be, if somebody wants to brand it. > There is no reason why programs like XV and Ghostscript couldn't be, for > instance. > The reason I asked this, is that I am concerned about the people who would be more interested in getting listed in the archive than doing real development :) If someone weren't really developing material, but wanted an ego boost, they could do something like clone echo and try to get listed, but I think allowing that would degrade the value of the archive... (paranoid woman at times :) ) > > (nods) an interesting site, and I do think we could learn a lot from it. > > My main concern isn't the commercial developers though. As our numbers grow > > and FreeBSD becomes better known, such support is nearly inevitable I think. I > > worry more about keeping FreeBSD 'in the loop' as far as freeware support, and > > enticing people to use FreeBSD as a native development platform, any thoughts > > on how the branding effort could be used there? > > The purpose here is to get "application" vendors to put FreeBSD logos > on their products and their web pages. Hopefully the web page entries > will be linked to our web page, and the "box" logs will include a URL > or something like that. The idea here is to advocate FreeBSD, after all. > (nods) I agree completely, I'm just trying to see how this effort can be used to advocate FreeBSD as a development platform :) I do development under it on a daily basis, find it a wonderful os for both development and desktop use as well as server, and I want to make sure all three areas get a little advocating :) [ licia@o-o.org ] [ http://www.o-o.org/~licia/ ] [ Alias : Ladywolf] [ Telnet to o-o.org and log in as bbs ] [ ssh -l bbs -C o-o.org ] [ A happy user of FreeBSD : http://www.freebsd.org/ ] main(){int num[4]={1768122732,762265697,1919889007,103};printf("%s\n",num);} To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message