From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Apr 21 1: 2:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBAA51580E for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 01:02:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA29645; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 01:59:51 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <371D8575.E2DD38A8@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 01:59:49 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Licia Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is there a "how did you hear about us?" form on www.freebsd.org? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Licia wrote: > > [ 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... Oh, you mean like my "nologin" program I contributed several years ago, just to get on the contributors list? Well, not JUST to get on the contributors list, it does provide a useful function. > (paranoid woman at times :) ) I just got back from watching The Matrix. My paranoia is running rampant; running around the house kicking things over actually. I hope it'll calm down and let me go to sleep soon. > > > (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 :) Hopefully by showing that others are actually SELLING software to FreeBSD users. I'd certainly happily pay $99 for a good word processor that doesn't eat the system, like Gobe Productive for BeOS. I'd probably pay $40 or $50 for a good email client; the user interface on everything except Netscape Communicator sucks, and Communicator sucks functionally. > 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 :) I wish I could. By the time I get home from work, I barely have the energy to answer my email, let alone write more code. ;^( -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message