From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Jan 25 9:58:45 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DAC637B401 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 09:58:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from priv-edtnes61.telusplanet.net (outbound01.telus.net [199.185.220.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9770243E4A for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 09:58:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pfak@telus.net) Received: from [192.168.1.179] ([216.232.36.68]) by priv-edtnes61.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.17 201-253-122-126-117-20021021) with ESMTP id <20030125175838.LRQV7527.priv-edtnes61.telusplanet.net@[192.168.1.179]>; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 10:58:38 -0700 Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 PR is not very good... From: Peter Kieser To: Alexandr Kovalenko Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <20030125062732.GA92204@nevermind.kiev.ua> References: <20030125062732.GA92204@nevermind.kiev.ua> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1043517532.651.1.camel@sharpie> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.0 Date: 25 Jan 2003 09:58:52 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Heck, I can't even get a FreeBSD 4.5 box where I live. In BC, Canada. I'd love to see it in the stores, I'd surely buy it if at all possible. On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 22:27, Alexandr Kovalenko wrote: > Hello, > > Just found very good article @osnews.com about PRing 5.0-RELEASE: > > http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2650 > > You know, it is true. > > I would like to start new initiative inside FreeBSD Project to promote > FreeBSD worldwide. The aims and tasks of project will be: > > - make press releases on all possible languages about significant > events in FreeBSD projects; > - pass those press releases to all local mass media, either on- or > offline; > - working together with publishers so that they will issue handbook > on local language (if avaliable); > - working with authors to help them make _good_ books about FreeBSD, > not > bad-translated-handbook-not-having-any-clue-what-is-being-translated; > - working with CD publishers so that they will issue FreeBSD boxes > (here in Kiev, Ukraine, I can find only different flavours of > Linux being sold, and only once I've seen 4.5-RELEASE 4CD box, > when 4.7 was out, I've asked consultant, and he said that they had > 7 such boxen and sold them very fast (2 days)), there is demand > for such boxs everywhere, but, for example here in .ua we cannot > buy those 4CD boxes. Yes we can buy it from overseas, but pricing > is too high compared to our local salaries :/ > > I would like to ask if anyone interested in this? > > P.S. Sorry for my very bad English, I hope you understood me. -- Peter Kieser pfak@telus.net () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ - against microsoft attachments To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message