Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 17:51:06 -0500 (CDT) From: Licia <licia@o-o.org> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is there a "how did you hear about us?" form on www.freebsd.org? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904201746090.15081-100000@o-o.org> In-Reply-To: <370AECB4.71D34B54@softweyr.com>
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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 :)
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