From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 6 10:35:12 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41BAF106566B for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:35:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hans@beastielabs.net) Received: from mail.beastielabs.net (beasties.demon.nl [82.161.3.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1AE18FC08 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:35:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from merom.hotsoft.nl (merom.hotsoft.nl [192.168.0.12]) by mail.beastielabs.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q16AYnGi035851; Mon, 6 Feb 2012 11:34:51 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from hans@beastielabs.net) Message-ID: <4F2FACC9.2090807@beastielabs.net> Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:34:49 +0100 From: Hans Ottevanger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120203 Thunderbird/10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Julian H. Stacey" References: <201201301235.q0UCZhF1051226@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: <201201301235.q0UCZhF1051226@fire.js.berklix.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggested article to be referenced from FreeBSD Home Page X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:35:12 -0000 On 01/30/12 13:35, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Hi, > Hans Ottevanger wrote: >> Hi advocates, >> >> This article >> >> http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/why-arent-you-using-freebsd-178119?page=0,1 >> >> was "discussed" on Slashdot shortly after it appeared. >> >> Still, I think the article is of a quite reasonable quality and is good >> publicity for FreeBSD. It certainly deserves to be mentioned under "In >> the media" on www.freebsd.org. >> >> And if this is not the right list: who do I need to contact for this? > > I recall webmaster@freebsd.org often not responsive, > So either use > send-pr > > or from > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo > freebsd-www FreeBSD Project Webmasters > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-www >> Thanks for your suggestions Julian, but I already sent a message to www-freebsd@ quite a while ago and I even received a response: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-www/2011-December/007320.html although nothing has happened up to now. I my opinion it is essential that those few articles about FreeBSD that still appear are linked to from the Home page of the website. It could give the impression to a passer-by (i.e. a potential new user!) that FreeBSD is still alive and kicking. Currently that specific column just seems out-of-date. Another suggestion: on the FreeBSD Foundation site some content is hidden, e.g. http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/testimonials.shtml that certainly deserves a more prominent place on the FreeBSD main site. Kind regards, Hans Ottevanger