From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 6 02:12:47 2004 Return-Path: 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 510DB16A4CE for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 02:12:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hal.9trackmind.com (hal.9trackmind.com [205.150.75.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4FEB43D5A for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 02:12:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mit@mitayai.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hal.9trackmind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AE4A294 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 21:13:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from hal.9trackmind.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (hal.9trackmind.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 97539-10 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 21:13:02 -0500 (EST) Received: by hal.9trackmind.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id D92DF295; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 21:13:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.10.13] (CPE0050ba2aad99-CM000a739a2424.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.195.74.9]) by hal.9trackmind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77AF1291 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 21:13:02 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41B3C01C.4060602@mitayai.org> Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 21:12:44 -0500 From: Mit Rowe User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0RC1 (Windows/20041201) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: advocacy@freebsd.org X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at 9trackmind.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Grants X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 02:12:47 -0000 Hi, folks! I'm Mit, and i've been your ca.FreeBSD.Org hostmaster for many years. I'm pretty quiet on a international scale, but i've been active as a local advocate for the FreeBSD community in every community i have involvement in since a copy of FreeBSD 2.0 landed on my desk in early '95. I have also considered it my duty to encourage FreeBSD mirrors in Canada, but I have been constantly frustrated by my ability to have corporations provide long-term resources to the FreeBSD Project in terms of WWW, FTP, and CVSUp mirrors of the FreeBSD releases, source, and documentation. This frustration has led me to think of turning to the government of Canada, starting from the Communications Research Centre (an agency of Industry Canada) and working my way up, looking for either them to host the FreeBSD mirror or provide a grant to someone to do so. However, before i speak for the FreeBSD Project, i believe that i am honour-bound to request feed back on my intent and method; therefore, i ask your feedback, comments and advice on the following letter i think i should send first to info@crc.ca and see what kind of feedback i receive from them (which i would report back). Also, perhaps any lurking Canadians out there could hold up their hands? I sometimes feel pretty lonely out here in this corner of the world :-) Regards, Mit Here's the text of the letter in English (i'm also going to write it in French, our other language of government in Canada, in case any of the potential readers are francophone). Please comment as soon as possible. ===== My name is William Rowe, commonly known as Mit Rowe, and i am a Canadian member of the FreeBSD community and serve in the capacity of Hostmaster for the FreeBSD Subdomain. FreeBSD is, as the website http://www.freebsd.org/ describes, "...an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium and Athlon), amd64 compatible (including Opteron, Athlon 64, and EM64T), Alpha/AXP, IA-64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC® architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals . Additional platforms are in various stages of development." It is a freely available, opensource operating system with no restrictions on commercial use. More information of the licenses can be found at http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html. The core documentation of FreeBSD is available in both national languages, as are large chunks of ancillary documentation. I have worked in the ISP and IT industries for over a decade, and am well aware of the prevalent use of FreeBSD in Canada, in both the private and public sectors in corporations large and small, Internet Service Providers and non-profit, charitable, governmental and educational institutions. The level of interest and use warrants the existence of resources to install, configure, maintain, upgrade and support the operating system, which can be done through the allocation of resources for mirroring the FreeBSD source and documentation in order to make more efficient use of global Internet resources. The use of public funds to support a free platform which runs much of the infrastructure of our nation is both a way of supporting the existing infrastructure and making it easier for Canadians to support and further develop this technology, and will also serve to help increase and support our international reputation as a center for Technology and Communications, and the pride that we IT professionals feel in for the country which we are honoured to be able to call our home. With respect, Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe Toronto, ON mitayai@ca.freebsd.org From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 6 02:49:13 2004 Return-Path: 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 F380416A4CE for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 02:49:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [66.11.174.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86F6543D55 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 02:49:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 053673D37; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 21:49:09 -0500 (EST) From: "Dan Langille" To: Mit Rowe Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 21:49:10 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <41B38256.20735.A030E8A3@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <41B3C01C.4060602@mitayai.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Grants X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 02:49:13 -0000 On 5 Dec 2004 at 21:12, Mit Rowe wrote: > I have also considered it my duty to encourage FreeBSD mirrors in > Canada, but I have been constantly frustrated by my ability to have > corporations provide long-term resources to the FreeBSD Project in terms > of WWW, FTP, and CVSUp mirrors of the FreeBSD releases, source, and > documentation. > > This frustration has led me to think of turning to the government of > Canada, starting from the Communications Research Centre (an agency of > Industry Canada) and working my way up, looking for either them to host > the FreeBSD mirror or provide a grant to someone to do so. I know the folks at NRC that run the ftp.ca > However, before i speak for the FreeBSD Project, i believe that i am > honour-bound to request feed back on my intent and method; therefore, i > ask your feedback, comments and advice on the following letter i think i > should send first to info@crc.ca and see what kind of feedback i receive > from them (which i would report back). > > Also, perhaps any lurking Canadians out there could hold up their hands? > I sometimes feel pretty lonely out here in this corner of the world :-) Have you seen http://www.goslingcommunity.org/ ? -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/ From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 6 03:50:04 2004 Return-Path: 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 8F07416A4D0 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 03:50:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx1.freebsdsystems.com (mx1.FreeBSDsystems.COM [69.90.68.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F34FC43D6B for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 03:50:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from LBaron@freebsdsystems.com) Received: (qmail 82543 invoked by uid 3011); 6 Dec 2004 03:52:54 -0000 Received: from LBaron@freebsdsystems.com by mx1.freebsdsystems.com by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (f-prot: 3.12/. Clear:RC:1(216.235.8.115):. Processed in 1.816979 secs); 06 Dec 2004 03:52:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.60?) (lbaron@216.235.8.115) by mx1.freebsdsystems.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 6 Dec 2004 03:52:52 -0000 Message-ID: <41B3D724.8060804@freebsdsystems.com> Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 22:51:00 -0500 From: Lanny Baron Organization: FreeBSD Systems User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041123) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mit Rowe References: <41B3C01C.4060602@mitayai.org> In-Reply-To: <41B3C01C.4060602@mitayai.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Grants X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 03:50:04 -0000 Hi Mit, Perhaps we can help. Contact me at your convenience. Regards, =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Lanny Baron Proud to be 100% FreeBSD http://www.FreeBSDsystems.COM Toll Free: 1.877.963.1900 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Mit Rowe wrote: > Hi, folks! > > I'm Mit, and i've been your ca.FreeBSD.Org hostmaster for many years. > I'm pretty quiet on a international scale, but i've been active as a > local advocate for the FreeBSD community in every community i have > involvement in since a copy of FreeBSD 2.0 landed on my desk in early > '95. > > I have also considered it my duty to encourage FreeBSD mirrors in > Canada, but I have been constantly frustrated by my ability to have > corporations provide long-term resources to the FreeBSD Project in > terms of WWW, FTP, and CVSUp mirrors of the FreeBSD releases, source, > and documentation. > > This frustration has led me to think of turning to the government of > Canada, starting from the Communications Research Centre (an agency of > Industry Canada) and working my way up, looking for either them to > host the FreeBSD mirror or provide a grant to someone to do so. > > However, before i speak for the FreeBSD Project, i believe that i am > honour-bound to request feed back on my intent and method; therefore, > i ask your feedback, comments and advice on the following letter i > think i should send first to info@crc.ca and see what kind of feedback > i receive from them (which i would report back). > > Also, perhaps any lurking Canadians out there could hold up their > hands? I sometimes feel pretty lonely out here in this corner of the > world :-) > > Regards, > Mit > > Here's the text of the letter in English (i'm also going to write it > in French, our other language of government in Canada, in case any of > the potential readers are francophone). Please comment as soon as > possible. > > ===== > > > My name is William Rowe, commonly known as Mit Rowe, and i am a > Canadian member of the FreeBSD community and serve in the capacity of > Hostmaster for the FreeBSD Subdomain. > > FreeBSD is, as the website http://www.freebsd.org/ describes, > > "...an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium > and Athlon), amd64 compatible (including Opteron, Athlon 64, and > EM64T), Alpha/AXP, IA-64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC® architectures. It is > derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of > California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large team > of individuals > . > Additional platforms are > in various stages of development." It is a freely available, > opensource operating system with no restrictions on commercial use. > More information of the licenses can be found at > http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html. The core > documentation of FreeBSD is available in both national languages, as > are large chunks of ancillary documentation. > > I have worked in the ISP and IT industries for over a decade, and am > well aware of the prevalent use of FreeBSD in Canada, in both the > private and public sectors in corporations large and small, Internet > Service Providers and non-profit, charitable, governmental and > educational institutions. > > The level of interest and use warrants the existence of resources to > install, configure, maintain, upgrade and support the operating > system, which can be done through the allocation of resources for > mirroring the FreeBSD source and documentation in order to make more > efficient use of global Internet resources. > > The use of public funds to support a free platform which runs much of > the infrastructure of our nation is both a way of supporting the > existing infrastructure and making it easier for Canadians to support > and further develop this technology, and will also serve to help > increase and support our international reputation as a center for > Technology and Communications, and the pride that we IT professionals > feel in for the country which we are honoured to be able to call our > home. > > With respect, > Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe > Toronto, ON > mitayai@ca.freebsd.org > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 6 04:22:20 2004 Return-Path: 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 4D06616A4CE for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 04:22:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hal.9trackmind.com (hal.9trackmind.com [205.150.75.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFCBB43D5A for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 04:22:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mit@mitayai.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hal.9trackmind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 657AE5E7; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 23:22:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from hal.9trackmind.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (hal.9trackmind.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 54843-17; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 23:22:36 -0500 (EST) Received: by hal.9trackmind.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 3C8D92FB; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 23:22:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.10.13] (CPE0050ba2aad99-CM000a739a2424.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.195.74.9]) by hal.9trackmind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC7BF7A; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 23:22:35 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41B3DE79.6030205@mitayai.org> Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 23:22:17 -0500 From: Mit Rowe User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0RC1 (Windows/20041201) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lanny Baron References: <41B3C01C.4060602@mitayai.org> <41B3D724.8060804@freebsdsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <41B3D724.8060804@freebsdsystems.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at 9trackmind.com cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Grants X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 04:22:20 -0000 Any help you can provide would be great! Lanny Baron wrote: > Hi Mit, > Perhaps we can help. Contact me at your convenience. > > Regards, > =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= > Lanny Baron > Proud to be 100% FreeBSD > http://www.FreeBSDsystems.COM > Toll Free: 1.877.963.1900 > =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= > > > > Mit Rowe wrote: > >> Hi, folks! >> >> I'm Mit, and i've been your ca.FreeBSD.Org hostmaster for many years. >> I'm pretty quiet on a international scale, but i've been active as a >> local advocate for the FreeBSD community in every community i have >> involvement in since a copy of FreeBSD 2.0 landed on my desk in early >> '95. >> >> I have also considered it my duty to encourage FreeBSD mirrors in >> Canada, but I have been constantly frustrated by my ability to have >> corporations provide long-term resources to the FreeBSD Project in >> terms of WWW, FTP, and CVSUp mirrors of the FreeBSD releases, source, >> and documentation. >> >> This frustration has led me to think of turning to the government of >> Canada, starting from the Communications Research Centre (an agency >> of Industry Canada) and working my way up, looking for either them to >> host the FreeBSD mirror or provide a grant to someone to do so. >> >> However, before i speak for the FreeBSD Project, i believe that i am >> honour-bound to request feed back on my intent and method; therefore, >> i ask your feedback, comments and advice on the following letter i >> think i should send first to info@crc.ca and see what kind of >> feedback i receive from them (which i would report back). >> >> Also, perhaps any lurking Canadians out there could hold up their >> hands? I sometimes feel pretty lonely out here in this corner of the >> world :-) >> >> Regards, >> Mit >> >> Here's the text of the letter in English (i'm also going to write it >> in French, our other language of government in Canada, in case any of >> the potential readers are francophone). Please comment as soon as >> possible. >> >> ===== >> >> >> My name is William Rowe, commonly known as Mit Rowe, and i am a >> Canadian member of the FreeBSD community and serve in the capacity of >> Hostmaster for the FreeBSD Subdomain. >> >> FreeBSD is, as the website http://www.freebsd.org/ describes, >> >> "...an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including >> Pentium and Athlon), amd64 compatible (including Opteron, Athlon 64, >> and EM64T), Alpha/AXP, IA-64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC® architectures. It >> is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University >> of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large >> team of individuals >> . >> Additional platforms >> are in various stages of development." It is a freely available, >> opensource operating system with no restrictions on commercial use. >> More information of the licenses can be found at >> http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html. The core >> documentation of FreeBSD is available in both national languages, as >> are large chunks of ancillary documentation. >> >> I have worked in the ISP and IT industries for over a decade, and am >> well aware of the prevalent use of FreeBSD in Canada, in both the >> private and public sectors in corporations large and small, Internet >> Service Providers and non-profit, charitable, governmental and >> educational institutions. >> >> The level of interest and use warrants the existence of resources to >> install, configure, maintain, upgrade and support the operating >> system, which can be done through the allocation of resources for >> mirroring the FreeBSD source and documentation in order to make more >> efficient use of global Internet resources. >> >> The use of public funds to support a free platform which runs much of >> the infrastructure of our nation is both a way of supporting the >> existing infrastructure and making it easier for Canadians to support >> and further develop this technology, and will also serve to help >> increase and support our international reputation as a center for >> Technology and Communications, and the pride that we IT professionals >> feel in for the country which we are honoured to be able to call our >> home. >> >> With respect, >> Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe >> Toronto, ON >> mitayai@ca.freebsd.org >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 6 07:18:52 2004 Return-Path: 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 B705F16A4CE for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 07:18:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx1.freebsdsystems.com (mx1.FreeBSDsystems.COM [69.90.68.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF40A43D53 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 07:18:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from LBaron@freebsdsystems.com) Received: (qmail 5830 invoked by uid 3011); 6 Dec 2004 07:21:38 -0000 Received: from LBaron@freebsdsystems.com by mx1.freebsdsystems.com by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (f-prot: 3.12/. Clear:RC:1(216.235.9.82):. Processed in 2.07955 secs); 06 Dec 2004 07:21:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain) (lbaron@216.235.9.82) by mx1.freebsdsystems.com with (RC4-MD5 encrypted) SMTP; 6 Dec 2004 07:21:35 -0000 From: Lanny Baron To: Mit Rowe In-Reply-To: <41B3DE79.6030205@mitayai.org> References: <41B3C01C.4060602@mitayai.org> <41B3D724.8060804@freebsdsystems.com> <41B3DE79.6030205@mitayai.org> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-r7j6dvvB6N0fU9kV88c7" Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 02:18:40 -0500 Message-Id: <1102317520.98368.3.camel@panda.freebsdsystems.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Grants X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 07:18:52 -0000 --=-r7j6dvvB6N0fU9kV88c7 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Mit, Like I said earlier, perhaps you can contact me tomorrow (monday) when I am in the office. I look forward to hearing from you. -- Regards, =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Lanny Baron Proud to be 100% FreeBSD http://www.FreeBSDsystems.COM Toll Free: 1.877.963.1900 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= --=-r7j6dvvB6N0fU9kV88c7 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Description: Forwarded message - Re: Grants Content-Type: message/rfc822 Received: (qmail 86421 invoked by uid 3011); 6 Dec 2004 04:25:26 -0000 Received: from owner-freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org by mx1.freebsdsystems.com by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (f-prot: 3.12/. Clear:RC:0(216.136.204.119):. Processed in 1.914466 secs); 06 Dec 2004 04:25:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx2.freebsd.org) (216.136.204.119) by mx1.freebsdsystems.com with SMTP; 6 Dec 2004 04:25:23 -0000 Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.freebsd.org [216.136.204.18]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B2F556D0C; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 owner-freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org) Received: from hub.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87FD916A4E1; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 04:22:22 +0000 (GMT) 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 4D06616A4CE for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 04:22:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hal.9trackmind.com (hal.9trackmind.com [205.150.75.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFCBB43D5A for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 04:22:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mit@mitayai.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hal.9trackmind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 657AE5E7; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 23:22:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from hal.9trackmind.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhostid 54843-17; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 23:22:36 -0500 (EST) Received: by hal.9trackmind.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 3C8D92FB; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 23:22:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.10.13][69.195.74.9]) by hal.9trackmind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC7BF7A; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 23:22:35 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41B3DE79.6030205@mitayai.org> Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 23:22:17 -0500 From: Mit Rowe User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0RC1 (Windows/20041201) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lanny Baron References: <41B3C01C.4060602@mitayai.org> <41B3D724.8060804@freebsdsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <41B3D724.8060804@freebsdsystems.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at 9trackmind.com Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Grants X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Errors-To: owner-freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on mx1.freebsdsystems.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=5.0version=3.0.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Any help you can provide would be great! Lanny Baron wrote: > Hi Mit, > Perhaps we can help. Contact me at your convenience. > > Regards, > =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= > Lanny Baron > Proud to be 100% FreeBSD > http://www.FreeBSDsystems.COM > Toll Free: 1.877.963.1900 > =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= > > > > Mit Rowe wrote: > >> Hi, folks! >> >> I'm Mit, and i've been your ca.FreeBSD.Org hostmaster for many years. >> I'm pretty quiet on a international scale, but i've been active as a >> local advocate for the FreeBSD community in every community i have >> involvement in since a copy of FreeBSD 2.0 landed on my desk in early >> '95. >> >> I have also considered it my duty to encourage FreeBSD mirrors in >> Canada, but I have been constantly frustrated by my ability to have >> corporations provide long-term resources to the FreeBSD Project in >> terms of WWW, FTP, and CVSUp mirrors of the FreeBSD releases, source, >> and documentation. >> >> This frustration has led me to think of turning to the government of >> Canada, starting from the Communications Research Centre (an agency >> of Industry Canada) and working my way up, looking for either them to >> host the FreeBSD mirror or provide a grant to someone to do so. >> >> However, before i speak for the FreeBSD Project, i believe that i am >> honour-bound to request feed back on my intent and method; therefore, >> i ask your feedback, comments and advice on the following letter i >> think i should send first to info@crc.ca and see what kind of >> feedback i receive from them (which i would report back). >> >> Also, perhaps any lurking Canadians out there could hold up their >> hands? I sometimes feel pretty lonely out here in this corner of the >> world :-) >> >> Regards, >> Mit >> >> Here's the text of the letter in English (i'm also going to write it >> in French, our other language of government in Canada, in case any of >> the potential readers are francophone). Please comment as soon as >> possible. >> >> ===== >> >> >> My name is William Rowe, commonly known as Mit Rowe, and i am a >> Canadian member of the FreeBSD community and serve in the capacity of >> Hostmaster for the FreeBSD Subdomain. >> >> FreeBSD is, as the website http://www.freebsd.org/ describes, >> >> "...an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including >> Pentium and Athlon), amd64 compatible (including Opteron, Athlon 64, >> and EM64T), Alpha/AXP, IA-64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC® architectures. It >> is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University >> of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large >> team of individuals >> . >> Additional platforms >> are in various stages of development." It is a freely available, >> opensource operating system with no restrictions on commercial use. >> More information of the licenses can be found at >> http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html. The core >> documentation of FreeBSD is available in both national languages, as >> are large chunks of ancillary documentation. >> >> I have worked in the ISP and IT industries for over a decade, and am >> well aware of the prevalent use of FreeBSD in Canada, in both the >> private and public sectors in corporations large and small, Internet >> Service Providers and non-profit, charitable, governmental and >> educational institutions. >> >> The level of interest and use warrants the existence of resources to >> install, configure, maintain, upgrade and support the operating >> system, which can be done through the allocation of resources for >> mirroring the FreeBSD source and documentation in order to make more >> efficient use of global Internet resources. >> >> The use of public funds to support a free platform which runs much of >> the infrastructure of our nation is both a way of supporting the >> existing infrastructure and making it easier for Canadians to support >> and further develop this technology, and will also serve to help >> increase and support our international reputation as a center for >> Technology and Communications, and the pride that we IT professionals >> feel in for the country which we are honoured to be able to call our >> home. >> >> With respect, >> Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe >> Toronto, ON >> mitayai@ca.freebsd.org >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --=-r7j6dvvB6N0fU9kV88c7-- From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 7 17:22:24 2004 Return-Path: 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 2701B16A4CE for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 17:22:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B1A143D41 for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 17:22:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsdfreak@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so94372rnz for ; Tue, 07 Dec 2004 09:22:20 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=P4zxxWkBUxbhDMLOOMEQo4snAKeYKl5OQuh3zt+GIlWaHajtF+Zk7oTDHadRxB5eOOUIn8s4FiytBJbE2AXEGdOjPrtSHIwWsq7k4yXRXoHzypYeeYdTvM4x3m+iGxt4GoK3oMf6WwgbdChb0JHIm8NlI1rUyJO6eTC6vwnKHgg= Received: by 10.38.8.40 with SMTP id 40mr1926407rnh; Tue, 07 Dec 2004 09:22:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.179.34 with HTTP; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 09:22:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 12:22:19 -0500 From: Alexander Chamandy To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, advocacy@openbsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: BSDFreak revamped! X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Alexander Chamandy List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:22:24 -0000 Greetings fellow BSD advocates, We at www.BSDFreak.org have recently revamped the entire site, adding forums, newsfeeds, downloads and a much more sophisticated look. Please pay us a visit at your earliest convenience! www.BSDFreak.org has been providing BSD news, editorials, tutorials and much more since 2000. We're now expanding our horizons and reaching out to the community in an effort to increase overall awareness of BSD and create relationships with fellow BSD sites. Please let me know if you run a site that you'd like to setup a reciprocal link with or if you have any interest in contributing to BSDFreak. Thanks! -- Best wishes, Alexander G. Chamandy Webmaster www.bsdfreak.org Your Source For BSD News!