From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 2 00:54:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A90216A4CE for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2004 00:54:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from aiolos.otenet.gr (aiolos.otenet.gr [195.170.0.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 189AF43D48 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2004 00:54:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-a076.otenet.gr [212.205.215.76]) iA20sM96032606; Tue, 2 Nov 2004 02:54:23 +0200 Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iA20sGiw081466; Tue, 2 Nov 2004 02:54:16 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iA20sGUc081465; Tue, 2 Nov 2004 02:54:16 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 02:54:16 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Joe Warner Message-ID: <20041102005416.GA81434@gothmog.gr> References: <200410300630.14877.rootman22@comcast.net> <20041101212824.GA35814@gothmog.gr> <200411011718.30582.rootman22@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200411011718.30582.rootman22@comcast.net> cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why do you do it? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 00:54:30 -0000 On 2004-11-01 17:18, Joe Warner wrote: > On Monday 01 November 2004 02:28 pm, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > [huge snip] > > Thanks Giorgos, it's really great to read your perspective and it > brings me a lot closer to understanding the overall motivation/s. > > Would you mind if I shared this with our [1] list members? > [1] http://www.gubug.org Not at all. When I post to a public list, the text is, well, "public" :-) > Also, I was hoping to get responses from some of the other developers too but > I hate to cross-post and I'm not sure which other list would be appropriate. > Do you have any suggestions? Advocacy, perhaps? A lot of the most prolific committers are super-busy right now with the final stages of 5.3-RELEASE. You will probably get more replies in a while. If you don't let me know, and I'll see if I can inspire some people to write their own views too. - Giorgos