Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 22:14:51 +1000 From: phil grainger <freebsd@mpx.com.au> To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: A proposal for focus Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980526221451.007fe780@m1.gdr.net.au>
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I agree with Jordan, a commercial freebsd should not be a short term goal for the advocacy. And I also agree with Jordan that there should be a goal. Now I will avoid advocating anything to clarify where I am coming from. What advocacy needs to do is find an activity that combines our favourite activities, to start the ball rolling I think we need take stock of what it is that we find satisfying. 1./ talking about doing things 2./ tinkering with freebsd boxes 3./ being prepared to accept little or no progress 4./ enjoy moving onto too newer more interesting topics 5./ talking about doing things 6./ not starting what we finished there's something else I can't remember as well ... now we could do something altruistic, like donate a few 486's to some under privileged school, but that would not motivate the group sufficiently to create focus. What I'm suggesting is we donate a couple of twin pentium pro's, some huge scsi raid arrays, a 100mbit fibre satellite link to some 3rd world country and set up "the largest porn site in the world". We then use the enormous amount of traffic through the web server as a means "promoting" whatever we want as well as porn and FreeBSD. Just think of the amount of money we can make out of it. Then everyone can have a section of the porn server advocating whatever it is we want to advocate. I'll even write an article for newsletter #3 about how advocacy started such a great task "FreeBSD: hard core through and through" And we still keep FreeBSD free ... I nominate my self as group critic in whatever goal it is, that we pursue after this noble and great task. My previous experience includes a./ passionately advocating hard mouse matts when everyone had agreed on soft mouse matts. b./ passionately advocating "less than intuitive" as our new slogan when everyone had agreed on "the power to serve". c./ passionately interjecting at inappropriate moments when everyone had agreed on becoming more focused. d./ passionately advocating that we reintroduce the role of president to the freebsd core and then not suggesting a worthy person (hint, hint!). e./ passionately advocating that previous experience as a critic is sufficient experience to become president. f./ previous advisory roles in the Indonesian government, as quoted on CNN "those students do not represent a threat to the Suharto regime". g./ passionately argued that the office of president should be re titled "Protector of the FreeWorld" h./ passionately argued that whoever downloads FreeBSD from Walnut Creek should get a complimentary free kitten Well at least you read this far, so can we agree at least in the short term to agree on whatever someone else suggests and not think about doing it, "just try it". So far in the 3 months I have been subscribe to this list it has as a group failed to do anything. tongue firmly in the cheek. Phil Grainger <--insert witty but inappropriate quote here--> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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