From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 24 19:07:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA28251 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 24 May 1996 19:07:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA28246 for ; Fri, 24 May 1996 19:07:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA02407; Fri, 24 May 1996 19:01:56 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199605250201.TAA02407@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: SDL cards To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 19:01:56 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, yves@CC.McGill.CA, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.com In-Reply-To: <8884.832975825@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at May 24, 96 03:10:25 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Unlikely. FreeBSD (unlike "The Linux Publicity Project") does not > > issue press releases (even when it should). > > Actually, that's not quite true. Walnut Creek sends about 70 or so > FreeBSD "press packs" to writers and editors in the trade press around > the world everytime a CD is done. In the packs there's a T-shirt, > some press release material, and a CD. :-) That's press relations, not press releases. A good company will produce 1-4 releases every month. I think the Linux publicity project does at least that many. It has nothing to do with whether on not you release a product (yes, that's good for a press-pack, and a T-shirt is a good press-pack freebie), but "...plans to" and "...has ported to" and "...now supports" and "...can run XXX's binaraies" and so on... I sent some samples of "press release ideas" under seperate cover. There's a difference between "publicity" and "marketing". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.