From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Jan 25 21:48:55 2003 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 CED3937B401 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 21:48:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from gis.net (home.gis.net [208.218.130.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE3C443F18 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 21:48:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@slaudiovis.org) Received: from rasputin ([63.214.104.109]) by mail.gis.net; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 00:48:17 -0500 From: "Patrick Cable II" To: Subject: FreeBSD Press Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 00:48:36 -0500 Message-ID: <000801c2c4fe$926f4c20$02007f0a@rasputin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 In-Reply-To: <20030125220556.A85608@blackhelicopters.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal X-Rcpt-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello List! None of you know me; mainly because I don't have much to say (I read the lists, but only make comments when I feel I have something useful to contribute). As someone who is very happy with the FreeBSD operating system, I believe this can be my way of giving back. My mother, a Boston Globe Employee (owned by The New York Times, mind you), said a good way to get something printed in the business/tech section was to write a letter to the editor of the tech section, PR attached. From there, it could be picked up by other papers, etc. I don't know. It's definitely a thought. If we create a letter that we can accompany the PR with, I think we could get somewhere. When I get a chance I can start working on a nice letter. Though, ideas of what it should contain would be helpful. - Patrick Cable II Media Technician, Dennett Elementary School - Plympton, MA "Today is the tomorrow you were worried about yesterday. Was it worth it?" -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Michael Lucas Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 10:06 PM To: Peter Kieser Cc: Terry Lambert; Alexandr Kovalenko; freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 PR is not very good... Well, yes. But it can be fixed, even now. It would be nice if someone went into the archives, got out that comprehensive to-do list, and posted it in a nice HTML version where people could claim tasks, statuses could be given, etc. Committers are available to back real work. We are not available to spew hot air. :-) On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 06:53:58PM -0800, Peter Kieser wrote: > Was searching through the archives and found this: > > "With version 5 coming up, we have a great chance to get people to look > at FreeBSD, and to get a lot of positive press. We'd be fools to let > that chance pass by." > > Well, I guess we are fools, we already let that chance go, and alot of > people are looking at this release as the release that failed. > > On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 14:27, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Peter Kieser wrote: > > > Heck, I can't even get a FreeBSD 4.5 box where I live. In BC, Canada. > > > I'd love to see it in the stores, I'd surely buy it if at all possible. > > > > You need to talk to the reformulated Walnut Creek CDROM; also, > > please do not confuse "Sales" with "Marketing". On of the worst > > mistakes you can make, if you are a startup, is to lump them > > together while you are trying for funding. > > > > -- Terry > -- > Peter Kieser > pfak@telus.net > > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > /\ - against microsoft attachments > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Absolute BSD: http://www.AbsoluteBSD.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message