From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 27 17:47:38 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 320BC16A417 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:47:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 139CE13C447 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:47:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so5196927waf.3 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:47:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=S9+d3j4T3KC9w84gXTsKZk8pL2+ANT/HdkDBrBXhbZA=; b=cdUz5uemtoV9WV8P6Hwt1rdVu5U9f2mOAnV4zMqlBHO45gt3iyfQRmBz/SFrTOMjWs/2hAWkJ4SunBpBACTOxMS87F9zVJLTB5bZMDZNIsNL3kZI+Eu8iOQFretvC777AbMFRoEbnwy7DadwHiGwAOkPAFklXH7GVewlj4uFzuk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=w4ZDDQz+oJ8XUVyNVioytR+6ddE9ekYwLE7X/G2pPu4rYDiXlhAasP+bsAvzu1pY7Bv9ebI7v9jOGkacmSBklkLM3C1cUZh7+wXX2kpDG6aS4EpjYWr8F/AFH/pTS4f/XYrRfQjEfbXYSeAWrtIzwBqLx+vvmDsJcPAXFhAYhpo= Received: by 10.115.54.1 with SMTP id g1mr8340643wak.132.1198776192087; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:23:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.115.60.13 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:23:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <80f4f2b20712270923r2d50eafcif1a8b132a5a575c1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:23:12 -0500 From: "Jim Stapleton" To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: slashdot interview? X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:47:38 -0000 If this has been suggested before, sorry, I didn't find it in my searches. Has the idea of one of those "as such-and-such" articles for slashdot ever been suggested for the FreeBSD core team? Recently they've had articles asking the readers to come up with questions to ask certain developers and/or groups. A month or two ago I figured this wouldn't work for FreeBSD given the usual droll jokes about it being unpopular and dead, but recently there was an article where a few threads grew a lot of interest for BSD (several people asking/answering questions on BSD, with not serious flaming in sight), and I figured maybe something like this might work to get a little more recognition and understanding for the OS. Would this be something worth trying? Am I missing something obvious that everyone else has seen? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton