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Date:      Tue, 26 May 1998 20:13:29 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@nvl.virginia.edu>
To:        Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Cc:        Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, Ted Stein <ted@taki.net>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Braindead FreeBSD advocates (Re: Advocacy Shortcomings) 
Message-ID:  <Pine.HPP.3.96.980526195815.16941A-100000@huron.nvl.virginia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199805261556.IAA04155@rah.star-gate.com>

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On Tue, 26 May 1998, Amancio Hasty wrote:

> With respect to advocates, basically, the group needs to come up with a 
> few good themes or stories which can be backed up with data.

	Hear! Hear!

 	Some fresh stories would definitely be nice.  While beating the walnut
creek, yahoo!, snarnoff labs drums does make a pretty and compelling
sound, some new success stories that make people sit up and listen
aresorely needed, at least on my part.  Also firmer numbers where possible
would be nice.  (Yeah, I know we all want better numbers.)

	Are there any other impressive services using FreeBSD we can tout
as examples of FreeBSD's capabilities?  So far some people I have
described your voice-mail system to have definitely had their intrests
piqued.  It sounds like a server oriented application that could be in
tune with FreeBSD's other success stories.

	If we can get any of these written down, even better.  I try to
keep a copy of the FreeBSD news letters, #1 and now #2,  somewhere visible
at my desk.   If they catch someone's eye, I give them a copy and run off
another copy on our color printer.  

	I guess for such tailored stories though, we have to decide upon
our audience.  Some people react better to my explaniation to devfs and
layered filesystems than they do to network through put.  My guess is that
the tone should be directed a technical managers and their like.

	Adrian
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Neurosurgical Visualization Lab ->>| it would be FreeBSD.  Think about it.....
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