From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 4 22:15:56 2005 Return-Path: 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 E3BFC16A4CF for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 22:15:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D5A543D4C for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 22:15:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 16:19:31 -0600 Message-ID: <4228DE18.9040103@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 16:15:52 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Olander References: <9C4E897FB284BF4DBC9C0DC42FB34617641B6B@mvaexch01.acuson.com> <20050303141130.E56544@knight.ixsystems.net> <42279CB4.9060304@daleco.biz> <20050303151220.H56544@knight.ixsystems.net> <20050303152558.I56544@knight.ixsystems.net> <868y53l6hw.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050304092905.A65546@knight.ixsystems.net> In-Reply-To: <20050304092905.A65546@knight.ixsystems.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Mar 2005 22:19:32.0014 (UTC) FILETIME=[3D3314E0:01C52108] cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cool, Matt! X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 22:15:57 -0000 Matt Olander wrote: >On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 05:29:15PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > >>Matt Olander writes: >> >> >>>Me: Hi, this is Matt calling on behalf of the FreeBSD project, [...] >>> >>> >>That was a gross misrepresentation. >> >> > >Yeah, now if only we can get more and more people to misrepresent >themselves :-P > >-matt > > I guess it's possible that it was a "gross misrepresentation", but why should we be seen as picking on Matt? (Maybe you're not, I can't say as I can tell just by reading). I'd characterize his advocacy of FreeBSD as "visible and valuable", and in the US many people believed Leo Laporte when he said "they're both members of the FreeBSD Project" in regard to Matt and Brooks Davis. Leo may have been wrong, but he apparently believed that Matt (and Brooks) represented the Project. At the very least, they were doing so on that TV show.* Maybe I misinterpret? Heck, this could be an "inside joke" I'm sticking my nose into. I"m sure not trying to offend anyone. Ok, then ... advocacy: I note that Pixar is looking for a Render Farm sysadmin. Maybe we need a FBSD guy in that job.... Kevin Kinsey {*It kinda begs the question of who one is representing when (s)he advocates FreeBSD, and at what point one's contributions make him/her part of the "Project". The "contributing" article, for example, states in part: "The Project includes documentation writers, Web designers, and support people." By that definition, since somebody on doc@ has committed some text I typed to the doc tree, I could say, "I'm part of the FreeBSD Project".}