From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 8 12:50:33 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: advocacy@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6991016A402; Sun, 8 Apr 2007 12:50:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from boris@brooknet.com.au) Received: from pecan.exetel.com.au (pecan.exetel.com.au [220.233.0.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EDFA13C46A; Sun, 8 Apr 2007 12:50:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from boris@brooknet.com.au) Received: from 180.205.233.220.exetel.com.au ([220.233.205.180] helo=[192.168.0.148]) by pecan.exetel.com.au with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HaVsM-0000yn-3N; Sun, 08 Apr 2007 21:48:06 +1000 In-Reply-To: <20070406054948.J30801@fledge.watson.org> References: <20070406054948.J30801@fledge.watson.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <933A84DB-0654-43B9-93DE-F8762C41AC44@brooknet.com.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Sam Lawrance Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 21:48:04 +1000 To: advocacy@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) Cc: pjd@FreeBSD.org, Robert Watson Subject: Media coordinator? [was: Re: ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base. (fwd)] 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: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 12:50:33 -0000 On 06/04/2007, at 7:51 PM, Robert Watson wrote: > Now would be a great time to do some articles on this, speaking of > which. :-) Pawel's e-mail doesn't make a great start for an > advocacy piece because it fails to say what's good/important about > ZFS, so the first task is to figure that out and construct a news > article along these lines. For example, it has volume-management, > self-healing, and the word "enterprise" can be tossed in easily. Would it be worthwhile to form a "media coordinator" role? I can think of two areas of value for this role: announcement coordination and media liaison. Announcement coordination would be provided as a service to our developers and the community. For example, before committing or MFC'ing some hot new feature, people can ask the media coordinator for assistance with the announcement. This might involve helping to draft the primary announcement, writing articles for submission to news sites, the sort of information described above by Robert. The work can be delegated, the key is simply to provide all the right information to the right people and channels when an announcement is made. Media liaison is around providing a single point of contact for media requests, to make it easier for people unfamiliar with the project to find their way to the right people and resources. Maybe this extends to writing articles (or finding people to do so), and submitting them to journals or magazines. I'm sure there are other areas of value. The two points above just spring to mind based on recent messages to advocacy@. Any thoughts on this?