From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 24 09:06:37 2004 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 EF08816A4CE; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 09:06:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpq1.home.nl (smtpq1.home.nl [213.51.128.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 725CE43D49; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 09:06:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dodell@offmyserver.com) Received: from [213.51.128.136] (port=56442 helo=smtp5.home.nl) by smtpq1.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1ChlP4-0002qB-1X; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:06:30 +0100 Received: from cc740438-a.deven1.ov.home.nl ([82.75.136.183]:3048 helo=[192.168.1.42]) by smtp5.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1ChlP2-0003hu-Qc; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:06:28 +0100 Message-ID: <41CBDC13.2080707@offmyserver.com> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:06:27 +0100 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Olander References: <4BA256918ACE7449BD7896E65711C88B0D0AD042@1UPMC-MSX8.isdip.upmc.edu> <20041223134922.E1597@knight.ixsystems.net> In-Reply-To: <20041223134922.E1597@knight.ixsystems.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean cc: freebsd-www@freebsd.org cc: jsha cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated? 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, 24 Dec 2004 09:06:38 -0000 Matt Olander wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 04:41:02PM -0500, Person, Roderick wrote: > >>>I can ask my company if they will donate a 1U server (maybe >>>with the old >>>BSDi logo on it) if enough people are interested in entering a freebsd >>>advocacy website design contest. Winners could be decided by a vote on >>>the advocacy mailing list or by core or something. >>> >> >>I think this a great idea! I'd enter the contest. Ha! I see what you're up to! ;P > > ok! Devon, can you post the requirements or guidelines that you and > Murray had come up with when we discussed this last? I remember that > there were a few requirements involved regarding programming languages > or something. Yay, give me even more work to do ;). I'll dig through my old mails and see if I can find what I discussed with Murray. The general idea was that it would need to be something that would be trackable using CVS; we didn't really want to go down any sort of CMS route or use scripting languages, unless absolutely necessary. > my work has already approved the idea although I'm not promising much > for the 1U server ;) > > I used to hate the redhat site, but it looks like they revamped it since > I looked last and it's much nicer and easier to navigate now. maybe > Yahoo or Juniper will let us use their corporate logo for a "Juniper relies > on FreeBSD' type image. I'll ask them. or an animated gif cycling > through big corporate users. oh wait, now I'm giving away my design ideas! lol. > > I'll enter (even though my website design skillz aren't too great) but > anybody from my company will, of course, be exempt from the contest :P > > so, the goal for this will not be for internal freebsd user > use (although that's not out of the question, I'd think) but more for a > professional advocacy site, right? something appropriate to sell or show > off to middle/upper management exec types. > > Happy Festivus, > -matt This sounds about correct, although the discussions I had with Murray and other members of core@ (though, tbh, not many got involved) seemed to imply that it _would_ be for the main site. Have a good holiday Matt; this extends to the rest of you as well! Kind regards, Devon H. O'Dell