From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 17 03:38:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A20E16A4CE for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 03:38:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0D0A43D49 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 03:38:22 +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); Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:34:49 -0600 Message-ID: <419AC7B6.7020204@daleco.biz> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:38:30 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041023 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: MIN RO References: <6303cb637c93.637c936303cb@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <6303cb637c93.637c936303cb@osu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Nov 2004 03:34:49.0843 (UTC) FILETIME=[647DB430:01C4CC56] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: general questions about FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 03:38:23 -0000 MIN RO wrote: >Hello, my name is Min Ro, and I'm writing an English paper on >open source and its potential benefits to society (not anything >too heavily in depth) Who may I contact to answer some questions >about FreeBSD, its community, its influence, etc? Thank you for your time. > > Some thoughts for you: Submit your mail to the advocacy list at freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org. You'll get some good responses there, I think.... There are a number of sites dedicated to FreeBSD advocacy and the like. A number of them have published interviews with committers, members of the Project Core Team, FBSD Foundation officer(s?), and even perhaps with one of the original 3 "godfathers" of the FBSD Project. You could probably quote from these interviews as long as you did your bibliography correctly. In particular, maybe daemonnews.org, bsdnews.com, bsdnexus.org. Probably the best, however, is the Project's main site ... there is a collection of Press items you'll see linkage to in one of the sidebars. Most of the committers have personal web sites, upon which they might have something you could use. There are a number of books on FreeBSD that are very popular among users ... search for "FreeBSD Book" and names like "Greg Lehey", "Annelise Anderson", "Michael Lucas" ... O'Reilly just published a pamphlet entitled "BSD Success Stories"; if you check the list archives (for the advocacy list), you can find someplace to download it. Might be worth a glance. There are some good, short pieces in it, and one awful one ;-) Google is also your friend ;-) Good luck! Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.