From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 29 20:14:10 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 A83BE16A4CE; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:14:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91.asp.att.net [63.240.76.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4049743D39; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:14:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (12-223-129-46.client.insightbb.com[12.223.129.46]) by sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91) with ESMTP id <20041229201409i9100rfrjse>; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:14:09 +0000 Message-ID: <41D3100C.7070709@nbritton.org> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:14:04 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041219) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-www@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: getting the attn of core 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: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:14:10 -0000 I think we got the attn of core, yes? M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <41D18150.3030104@nbritton.org> > Nikolas Britton writes: > : M. Warner Losh wrote: > : : >In message: <41D16A0F.4000909@nbritton.org> > : > Nikolas Britton writes: > : >: Unless your a member of core or have been at one time your voice > is : >: unheard... > : > > : >Clearly you have no idea about how core works. I've read every single > : >message in this thread, but have thought it better to let it run its > : >coarse to see what the consensus of the community was. That's clearly > : >listening to the voices of all those concerned. > : > > : >Warner > : > > : > : > > : I was generalizing. but now that I got your ear what is the core > team : doing about PR and Martketing, and why is the "Public Relations > & : Corporate Liaison" seat open? see the "FreeBSD's Visual Identity: > : Outdated?" and freebsd foundation threads on -questions for more info. > > We are well aware of the issues here, and have talked about them in > some depth. We'd planned on launching our efforts to fix the > problems, if any truly exist, after the first of the year when people > are back from their holidays. Thats good to know, sounds like some progress... keep us informed and I'm willing to help if needed. > Also, there's never been a PR seat, so > to complain that it is open is like complaining that the village idiot > seat is open... That critism is unwarranted. Ok (sorry), then there is the first thing to fix, delete it from this page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/staff-who.html > In the past, PR has > been done by the cdrom companies, but their monitary incentives for > doing that is now way down since cdrom sales have dropped so much over > the years. The FreeBSD Foundation is an independent entity, over > which core has no control. > > Warner > > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"