From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 8 14:42:15 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 8665C16A403 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2007 14:42:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@xk7.net) Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B4AF13C469 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2007 14:42:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@xk7.net) Received: from rankine.its.manchester.ac.uk ([130.88.25.196]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HaYLK-0004mh-Hs for advocacy@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:26:10 +0100 Received: from [82.153.166.36] (port=60741 helo=[192.168.0.2]) by rankine.its.manchester.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.43) id 1HaYLK-0005vF-90 for advocacy@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:26:10 +0100 Message-ID: <4618FB81.4090406@xk7.net> Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:26:09 +0100 From: Paul Waring User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070306) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: advocacy@FreeBSD.org References: <20070406054948.J30801@fledge.watson.org> <933A84DB-0654-43B9-93DE-F8762C41AC44@brooknet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <933A84DB-0654-43B9-93DE-F8762C41AC44@brooknet.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated-Sender: Paul Waring from ([192.168.0.2]) [82.153.166.36]:60741 X-Authenticated-From: Paul.Waring@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk X-UoM: Scanned by the University Mail System. See http://www.itservices.manchester.ac.uk/email/filtering/information/ for details. Cc: Subject: Re: 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 14:42:15 -0000 Sam Lawrance wrote: > 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. I think something like that would be worthwhile, not only is it much easier from the point of view of developers to have one person/group to contact about making new announcements, but also from my experience with another group (unrelated to BSD or even IT in general) I've found that it makes things much easier for the media if they have one point of contact for enquiries who can then pass on the request to the appropriate person within the group. > 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 think the submission part is the most difficult - plenty of people are more than capable of writing articles that would be of a publishable standard, but may not want the hassle of chasing up magazine editors in an attempt to get their material published. Paul