Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 22:32:44 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Stuart Krivis <stuart@apk.net>, "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, phil grainger <freebsd@pronet.net.au>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: copyright Message-ID: <358200EC.9EDAB78A@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980612001710.285A-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> <v0401170ab1a72a84a92b@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>
> I still think this mailing list suffers from the name that was
> given to it. In usenet heirarchies, the "advocacy" newsgroup
> is where to send all the endless philosophical discussions, or
> name-calling, or platform-religion topics that no sane person
> wants in the "real" usenet discussions. It is, by definition,
> a garbage-collection of topics.
>
> Here, the advocacy mailing list is meant to be a serious list
> with a real purpose: figuring out how to make FreeBSD more
> acceptable to more people, and how to connect with people who
> would be well-served by running FreeBSD (if they only knew
> more about it to try it out).
>
> So, I think this is a bad name for a serious mailing list, but
> even after a few weeks of thinking about an alternate name I
> haven't thought of anything which would be notably better...
You're exactly right, the charter of this mailing lists is more in
line with the "technical evangelists" at Apple in the past. I
hope we're somewhat less rabid (and more reasoned) than the Kawasaki
Corps, though.
I hesitate to call this an "evangelism" project, because it tends
to offend "churchy" people, and those offended by churchs. Silly,
but true.
A quick trip through an on-line thesarus turned up nothing of real help.
"FreeBSD Missionaries" conjures up visions of a large stew pot with Jack
Velte hot-tubbing his way to millions; not exactly the light *I* want
to protray us in. ;^) "FreeBSD Advocates" sounds a little too much
like a software licensing law firm. Sigh. Perhaps we should adopt
a Klingon word or something? An obscure latin phrase?
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com
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