From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 10 12:14:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA11962 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 12:14:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from camnetbackup1.camnet.com.kh (camnetbackup1.camnet.com.kh [203.127.100.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA11909; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 12:14:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fred@madtec.com) Received: from nbfred (unverified [203.127.100.53]) by camnetbackup1.camnet.com.kh (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 02:13:57 +0700 Message-ID: <002c01bd64b4$bfe52bc0$35647fcb@nbfred> From: "Fred Muller" To: "David Shanes" , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , "Brett Glass" Cc: , Subject: Re:Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 02:13:29 +0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In reply to what Bret wrote: I'm not psychic.... I just subscribe to the right mailing lists and read a lot. I found out about the Linux events via the "Appraising Microsoft" list on Ralph Nader's essential.org site, for example. [...] I like the idea of scattering FreeBSD CD-ROMs to libraries hither and yon -- and also of having a little guy in a daemon suit at industry events. I think that regular press releases are essential -- as well as publicity on the major Internet news sites. C|Net has a bunch of good reporters who will recognize what's newsworthy; so do TechWeb, The Red Herring, and Wired. I propose that FreeBSD develop a PR team -- perhaps a group of volunteers coordinated by someone who's paid at least part-time. There should be a budget for hiring writers, for mailing, for FAXing, and for a speaker bureau. --Brett--------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- Hi, I've been following this discussion since the beginning and I feel like everybody says "well we should do that and this and that.." but nothing really happens (or maybe I'm missing some parts - which might really be possible). So is there anybody in charge? (sorry maybe this is also a stupid question, as I'm really new to FreeBSD) What I mean is that if you plan to do something there should be a coordinator (maybe elections then if any?), plans and of course funds. I think these kinds of battle need full time involvement. Raising fund should not be that difficult : you can sell T-shirts (I think RH does this already) or any kind of cheap items that FreeBSD users would purchase to support this action (anyway if this leads to a FreeBSD market share development, those people would easily get back their "donation" by "selling" their knowledge at a professional level). I don't really see what I can do myself (though I'd really like to help) as I live in South East Asia which is quite far from where things happen. Well that was just another comment to express my questions and feelings about what's happening. If I really said something stupid please forgive me... Fred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message