From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Feb 6 07:59:20 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA21926 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 07:59:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA21921 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 07:59:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id HAA18768; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 07:59:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OK, here's the $10,000 question. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 06 Feb 1999 17:03:01 +0100." Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 07:59:10 -0800 Message-ID: <18765.918316750@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Just curious, why should the Project need a full time advocacy person given > the OpenSource/Free OS type of approach for the project? Because doing good advocacy is 99% grunt work (organizing shows, writing press releases, calling reporters on the phone) and it's a full-time job besides. Expecting a volunteer to do very grunty work for at least 40 hours a week is not very realistic. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message