From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 25 07:42:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA29173 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 07:42:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from out2.ibm.net (out2.ibm.net [165.87.194.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA29150 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 07:42:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwilde1@ibm.net) Received: from ibm.net (slip-32-100-79-90.ca.us.ibm.net [32.100.79.90]) by out2.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA54264 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 14:42:11 GMT Message-ID: <3541F5E1.373CF86A@ibm.net> Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 07:40:33 -0700 From: Don Wilde Reply-To: dwilde1@ibm.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: A name, please! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As many of you know, we are going to mount a FreeBSD+Apache effort to challenge the SPECweb96 (http://www.specbench.org) benchmark on June 26-28. We're going to hold it in Berkeley and make it a real media circus. History of BSD, the Freeware Movement, etc., etc., etc. We'll get national exposure for it, and we'll create some of our own. What the event will be is basically a publicly staged run of the benchmark, with big-screen videos and live 'net feeds and the whole 9 yds. We'll have a 10' high "thermometer" that will visibly show the results in lights as our numbers climb. The goal of the project is exposure and positive press for FreeBSD in particular and Apache and other freeware in general. It is not going to be a 'bash Microsoft' or 'bash Linux' or anything else; we'll take the high road. The press will make comparisons and grind their own axen for us. Our goal is to legitimize FreeBSD in the public's mind, and they're ripe for it because they hate MS and they've heard about this Linux thingie and now it's time to show them where the real true power of freeware lies. I need a catchy name for the event. SuperPowerFreewareFest doesn't quite do it... --> Don To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message