Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 16:26:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Frank Pawlak <fpawlak@execpc.com> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Project FreeBSD 98 Message-ID: <199804132126.QAA01740@darkstar.connect.com> In-Reply-To: <29092.892387190@time.cdrom.com>
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Hello all, This is the replacement of the former thread Promoting FreeBSD - -the users piece of the action. That title was long and I didn't think properly reflected our goals. Of course the new one may not be much better, but at least it's shorter. Someone please think of a better one. This is a democracy folks, so please feel free to make suggestions, changes or anything that you feel will get this effort up to speed as soon as possible. Viewing the posts regarding this project, there appears to be a fairly general feel amoung us for our goals and objectives. A mission statement and plan to reach our objectives should be the next priority on our agenda. Once that is documented and aggreed upon, we can begin matching resources to tasks and kick off the project. So, there is much to be completed and the great minds out there in userland are inventited to think hard about these things so we can come together as a team and begin our march to victory. I have given some thought to an organizational structure paterned somewhat on that used by the development team. The idea is that an organizational structure will provide focus for the various activities, eliminate duplication of effort, maximize resource utilization, and produce the desired impact on the future of FreeBSD given the resources available to us. This is subject to change as better ideas surface, but for now looks as follows: I have broken the project down into five areas of activity. The scope of each area is left as a work in progress. Each area should be headed up by a coordinator that does not really assign tasks within the area, but coordinates the efforts of the people working within the area. For example two different people simultaniously write a press release to the some publication. We want each individual within each group to be free to utilize their talents in ways they feel most comfortable, but we must eleminate duplication of efforts or doing things half cocked where we look like fools. Quality control and professionalism is of prime importance. The coordinators would form a commitee to decide on direction, objectives, settle differences of opinion, and whatever else may arise as we go along. Probably no one individual has power over the group as a whole. The five groups shake out like so: Documentation: Public Relations: Product positioning Advertising Distribution ( Customer Fullfillment ) Publications: Magazine Articles, Books, etc. Technical Support: A sales function should be included as a functional area, but there are still outstanding issues reqarding WC CDROM that are still unaccounted for. This is a first draft of our structure and all are invited to work on perfecting it. Volunteers are needed to get names in the various slots, remember that this is a democracy. Frank -- ----------------------------- "At no time is freedom of speech more precious then when a man hits his thumb with a hammer." -- Marshall Lumsden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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