From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 4 12:07:50 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89777106572D for ; Sat, 4 Apr 2009 12:07:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwolsen@domainatlantic.com) Received: from vms173005pub.verizon.net (vms173005pub.verizon.net [206.46.173.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A0FB8FC15 for ; Sat, 4 Apr 2009 12:07:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwolsen@domainatlantic.com) Received: from Inbox ([72.59.104.71]) by vms173005.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPA id <0KHK002DKPJSCGUG@vms173005.mailsrvcs.net> for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:07:15 -0500 (CDT) Message-id: <0KHK002DNPJVCGUG@vms173005.mailsrvcs.net> MIME-version: 1.0 From: Christopher Olsen Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:07:22 -0400 Importance: normal X-Priority: 3 To: Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: Appliance certification X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 12:07:53 -0000 I have been asking around to see if there is a committee that certifies app= lainces, servers, workstations, etc?=20 I manufacture several BSD based systems and I'm sure there are many others = that do as well and it would be really great to get the BSD community bless= ing for it and put a little logo sticker on it similar to what MS does. If there is no such thing I would like to start such a committee and would = love any support in that if possible. -Christopher =