From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 6 0:55:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mgw02.wxs.nl (mgw02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A44D6158BF for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 00:55:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from skywise@wxs.nl) Received: from po02.wxs.nl (po02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.41]) by mgw02.wxs.nl (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA06644 for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 10:42:00 +0200 Received: from webmail ([195.121.6.34]) by po02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with SMTP id AAA3312; Thu, 6 May 1999 09:55:41 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Brett Glass Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCWeek article by Anne Chen -- Comments X-Posting-Host: 193.67.139.1 [193.67.139.1] X-Posting-UID: skywise X-Mailer: Netscape Messenger Express 3.5 [Mozilla/4.51 [en] (Win95; I)] Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 09:55:41 +0200 Message-ID: <7727176F15A5.AAA3312@po02.wxs.nl> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >At 12:51 PM 5/5/99 -0500, Mike Avery wrote: >>As a FreeBSD newbie, I probably should look more before speaking, >>but advocacy and development require different skills. That isn't to >>say one person can't have both, but most often they don't. It seems >>that there should be a separate group handling publicity, evangalism, >>advocacy, and so on. And the group should be more open than the >>existing structure seems to be. > >Absolutely. And since marketing needs HOURS (communicating with humans >is MUCH more time-consuming than coding), there also needs to be a >financial incentive, at least for the primary marketers. I do not doubt that marketing costs time, but to put off coders like that is being as worse as people putting down PR activity... Coding take less time? Heh, I wonder if Matthew Dillon, Peter Wemm, Doug Rabson, David O'Brien and the likes all think that's correct... Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message