From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 14 13:33:32 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA04220 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Mar 1995 13:33:32 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA04189 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 1995 13:33:20 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA08332; Tue, 14 Mar 95 13:02:53 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9503142002.AA08332@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: BSD Consortium To: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 95 13:02:52 MST Cc: faulkner@devnull.mpd.tandem.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9503141908.AA02923@olympus> from "Boyd Faulkner" at Mar 14, 95 01:08:10 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > The initial list of goals I put up shouldn't step on any directional > > toes, specifically to avoid any conflict between FreeBSD, NetBSD, or > > BSDI (or anyone else who would be interested). > > I am not so worried about the goals as if there is any interest in having > common goals from the NetBSD side. A one member, FreeBSD, consortium > would be pointless. If NetBSD is interested for any reason, then there is > a point. I haven't heard anything that says that they are. If we cannot > gain a united front on this issue, hunting for other members further > from home is going to be much harder. Has the question been put before > them? I believe that there would still be benefit in having a united wallet that would pay for things like BSD promotion and publication of a BSD journal, or whatever a steering committee might decide would be advantageous to BSD as a whole (trade shows, articles in trade rags and professional journals, etc., are some examples). No formal approach has been made to the NetBSD camp, other than their members who monitor these lists likely being aware that a discussion is in the offing. This is one of the reasons I've suggested a crossposted article and not a mailing list would be the next step. What are FreeBSD's short, medium, and long term goals that should be presented in such a crossposted article when the Consortium proposal is made? Other than pointing at "the things everyone talks about but no one does anything about" which a Consortium could make it profitable to actually do something about (a Journal publication, press relations, and a forum for keeping at least rough binary compatability between the various camps), which are the goals I _suggested_, what goals would you personally put forth? Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.