From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 13 19:12:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA21879 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 19:12:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailgw02.execpc.com (mailgw02.execpc.com [169.207.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA21789 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 02:12:20 GMT (envelope-from fpawlak@execpc.com) Received: from darkstar.connect.com (xeros-1-148.mdm.mke.execpc.com [169.207.91.150]) by mailgw02.execpc.com (8.8.8) id VAA19865; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 21:12:14 -0500 (CDT) Received: from darkstar.connect.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by darkstar.connect.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA02565; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 21:12:12 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199804140212.VAA02565@darkstar.connect.com> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 21:12:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Frank Pawlak Subject: Re: Contact Datbases - Re: Project FreeBSD 98 To: mark@vmunix.com cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980413211943.22246@vmunix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is great. Thanks for the great idea. We have accomplished quite a little in just a couple of days. I am already working myself out of a job. Such is the life of a consultant << big G >> Frank On 13 Apr, Mark Mayo wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 04:56:16PM -0500, Frank Pawlak wrote: >> As of now the table is wide open, no set rules. In fact you can work >> in more than one area is you'd like. So it's pick you poison ;-) >> >> And thanks for stepping up to the plate with some excellent skills. > > > Okey. What would people think of creating a few contact databases? > I'd like to see one of "FreeBSD Advocates", and also one of "Press > Contacts". Obviously, the advocates database would list people that > have expressed an interest in promoting FreeBSD - you would sign up > on a web page. That way, we don't "loose" the team. > > The Press Contacts database would list various contacts at various > news agencies (CNet, Techweb, Infoworld, etc..) and indicate things > like "Are FreeBSD friendly", and so on.. > > I'm offering to host the databases, and create the web front end. In fact, > I already started. I may get the prototype up by tonight (got exams to > study for, but this is *wonderful* procrastination). > > Any other contact-like databases that we need? Organization is key > right now, IMHO, and I think just "rallying the troops" to a centralized > advocacy site would be a good idea. > > I'd also have things like PR Templates, Articles, etc. for people to > generate promo material from. I already did my 1st draft of "Getting > FreeBSD into Academia" that will be published in the newsletter hopefully. > http://www.vmunix.com/advocacy/academia.html > > -Mark > >> >> Frank >> >> >> On 13 Apr, Rick C. Petty wrote: >> >> Documentation: >> >> >> >> Public Relations: >> >> >> >> Product positioning >> >> Advertising >> >> >> >> Distribution ( Customer Fullfillment ) >> >> >> >> Publications: >> >> >> >> Magazine Articles, Books, etc. >> >> >> >> Technical Support: >> > >> >> perfecting it. Volunteers are needed to get names in the various slots, >> >> remember that this is a democracy. >> > >> > I would like to volunteer for help with work in any of these areas. I'm >> > partial to help with tech support and distribution. I'd also like to do >> > some real benchmarking with comparisons to other unices. Let me know where >> > you want help. Thanks, >> > >> > --Rick C. Petty, aka Snoopy mailto: rick@kris.wpi.edu >> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > C/C++/DBMS/SQL/Perl/Java/HTML http://kris.wpi.edu/~rick/ >> >> -- >> >> >> ----------------------------- >> >> "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 > -- ----------------------------- "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