From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Mar 4 1:27:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2960314D18 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 01:27:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA43729; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 01:26:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: jarvis@guru.wow.aust.com Cc: Donald Wilde , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what's in a name? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 Mar 1999 13:32:39 +0800." <36DE1AD9.17789F39@guru.wow.aust.com> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 01:26:58 -0800 Message-ID: <43725.920539618@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > (I guess I'm just very cautious about writing anything for 'FreeBSD' > rather than just for me. So, I'll happily stand up and write about my > personal experiences and opinions and stuff in a public forum, but I'd be > much more cautious about writing, in some sense, on behalf of a larger > group...) You really shouldn't feel this way. From the perspective of advocacy, each and every one of you are more than free (encouraged, cajoled, wheedled, begged) to speak on its behalf. You should naturally try and get your facts as straight as possible and not attempt to speak "for" FreeBSD in the sense that you're making commitments or predicting future policy, but aside from that the field is open. Grab a ball and run with it! We've also tried "suggesting projects" in the past ("write about ipfw! write about natd! write about creating a monster porn server!") but this doesn't tend to work in actual practice since people are much more inclined to actually finish an article on something they're personally comfortable with. A randomly selected topic is not likely to find a good match. Why not instead write an article based more directly on your own experiences with FreeBSD? If you've not done anything "interesting enough", in your own estimation, then pick a project that interests you and make learning it and writing an article about the process a parallel set of goals. Ever wanted to learn Apache/php3? How about a comprehensive review of server-side scripting languages (on FreeBSD) and where you might use them? There are topics literally lying on the ground at your feet - what is your INTEREST, that is the important question here! :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message