From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Apr 27 14:07:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA07356 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 14:07:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason05.u.washington.edu (root@jason05.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA06923 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 14:06:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul9.u.washington.edu (root@saul9.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.7]) by jason05.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id OAA22588; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 14:06:02 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul9.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id OAA02318; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 14:06:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 13:04:43 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: Don Wilde cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Popular Press and Newsletter Was: [SPECweb] secret In-Reply-To: <354415D7.E4203555@ibm.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Don Wilde wrote: >Jordan has suggested articles for the popular press as a Really Good >Thing, and I agree. I have a good one in the back of my mind and I have >done professional writing in a previous incarnation, so this is what I >will concentrate on as my primary focus. That darn Jordan. His Coreness is always trying to be sensible and pragmatic. No wonder FreeBSD is so good. I think this approach is a good one. The essence of BSDism is not glitz, IMHO. Hey! Consider this. There is a certain _newsletter_ that really needs some more production. That mechanism is already in place. Let's officially place the newsletter under the jurisdiction of -advocacy. It could be a precursor to a very useful "Linux Journal" type document. Thank you, | Try some of this. It will show you where you're at. Jason Wells | http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message