From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Mar 25 6:38:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from srv1.thuntek.net (srv1.thuntek.net [206.206.98.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B632151B2 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 06:38:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwilde1@thuntek.net) Received: from thuntek.net (abq-037.thuntek.net [207.66.52.37]) by srv1.thuntek.net (8.9.1/8.6.12TNT1.0) with ESMTP id HAA27035; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 07:37:53 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <36FA4A03.49892F97@thuntek.net> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 07:36:51 -0700 From: Donald Wilde X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: opsys Cc: Anton Berezin , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a call for s/w support References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks, Chris, for the cheer, but I have been asked in the interests of bringing in the most volunteer coders to use Perl. The evidence is solid that I'm already getting more offers for Perl support than I was with C++, and the reality is that I need willing fingers more than technical brilliance. Since, as you say, perl apps are not GPL, this is almost as good a showcase as pure-BSD-license would be. There will be other opportunities for that DTR, and most businesses would follow the same logic that the PTB have in suggesting the use of Perl: results now. It is also important to me that we use this to start encouraging people who are not UNIX/C++ gurus to start contributing and coding. The reality is that -advocacy has been mostly talk, with the exception of e-zines and a very few efforts beyond that. This is an opportunity to encourage people to begin becoming FreeSBD developers, in a 'safe' way, without the intimidation factor of either C or the whole commit process. -- Donald Wilde "Bringing the Internet to everyone!" Wilde Media 1380 Rio Rancho Blvd. SE #117 voice: 505-771-0709 Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124 e-mail: dwilde1@thuntek.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message