From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Nov 5 23:10:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA26479 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 23:10:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason05.u.washington.edu (jason05.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA26469 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 23:10:51 -0800 (PST) (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+UW98.06) with ESMTP id XAA54462; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 23:10:40 -0800 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+UW98.06) with ESMTP id XAA10202; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 23:10:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 23:10:23 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Wes Peters cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: branding recommendations In-Reply-To: <36426650.66564522@softweyr.com> 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 Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Wes Peters wrote: >Folks, please note how I changed the subject line since this isn't >on-topic for the original discussion. I know I'm harping about this, >but you're going to make it much more difficult to collate real >recommendations from angst-ridden diatribes in the end. Thank you for taking the bit and getting this going. It is going to be hard to get all of this "opinion" in here moving in a well defined direction. >The main idea here is to get vendors to add FreeBSD logos to their >web pages. While I'm not opposed to awarding logos to *anything* >that runs on FreeBSD, I'm not sure we need to try to stick a daemon >on ls or make. Fair enough. >On the other hand, we do want OUR web page touting FreeBSD applications >to be complete, nay even exhaustive. So I'll leave the above on the >list, and we'll work on fleshing out the accompanying list of applications >as the web page comes to life. Many of those non-commercial applications >have web sites of their own, and might be willing to (ahem) chuck a >daemon on their page. ;^) Even exhaustive. Even people like the author of 'xmcd' can help us get mindshare while we help them get users. The list for ports is quite long. You'll note I did not list them individually. I am having a hard enough time keeping up with the sickly one in the handbasket. :) Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message