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Date:      25 Jan 2003 09:58:52 -0800
From:      Peter Kieser <pfak@telus.net>
To:        Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.0 PR is not very good...
Message-ID:  <1043517532.651.1.camel@sharpie>
In-Reply-To: <20030125062732.GA92204@nevermind.kiev.ua>
References:  <20030125062732.GA92204@nevermind.kiev.ua>

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Heck, I can't even get a FreeBSD 4.5 box where I live. In BC, Canada.
I'd love to see it in the stores, I'd surely buy it if at all possible.

On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 22:27, Alexandr Kovalenko wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Just found very good article @osnews.com about PRing 5.0-RELEASE:
> 
> http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2650
> 
> You know, it is true.
> 
> I would like to start new initiative inside FreeBSD Project to promote
> FreeBSD worldwide. The aims and tasks of project will be:
> 
> 	- make press releases on all possible languages about significant
> 	  events in FreeBSD projects;
> 	- pass those press releases to all local mass media, either on- or
> 	  offline;
> 	- working together with publishers so that they will issue handbook
> 	  on local language (if avaliable);
> 	- working with authors to help them make _good_ books about FreeBSD,
> 	  not
> 	  bad-translated-handbook-not-having-any-clue-what-is-being-translated;
> 	- working with CD publishers so that they will issue FreeBSD boxes
> 	  (here in Kiev, Ukraine, I can find only different flavours of
> 	  Linux being sold, and only once I've seen 4.5-RELEASE 4CD box,
> 	  when 4.7 was out, I've asked consultant, and he said that they had
> 	  7 such boxen and sold them very fast (2 days)), there is demand
> 	  for such boxs everywhere, but, for example here in .ua we cannot
> 	  buy those 4CD boxes. Yes we can buy it from overseas, but pricing
> 	  is too high compared to our local salaries :/
> 
> I would like to ask if anyone interested in this?
> 
> P.S. Sorry for my very bad English, I hope you understood me.
-- 
Peter Kieser
pfak@telus.net

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