Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 10:09:06 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-advocacy <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: NOT FreeBSD Branding project recommendations Message-ID: <19981107100906.D499@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <364382BD.AEC35B90@softweyr.com>; from Wes Peters on Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 04:14:05PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811061408290.1191-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> <364382BD.AEC35B90@softweyr.com>
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On Friday, 6 November 1998 at 16:14:05 -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > "Jason C. Wells" wrote: >> >> On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Wes Peters wrote: >> >>> Maybe we should just put up a web page, with an "add an application" >>> form for each list? >> >> I don't know. It looks like the input has tapered off. I did not even spur >> a flame when I asked people to get busy. You did say that (loosely) "When >> input tapers off I will collate the list and put it to a vote." > > I don't think it's even had a chance to START. Maybe I'm drastically > overestimating the size of -advocacy, FYI, 255 entries in the list, some of which appear to be mailing lists. > but we've only had 6 or 7 replies so far, and I'd hate to cut it off > until after the weekend. If the reply rate doesn't pick up over the > weekend, I'll summarize the results and post them here. I think that the "form" idea (which could be pretty informal) is probably the way to go. > In the meantime, I've got an hour or so this afternoon; I'll go try to > put our current list together and post it back, so others can (hopefully) > add to it in a neat, orderly manner. You're obviously not expecting many products. Did anybody mention StarOffice? >> You can't please all of the people all of the time. This effort is unlike >> "-hackers" where people have technical reasons for doing things. > > It is much like hackers in that nothing gets done unless somebody owns > the problem. I came up with this idea, and have accepted ownership, and > will keep kicking and prodding and pushing, and will assume the lack of > loud opposition is the same as agreement. > > Like it or not, this is the only way to run an anarchy. ;^) By definition, there are plenty of ways to run an anarchy. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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