Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:24:32 -0800 From: Astrodog <astrodog@gmail.com> To: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> Cc: Julian Stacey <jhs@berklix.org> Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD Grow Large? Message-ID: <2fd864e050217072412ef0b18@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4212F72B.2020201@nbritton.org> References: <200502152327.j1FNRBQL041297@fire.jhs.private> <4212F72B.2020201@nbritton.org>
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 01:32:59 -0600, Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> wrote: > Julian Stacey wrote: > > > > > > >Presumably that includes some who hold commit privs mainly for the > >freebsd.org web site. > > > >It's tedious though, how much irrelevant hot air has been dumped > >onto advocacy@ Re. logo preferences, considering we won't get to vote ! > > - Apparently commiters will vote; Presumably advocacy@ will not. > > - Commiters are on the commit list, & current@, > > I guess just a low percentage of advocacy@ are committers. > > - Most commiters will probably ignore advocacy@ when they vote. > >Deduction: people with logo preferences should contact commiters > >who will vote, not this advocacy@ list that likely includes few voters. > > > >Readers of advocacy@ have limited choices: > > - Face reality, realise logo preference on advocacy@ is hot air, Or ... > > - Do a load of send-pr's & be individually invited to be a commiter to > > src/ ports/ doc/ or www/ who can vote, Or ... > > - Agitate for votes for advocacy@ members (little chance I guess), Or ... > > - Wait for commiters (who will ignore advocacy@) to choose Their logo, > > then advocacy@ individuals can ignore or include logo on non > > freebsd.org controlled BSD advocacy sites & events that advocacy@ > > readers organise. > > > >Best skip the irrelevant logo debates where our views are Not wanted. > >Best be more constructive, & discuss what we Can do: eg collecting > >content for web sites to promote business adopting BSD etc. Harvesting > >facts such as (paraphrasing) ... > > > > > Now that you got me thinking about it... There is no reason why a group > of us (I'll help) couldn't fork the entire FreeBSD website, doc, etc. > projects and redo or create everything thats needed for a better > Image/PR etc. Then just point the download links to the freebsd servers. > This way we can just side step all the bullshit and resistance where > getting. We could then merge the projects when they finally see the > light. If we really wanted to we could just rebrand the entire FreeBSD > project, having are own core/committers of web designers, > writes/editors, marketing and business people :-). I suspect that would not play really well with most FreeBSD users. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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