Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 13:06:30 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: Astrodog <astrodog@gmail.com> Cc: Julian Stacey <jhs@berklix.org> Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD Grow Large? Message-ID: <42163CB6.7040807@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <2fd864e050217072412ef0b18@mail.gmail.com> References: <200502152327.j1FNRBQL041297@fire.jhs.private> <4212F72B.2020201@nbritton.org> <2fd864e050217072412ef0b18@mail.gmail.com>
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Astrodog wrote: >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. > Thats the whole point ;-)
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