Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 21:19:43 -0400 From: Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com> To: Frank Pawlak <fpawlak@execpc.com>, rick@kris.wpi.edu Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Contact Datbases - Re: Project FreeBSD 98 Message-ID: <19980413211943.22246@vmunix.com> In-Reply-To: <199804132156.QAA01973@darkstar.connect.com>; from Frank Pawlak on Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 04:56:16PM -0500 References: <199804132152.VAA06167@kris.wpi.edu> <199804132156.QAA01973@darkstar.connect.com>
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On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 04:56:16PM -0500, Frank Pawlak wrote: > As of now the table is wide open, no set rules. In fact you can work > in more than one area is you'd like. So it's pick you poison ;-) > > And thanks for stepping up to the plate with some excellent skills. Okey. What would people think of creating a few contact databases? I'd like to see one of "FreeBSD Advocates", and also one of "Press Contacts". Obviously, the advocates database would list people that have expressed an interest in promoting FreeBSD - you would sign up on a web page. That way, we don't "loose" the team. The Press Contacts database would list various contacts at various news agencies (CNet, Techweb, Infoworld, etc..) and indicate things like "Are FreeBSD friendly", and so on.. I'm offering to host the databases, and create the web front end. In fact, I already started. I may get the prototype up by tonight (got exams to study for, but this is *wonderful* procrastination). Any other contact-like databases that we need? Organization is key right now, IMHO, and I think just "rallying the troops" to a centralized advocacy site would be a good idea. I'd also have things like PR Templates, Articles, etc. for people to generate promo material from. I already did my 1st draft of "Getting FreeBSD into Academia" that will be published in the newsletter hopefully. http://www.vmunix.com/advocacy/academia.html -Mark > > Frank > > > On 13 Apr, Rick C. Petty wrote: > >> Documentation: > >> > >> Public Relations: > >> > >> Product positioning > >> Advertising > >> > >> Distribution ( Customer Fullfillment ) > >> > >> Publications: > >> > >> Magazine Articles, Books, etc. > >> > >> Technical Support: > > > >> perfecting it. Volunteers are needed to get names in the various slots, > >> remember that this is a democracy. > > > > I would like to volunteer for help with work in any of these areas. I'm > > partial to help with tech support and distribution. I'd also like to do > > some real benchmarking with comparisons to other unices. Let me know where > > you want help. Thanks, > > > > --Rick C. Petty, aka Snoopy mailto: rick@kris.wpi.edu > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > C/C++/DBMS/SQL/Perl/Java/HTML http://kris.wpi.edu/~rick/ > > -- > > > ----------------------------- > > "At no time is freedom of speech more precious then when a man hits his > thumb with a hammer." > > -- Marshall Lumsden > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Mayo mark@vmunix.com RingZero Comp. http://www.vmunix.com/mark finger mark@vmunix.com for my PGP key and GCS code ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The problem is how do you build tools that understand your programs at a deeper semantic level." - James Gosling To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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