Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 08:46:38 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com>, Ray Seals <rayseals@midwestis.com>, Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au>, "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Let's nail some things down. Message-ID: <19981030084638.A25247@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981029163008.0099a950@genesis.ispace.com>; from Drew Baxter on Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 04:31:54PM -0500 References: <Pine.SOL.4.02A.9810291354000.2411-100000@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au> <001101be0382$c4615ee0$1a1e10ac@rseals.midwestis.com> <4.1.19981029163008.0099a950@genesis.ispace.com>
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On Thursday, 29 October 1998 at 16:31:54 -0500, Drew Baxter wrote: > At 03:26 PM 10/29/98 -0600, Ray Seals wrote: >>> On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jason C. Wells wrote: >>> >>>> "FreeBSD Native" is good but perhaps nerdy. >>> >>> Not necessarily. I can picture a very cute chucky, dressed up like a >>> fierce tribal warrior, holding a trident instead of a spear. I think >>> it'd look quite cool if that had an attached 'FreeBSD Native' on it. :) >> I like the tribal warrior look. I also like the 'FreeBSD Native' wording. >> I think that there should only be 2 classifications. We just need to >> continue to adhere to a strict quality control standard before these are >> issued. This is a great opportunity for us. > > Just as long as we don't end up with a Holy War, or people thinking they're > being offended or whatever, all's well. At the same time, 2 is good > enough, and 3 is excessive. Works With should just be "requires minimal > modification".. If it requires too much modification, the designer should > put it in themselves in another tree or something of the CD. How about not issuing emblems for the third class, just putting them on the web site? That way we'll have enough space and time to explain the pitfalls to potential purchasers. At the same time we'll have more (I didn't say much :-) leverage to get the vendors to include whatever it takes on their distribution. 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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