Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 17:48:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian McGroarty <bvmcg@yahoo.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Marketing FreeBSD / FreeBSD as a pr Message-ID: <19990807004844.28425.rocketmail@web1001.mail.yahoo.com>
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I'll meet half-way on this. If the advocacy team wants to work on turning the FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE release into a major event, I'll contribute articles on how it's helped me develop for the Nintendo 64, foot the bill to enlist a couple artists' help in producing a nice cover and help strategize a nice PR maneuver to coincide with release. I *strongly* believe in FreeBSD, and I'll do what I can to help it along. But first TPTB need to accept that marketing and presentation are every bit as important as anything else in realizing broad distribution. Even breaking in media takes something that looks exciting. A cool logo, nice box cover or attractive screen shot is enough to affect the creation of an article just because a publisher wants to print a picture that's going to sell that issue to someone browsing the magazine. I can't be helpful if someone as visible as Jordan is going to call this a proxy issue or accuse me of selecting this because it's a fluff task. I'm not going out of my way to move my production work to FreeBSD, working through tapes of McKusick's kernel internals courses or spending my evenings digging through OS theory texts because I'm in the mood for "fluff." I believe in what's happening here, and I believe that the more wide-spread FreeBSD becomes, the more Lamberts, Dillons, Williams, McKusicks and other such personable people the project will attract. We all benefit and learn when people of that calibre join the project, regardless of by what means they initially discovered it. --- Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> wrote: > Brian McGroarty wrote: > > > > You're going to trivialize this discussion? This issue here > > isn't just the mascot, but the packaging overall. This has > been > > the case since my first post this morning. I posted our > design > > and art staff's response to the packaging, of which only one > > point really leans on the daemon. > > > > The existing Walnut Creek packaging has all the pinache of > your > > average clip art collection. You don't see this as a major > > problem where attracting new users and realizing new > > distribution channels is concerned? > > At this time, it *is* a trivial point. Your packaging doesn't > matter > until you actually have people looking for the product, which > we > don't yet. Spending four hours writing an article that gets > published > ANYWHERE would be much more valuable than spending four hours > drawing > a new logo. > > Now, if you wrote an article about designing a new CD-ROM > cover... _____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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