Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 22:51:00 -0500 From: Lanny Baron <LBaron@freebsdsystems.com> To: Mit Rowe <mit@mitayai.org> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Grants Message-ID: <41B3D724.8060804@freebsdsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <41B3C01C.4060602@mitayai.org> References: <41B3C01C.4060602@mitayai.org>
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Hi Mit, Perhaps we can help. Contact me at your convenience. Regards, =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Lanny Baron Proud to be 100% FreeBSD http://www.FreeBSDsystems.COM Toll Free: 1.877.963.1900 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Mit Rowe wrote: > Hi, folks! > > I'm Mit, and i've been your ca.FreeBSD.Org hostmaster for many years. > I'm pretty quiet on a international scale, but i've been active as a > local advocate for the FreeBSD community in every community i have > involvement in since a copy of FreeBSD 2.0 landed on my desk in early > '95. > > I have also considered it my duty to encourage FreeBSD mirrors in > Canada, but I have been constantly frustrated by my ability to have > corporations provide long-term resources to the FreeBSD Project in > terms of WWW, FTP, and CVSUp mirrors of the FreeBSD releases, source, > and documentation. > > This frustration has led me to think of turning to the government of > Canada, starting from the Communications Research Centre (an agency of > Industry Canada) and working my way up, looking for either them to > host the FreeBSD mirror or provide a grant to someone to do so. > > However, before i speak for the FreeBSD Project, i believe that i am > honour-bound to request feed back on my intent and method; therefore, > i ask your feedback, comments and advice on the following letter i > think i should send first to info@crc.ca and see what kind of feedback > i receive from them (which i would report back). > > Also, perhaps any lurking Canadians out there could hold up their > hands? I sometimes feel pretty lonely out here in this corner of the > world :-) > > Regards, > Mit > > Here's the text of the letter in English (i'm also going to write it > in French, our other language of government in Canada, in case any of > the potential readers are francophone). Please comment as soon as > possible. > > ===== > > > My name is William Rowe, commonly known as Mit Rowe, and i am a > Canadian member of the FreeBSD community and serve in the capacity of > Hostmaster for the FreeBSD Subdomain. > > FreeBSD is, as the website http://www.freebsd.org/ describes, > > "...an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium > and Athlon), amd64 compatible (including Opteron, Athlon 64, and > EM64T), Alpha/AXP, IA-64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC® architectures. It is > derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of > California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large team > of individuals > <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/index.html>. > Additional platforms <http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/index.html> are > in various stages of development." It is a freely available, > opensource operating system with no restrictions on commercial use. > More information of the licenses can be found at > http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html. The core > documentation of FreeBSD is available in both national languages, as > are large chunks of ancillary documentation. > > I have worked in the ISP and IT industries for over a decade, and am > well aware of the prevalent use of FreeBSD in Canada, in both the > private and public sectors in corporations large and small, Internet > Service Providers and non-profit, charitable, governmental and > educational institutions. > > The level of interest and use warrants the existence of resources to > install, configure, maintain, upgrade and support the operating > system, which can be done through the allocation of resources for > mirroring the FreeBSD source and documentation in order to make more > efficient use of global Internet resources. > > The use of public funds to support a free platform which runs much of > the infrastructure of our nation is both a way of supporting the > existing infrastructure and making it easier for Canadians to support > and further develop this technology, and will also serve to help > increase and support our international reputation as a center for > Technology and Communications, and the pride that we IT professionals > feel in for the country which we are honoured to be able to call our > home. > > With respect, > Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe > Toronto, ON > mitayai@ca.freebsd.org > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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