From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Dec 16 14:24:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0DDC157D4 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:24:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA63621; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:23:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Pat Lynch Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Bazaar part II In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 Dec 1999 08:31:43 EST." Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:23:57 -0800 Message-ID: <63617.945383037@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > OK, so we're all at the Bazaar , ok well theres only 5 or 6 of us, but hey > its a start, we've unloaded over 50 CD's , 6 beanie Daemons, one small > plushie Daemon and 4 or 5 mousepads, a toolkit cd, and a snapshot CD. > and we're making it know that despite the fact that this conference is so > Linux oriented, we're not about to let people forget us. This sounds like a more than reasonable achievement, folks - don't beat yourselves up! The fact that there was a tangible presence there at all is what should be applauded, especially once you do your homework a little and calculate just how many shows go by where there's little or no presence at all. It sounds like you've shown the Linux people who attended that the BSDs are still alive and kicking, and from such small seeds often grow many interesting things. :) > alamagamation of core team members names (or maybe we should just use > "Hubbix" (Jordan?)) as the OS name. Retch! > the rooftops. These kinds of activitiess thake alot out ot of us. After 3 > days I'm pretty burnt out. I wonder how Jordan does it, or is he burnt > too? ;) I'm definitely not immune to burn-out and that's why I wasn't in NYC this December. I had to take at least a month off. :) > Anyway getting back on track, he said, we've got some real technical > strengths over linux, but without he head-on approach in advocacy, he sees > it sinking. Eric has always predicted the falling of the BSD sky and I don't see how this latest commentary is inconsistent in any way with his previous positions. We can only but prove his pessimism to be misplaced by stubbornly refusing to sink. :) > He said that he thinks we *are* growing, and doing just fine. I think at > some point that were going to contact Walnut Creek or FreeBSD.org about > marketing the Complete FreeBSD and the 4 CD set. That would be great, have them drop us a line. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message