From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 9 14:35:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 453741065670 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2008 14:35:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bob@29west.com) Received: from sinclair.swishmail.com (sinclair.swishmail.com [209.10.110.64]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF6128FC20 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2008 14:35:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bob@29west.com) Received: (qmail 81675 invoked by uid 89); 9 Mar 2008 14:35:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Dyn130.In.VanValzah.Com) (bob@29west.com@64.81.228.121) by sinclair.swishmail.com with (AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 9 Mar 2008 14:35:11 -0000 Message-Id: <757B9D01-11FD-4D18-B1E4-FE7A3BFDFCF6@29west.com> From: Bob Van Valzah To: Erik Harperink In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 09:35:10 -0500 References: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LinkedIn Group? X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:35:14 -0000 Erik, I also found that the simple name "FreeBSD" could not be used. I also took action and created "FreeBSD Users" which produced the same 2 working day review mail. Will let you know how that goes. If that's accepted, I was thinking of also creating "FreeBSD Contributor" and "FreeBSD Committer" as well. I've shrunken the standard logo down to sizes required by LinkedIn. Perhaps it would be nice to have separate logos for FreeBSD User, FreeBSD Contributor, and FreeBSD Committer? I've done a bit of Googling to see if I could find the custom logo font produced by Anton Gural, but no luck. Any pointers there would be appreciated. Worst case, I suppose I could find some other font that's looks reasonably nice with the logo. Bob On Mar 9, 2008, at 4:29 AM, Erik Harperink wrote: > Op 9-mrt-2008, om 3:31 heeft Dan Langille het volgende geschreven: > >> On Mar 8, 2008, at 7:38 PM, Bob Van Valzah wrote: >> >>> If there were a LinkedIn Group for FreeBSD, I'd join it. Groups >>> are a new thing on LinkedIn and they seem to be quite viral and >>> good for marketing to professionals. I see many FreeBSD committers >>> already on LinkedIn. It's likely that they'd join too. I almost >>> created the group myself, but I'm probably not a good maintainer >>> for it. Not that it requires much work. Somebody in Advocacy or >>> Marketing should probably look into creating a FreeBSD group. Just >>> a tip. >> >> >> Good idea Bob. I think you just volunteered. Thank you. > > Hello Dan, > > I read your conversation with Bob and I decided to take action. I > received the following message from LinkedIn. The request for a new > FreeBSD group for LinkedIn is currently being reviewed. Within > approximately 2 working days it will be activated if everything goes > well. FreeBSD could not be used as a group name so I took the > liberty to give a new name. > > LinkedIn > > Hi Erik, > > Your request for a group Berkeley Software Distro Corner on LinkedIn > has been received and is pending approval. Please allow 1-2 business > days for our customer service team to review your group request. You > will be notified when your group has been approved or rejected. > > If you have additional questions, you may contact us at groups@linkedin.com > . > > Sincerely, > > LinkedIn > http://www.linkedin.com/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Darwin powermacg3series.local 8.10.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.10.0: > Wed May 23 16:50:59 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.21.3~1/RELEASE_PPC Power > Macintosh powerpc > > >