From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Mar 8 21:14:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F87C14FE6 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 21:14:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id WAA07738; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 22:14:00 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990308214810.03ea4650@localhost> Message-Id: <4.1.19990308214810.03ea4650@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 21:49:01 -0700 To: jarvis@guru.wow.aust.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: what's in a name? Cc: stox@enteract.com In-Reply-To: <36DE10DF.3F57D6A7@guru.wow.aust.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:50 PM 3/4/99 +0800, Jarvis Cochrane wrote: >"Kenneth P. Stox" wrote: > >> On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Amancio Hasty wrote: >> >> > Perhaps if have a a SWAT press team to attack or educate those lazy >> > reporters they may think twice about only writing about L****. >> > >> >From my experience with the Press ( New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The >> Wall Street Journal, to name a few ), you would be amazed at how little >> they actually write. Instead, paraphrasing press releases and other >> material that is sent to them by "interested" parties. Why do yo think Red >> Hat has gotten so much press, they are feeding the media. We must do the >> same. What we need is a team of writers. We need to spoon feed them. > >Hey, this is something I can _do_! > >I've been looking for a way to contribute to the BSD and Open Source cause... > >Who do I email? We need a more coordinated effort here. Releases need to be timed to coincide with events, and need to come out regularly. Want to form a press release "team?" --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message