Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 12:51:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Coleman <chrisc@vmunix.com> To: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, brian@pobox.com, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Marketing FreeBSD / FreeBSD as a pr Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908091251000.17479-100000@vnode.vmunix.com> In-Reply-To: <19990806223121.T10541@forty-two.egroups.net>
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My wife is currently working on a FreeBSD 4.0 CD cover. Her work will not be free, but it should be very good. Chris Coleman Daemon News Editor in Chief http://www.daemonnews.org Bringing BSD together On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Gregory Sutter wrote: > Jordan, > > You know how you're constantly talking about having huge numbers of > things that need to be done, and nobody actually doing them? Well... > > >On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 05:48:44PM -0700, Brian McGroarty wrote: > > > If the advocacy team wants to work on turning the FreeBSD > > > 4.0-RELEASE release into a major event, I'll contribute articles > > 1. Brian will 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 > > 2. Brian will pay the bill for cover artwork for a CDROM. > > > > help strategize a nice PR maneuver to coincide with release. I > > 3. Brian will assist with PR, something that is sorely needed. > > > > *strongly* believe in FreeBSD, and I'll do what I can to help it > > > along. > > 4. He is planning unspecified future help in addition to the three > things above. > > On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 09:51:31PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I've also said many times that anyone with better artwork to suggest > > need only step forward with said artwork and I'd be more than happy to > > consider it - where do you think the original "daemon walking out of a > > CD" artwork came from? > > You didn't say it to him. > > > I've also since spent around $1500 commissioning various bits of > > artwork which nobody seems to like, so if people really have a jones > > to see new artwork they're going to have to start drawing it and > > sending it in because I'm tired of throwing money away. > > You won't have to throw money away. Brian has graciously offered > to have it drawn at no charge to FreeBSD or Walnut Creek. > > > > 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 > > > > Of course we realize that, we're not idiots. However, I fail to see > > how your original comments attacking the daemon constitute a "positive > > contribution" to changing this. > > This was a preliminary suggestion, and was quickly withdrawn when the > result of the suggestion became apparent. Not everyone is intimately > familiar with the innards of BSD culture. A lesson was learned, and > the other offers still extended. You are fixating on one point, and > that point was a quickly dropped part of an offer to do service for > the FreeBSD Project. I cannot believe that you are so hostile > toward potential contributions. You should reread and think about > this offer again, if it's not too late. > > Greg > -- > Gregory S. Sutter Computing is a terminal addiction. > mailto:gsutter@pobox.com > http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ > PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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