Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 23:27:17 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Licia <licia@o-o.org> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is there a "how did you hear about us?" form on www.freebsd.org? Message-ID: <370AECB4.71D34B54@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904011850430.26408-100000@o-o.org>
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Licia wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > > Licia wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > > > > > > > > We had originally discussed an entire web section for branded products, > > > > with click-through to their site(s), to cross-advertise the availability > > > > of FreeBSD branded products. We would offer this page as a target for > > > > their products sites as well. I imagine FreeBSD Mall will be very > > > > interested in carrying commercial products that are FreeBSD branded as > > > > well, if suitable financial arrangements can be agreed upon. > > > > > > > > > > I think that is a good idea as well. Not what I meant by banner, but still a > > > very good idea. Would there be any interest in a similar section for freeware > > > authors who support FreeBSD and apply the branding to their efforts? > > > > In our original discussion, the products were sorted by "Native FreeBSD" > > vs. "Emulated", rather than price tags. A native port of Gnome would get > > "higher" billing than a Linux version of DB2, as it should. ;^) > > > > So freeware authors would be able to get listed in the branded software area > on the web site? Yes!! > Would there be criterion on size/quality of a branded > project, or could someone write a clone of echo and get listed? :) Common sense, hopefully. I wouldn't expect to brand "echo", but perhaps a suite of utilities like psutils could be, if somebody wants to brand it. There is no reason why programs like XV and Ghostscript couldn't be, for instance. > > A relatively good example of how to do something like this is BeWare. Check > > out http://www.be.com and click on the BeWare link. We could offer the > > commercial firms additional incentives through FreeBSD Mall, giving them > > targeted exposure to interested buyers. > > > > (nods) an interesting site, and I do think we could learn a lot from it. > My main concern isn't the commercial developers though. As our numbers grow > and FreeBSD becomes better known, such support is nearly inevitable I think. I > worry more about keeping FreeBSD 'in the loop' as far as freeware support, and > enticing people to use FreeBSD as a native development platform, any thoughts > on how the branding effort could be used there? The purpose here is to get "application" vendors to put FreeBSD logos on their products and their web pages. Hopefully the web page entries will be linked to our web page, and the "box" logs will include a URL or something like that. The idea here is to advocate FreeBSD, after all. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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