From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun May 24 16:06:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA28833 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 24 May 1998 16:06:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailhost2.u.washington.edu (mailhost2.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA28761; Sun, 24 May 1998 16:05:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmorrisn@u.washington.edu) Received: from don (D-128-95-141-170.dhcp.washington.edu [128.95.141.170]) by mailhost2.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.11) with SMTP id QAA03786; Sun, 24 May 1998 16:05:44 -0700 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980524160813.006e8e9c@dmorrisn.deskmail.washington.edu> X-Sender: dmorrisn@dmorrisn.deskmail.washington.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 16:08:13 -0700 To: Studded , "Jordan K. Hubbard" From: don morrison Subject: Re: A proposal for focus. Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <35689EB2.856DE36E@san.rr.com> References: <15760.896002665@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I think the problem is more fundamental than that. There is no clear >consensus on what "freebsd" wants to be. You've expressed part of that >here. Before you can do effective advocacy you have to have a group >consensus on what you're advocating for. Unfortunately right now people >are each advocating for their own view of what they want it to be, which >leads to the circumstances you describe. I think if we can establish a formal process for decision making within the advocacy group, a concensus can be reached. However the process of decision ratifies a concensus action, (by senior advocacy members, members of the core team, or what have you), I think it should be started with a show of hands from the masses.:) Jason Wells and I have been discussing engineering a survey page for the advocacy group that could be used as a formal voting process as well as for finding out where the group's interests are. (I plan to actually start writing the cgi for it after finals week is over.:) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message