From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jan 22 15:51:58 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA04107 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 15:51:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from out2.ibm.net (out2.ibm.net [165.87.194.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA04102 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 15:51:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwilde1@ibm.net) Received: from ibm.net (slip-32-100-60-213.nm.us.ibm.net [32.100.60.213]) by out2.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id XAA178274; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 23:51:38 GMT Message-ID: <36A90D62.2E4FDB7A@ibm.net> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 16:44:34 -0700 From: Don Wilde Reply-To: dwilde1@ibm.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: core@daemonnews.org CC: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Daemon news Proofreaders References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Coleman writes: >> PS: Is it only me or is the enthusiasm fading for our >> magazine?? >Looking at our stats, it is slowly fading.... However, there has been >some increased attention by some outside people. We are getting lots of >requests for mirror sites and such. The big problems is that we have more >outside writers this month than regular writers. Speaking for myself, my *enthusiasm* hasn't faded, but my time has. Actually, I should think it's a big plus that we have outside writers clamoring to speak their piece. That should speak many (mounted!) volumes about the fact that the effort has been well placed and well received. In fact, I think the whole BSD advocacy effort has done much in the last eight months (has it only been EIGHT MONTHS?). Jordan and WC have ben inspired to make stickers AND peachy-keeno plates for our computers, the core team is -RELEASEing more than ever, faster than ever, and there's actually legitimate talk started by DaemonNews towards re-merging he source trees among the BSDen. It is true that many of us have made promises and commitments we haven't kept or have been shouted down on, and I've been guilty as Original Sin. I just want to point to the incredible rise in the perception of BSD in the last eight months. Eight months ago, BSD was down there with Algol and PL-1 as dead, dead, dead. Now we even see LinuxWorld writing that FreeBSD is a better Linux than Linux. What does that tell you? Somebody's doing something right, and we should all be proud and reenergize ourselves to go write some code ...err, articles. Cheer yourselves, guys, and realize that there are enough of you who are dedicated to be making a real difference, and that's what counts. We who have less dedication or more obligations do what we can, and because we care we make our needles count when we stick them in. Please direct further cheers to -chat; this isn't the place for them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message