Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 15:00:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian McGroarty <bvmcg@yahoo.com> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Marketing FreeBSD / FreeBSD as a pr Message-ID: <19990806220025.9847.rocketmail@web1003.mail.yahoo.com>
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You're going to trivialize this discussion? This issue here isn't just the mascot, but the packaging overall. This has been the case since my first post this morning. I posted our design and art staff's response to the packaging, of which only one point really leans on the daemon. The existing Walnut Creek packaging has all the pinache of your average clip art collection. You don't see this as a major problem where attracting new users and realizing new distribution channels is concerned? On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I think that there are already so many more obvious and > clearly detrimental shortcomings in FreeBSD's advocacy (lack > of books, magazines, trade shows and other press coverage) > that anyone looking at the mascot as an "issue" is a) > barking up the wrong tree and b) focusing their time and > energy in the wrong direction. > > In other words, if you want to make a clear and honest > difference then put your energy and words behind the real > problems. If you just want to waste time and give yourself > a false sense of achievement by tackling some proxy issue, > then worry about the mascot. > > Frankly, I don't think we have the time and energy to waste > on that kind of sillyness though. If you actually care > about FreeBSD's image and want to do something honestly > productive, write a book or a magazine article. _____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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