Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 21:18:10 -0500 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Jonathan Slivko <js43064n@pace.edu>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD spokesman (was: So what happens to FreeBSD now?) Message-ID: <20010702211810.B325@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20010626174756.A61831@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 05:47:56PM -0400 References: <200106260901.AA23134284@stmail.pace.edu> <20010626122845.A11960@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010626214230.D461@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <20010626174756.A61831@blackhelicopters.org>
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On Tuesday, 26 June 2001 at 17:47:56 -0400, Michael Lucas wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 09:42:30PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: >>> I'm not sure how you formed this speculation. Meaning no disrespect >>> to Jordan, his contributions to the FreeBSD OS are tiny compared to >>> the efforts of the rest of the developer team as a whole. FreeBSD >>> evolved beyond the point where one person carries the project a very >>> long time ago. >> >> Traffic on the mailing lists (or, at least, average message size) might >> drop a bit though :-) > > Hey, he said he still has 20 hours a week for FreeBSD! That's an > awful lot of email. :) > > Seriously, the one post I'd have any concern about is the "FreeBSD > Spokesman" that Jordan has been basically filling. It's not an > official title by any means, but if one of us press sorts wants a > quote on FreeBSD, we generally call Jordan. Hmm. There's a certain truth about that. It became quite evident at the FreeBSD BoF at USENIX last week. > I'm sure that Jordan will still be happy to spout off about > anything, though. > > We really could use a "presence", however. IIRC, jkh used to be the > FreeBSD President, which was very useful from a PR viewpoint. > Having "Mr. FreeBSD" was kind of nice. Maybe we can volunteer, say, > Greg Lehey for the job. ;) Well, thanks for the thought. > (/me looks for incoming fire from Australia, and ducks) /me wonders what makes mwlucas think that he's in Australia. Seriously, that's really a core team job. It's true that we have implicitly been letting jkh perform the function, mainly because he does it well, but if he starts doing it less well, we'll rearrange responsibilities. I don't think that anybody really thinks I'm a jkh replacement :-) Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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