Re: It's time to shut down this list.

From: Nikolas Britton (freebsd_at_nbritton.org)
Date: 12/28/04

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    Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 10:31:49 -0600
To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>

    M. Warner Losh wrote:

    >In message: <41D18150.3030104@nbritton.org>
    > Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> writes:
    >: M. Warner Losh wrote:
    >:
    >: >In message: <41D16A0F.4000909@nbritton.org>
    >: > Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> writes:
    >: >: Unless your a member of core or have been at one time your voice is
    >: >: unheard...
    >: >
    >: >Clearly you have no idea about how core works. I've read every single
    >: >message in this thread, but have thought it better to let it run its
    >: >coarse to see what the consensus of the community was. That's clearly
    >: >listening to the voices of all those concerned.
    >: >
    >: >Warner
    >: >
    >: >
    >: >
    >: I was generalizing. but now that I got your ear what is the core team
    >: doing about PR and Martketing, and why is the "Public Relations &
    >: Corporate Liaison" seat open? see the "FreeBSD's Visual Identity:
    >: Outdated?" and freebsd foundation threads on -questions for more info.
    >
    >We are well aware of the issues here, and have talked about them in
    >some depth. We'd planned on launching our efforts to fix the
    >problems, if any truly exist, after the first of the year when people
    >are back from their holidays.
    >
    Thats good to know, sounds like some progress... keep us informed and
    I'm willing to help if needed.

    > Also, there's never been a PR seat, so
    >to complain that it is open is like complaining that the village idiot
    >seat is open... That critism is unwarranted.
    >
    Ok (sorry), then there is the first thing to fix, delete it from this
    page:
    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/staff-who.html

    >In the past, PR has
    >been done by the cdrom companies, but their monitary incentives for
    >doing that is now way down since cdrom sales have dropped so much over
    >the years. The FreeBSD Foundation is an independent entity, over
    >which core has no control.
    >
    >Warner
    >
    >
    >

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