Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?
If we want to be taken seriously in the commercial world then we need to have the right image. Look ma, a strawman! The concern you're addressing is the sort of thing distros solved in the Linux world. Each typically has their own "image," installer, system config style, etc. More importantly for the "commercial world," though, they offer support and certification. The image alone just isn't the problem. Or a problem at all, I'd argue. Let's be honest -- if a ten-year-old made Beastie, then a mentally challenged 3-year-old made Tux (and large portions of the kernel, but I digress). Point being Johann, if the community rejects your work for the core project you can still make your own distro and release it. Give it a shot! Cheers, Sam ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Macromedia
Chad Gross gmail.com> writes: > > I know this has been an exhaustive topic as of late, but it needs to > be addressed. Flash should be supported in some fashion on FreeBSD and > now we can't even run the Linux plugin (not that it worked without > crashing Firefox constantly anyway). Their license is unacceptable and > we need to speak up. Maybe we could file a class action suit against > the monopoly they are creating here. I only run FreeBSD on my desktop > and they are trying to force me to run something else, which I find > appalling. FYI, I am currently working on trying to get FreeBSD added to the list of authorized operating systems so that we may continue to use the linux flash plugin. - Sam ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
UKUUG SysAdmin Conference in Mancheste, UK in March
It would be good to get some freebsd talks from people based in the UK - we had a number last year which worked very well. Given the time scale, feel free to offer a half-formed idea and supply more details later. Regards Sam __START__ UKUUG's annual Large Installation Systems Administration (LISA) conference will take place in Manchester from 19-21 March 2007 - www.ukuug.org/events/spring2007 This is the UK's only conference aimed specifically at systems and network administrators. It attracts a large number of professionals from sites of all shapes and sizes. As well as the technical talks, the conference provides a friendly environment for delegates to meet, learn, and enjoy lively debate on a host of subjects. Tutorial The conference will be preceded by a tutorial or extended workshop. Recent past conferences have included sessions on: Perl for Systems Administrators; IPv6; Linux HA; Perl 6; Samba. If you would like to offer a tutorial that might interest our target audience, please submit a proposal. Conference We already have talks lined up on migrating to and using xen, using wmvare, and 2 talks from xensource - the authors of xen. We also have talks about Perl 6, for those who use Perl and those who have users who use Perl. We're still accepting talks; so if you are a systems administrator, we want to hear from you. We are seeking papers covering all aspects of systems and network administration: * operating systems * security and audit * ethics and legislative compliance * storage solutions * network file systems * databases and directory services * authentication and authorisation * nomadic and wireless computing * benchmarking and performance tuning * configuration management * scripting and task automation * cluster management If you have a novel solution to a problem, experience of a particular application or hardware platform, tips and tricks for fellow systems administrators, or a favourite tool you could talk about, please submit a paper for consideration by the programme committee. We are especially interested in talks which include some aspect of "Virtualisation, large-scale resource management and flexibility", and aim to have a stream covering many aspects of this topic. Quoting Tim O'Reilly: I really think that everyone in IT is going to be dealing with virtualisation over the next few years. There's too many compelling resource and energy issues to ignore it. Significant Dates Initial closing date for abstracts: 5th November 2006 To offer a talk, or make enquiries about a partially formed idea, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more information see www.ukuug.org/events/spring2007 ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Media coordinator? [was: Re: ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base. (fwd)]
On 06/04/2007, at 7:51 PM, Robert Watson wrote: Now would be a great time to do some articles on this, speaking of which. :-) Pawel's e-mail doesn't make a great start for an advocacy piece because it fails to say what's good/important about ZFS, so the first task is to figure that out and construct a news article along these lines. For example, it has volume-management, self-healing, and the word "enterprise" can be tossed in easily. Would it be worthwhile to form a "media coordinator" role? I can think of two areas of value for this role: announcement coordination and media liaison. Announcement coordination would be provided as a service to our developers and the community. For example, before committing or MFC'ing some hot new feature, people can ask the media coordinator for assistance with the announcement. This might involve helping to draft the primary announcement, writing articles for submission to news sites, the sort of information described above by Robert. The work can be delegated, the key is simply to provide all the right information to the right people and channels when an announcement is made. Media liaison is around providing a single point of contact for media requests, to make it easier for people unfamiliar with the project to find their way to the right people and resources. Maybe this extends to writing articles (or finding people to do so), and submitting them to journals or magazines. I'm sure there are other areas of value. The two points above just spring to mind based on recent messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any thoughts on this? ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Media coordinator? [was: Re: ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base. (fwd)]
On 09/04/2007, at 10:48 PM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Sam Lawrance wrote: Would it be worthwhile to form a "media coordinator" role? I can think of two areas of value for this role: announcement coordination and media liaison. FreeBSD has a media coordinator -- it is made up of marketing professionals, book authors, active announcement and/or press release writers, freelance writers and a few others. Announcement coordination would be provided as a service to our developers and the community. For example, before committing or MFC'ing some hot new feature, people can ask the media coordinator for assistance with the announcement. This might involve helping to draft the primary announcement, writing articles for submission to news sites, the sort of information described above by Robert. The work can be delegated, the key is simply to provide all the right information to the right people and channels when an announcement is made. This is frequently done, but usually the marketing team contacts the developers. We do need to remind developers to contact the marketing team. Also the marketing team doesn't have defined goals or any set schedule -- and also no single person to accept responsibility. Nevertheless, the volunteer marketing team has done a good job over past couple years -- take note of the several press releases distributed. (In a few cases, press release writing and distribution has been paid for. Also I have personally contacted many print publications for several news stories over past couple years.) The effort is apparent - I think that most people here would have seen it, whether or not they recognised it as a product of the marketing team :-) Has the marketing team considered developing and working to a charter? Similar to portmgr, secteam, releng, and doceng? I noticed that the team is listed on freebsd.org/administration.html. There's no visibility from freebsd.org/marketing, which is where you may expect to find it. ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
mockup of BSD news/articles site
This is a one page mockup I have been fiddling with in my spare time: http://bsdtn.com/ There's no content, it's really just an exercise in the type of site I would like to see carrying sexy-looking FreeBSD news. Just throwing it out there for comments. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD user statistics
On 01/08/2007, at 12:10 PM, Sunnz wrote: So Australia has the highest number of BSD installations, that's quite surprising! IIRC, that's due to a large number of systems managed by one person or group, that are also set up to report to bsdstats. ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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