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----- Original Message ----- From: "David J. Orman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, June 7, 2006 3:11 pm Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] You are Invited! Birthday Blog Party on June 14th! > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dan Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wednesday, June 7, 2006 1:49 pm > Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] You are Invited! Birthday Blog Party on > June 14th! > > > On Tue 06 Jun 2006 at 04:50PM, Dan Price wrote: > > So... 24 hours gone by and I've heard (privately) from only one > person> about this proposal. Is anyone planning to blog on the > 14th? I'm > > trying to gauge the apparent lack of interest... > > The only people I know who blog are a few Sun-diehards (jamesd for > example) and @sun people. I didn't respond because I don't blog, > and nobody I know (except the previously mentioned people) blog. > It's not so much a lack of interest on my part, it's just that > blogging isn't how I'd handle the birthday. :) I didn't want to > derail your thread, so I didn't comment. > > > To ask it another way: if what I proposed isn't good, what > adjustments> need to be made? > > Add something to your proposal that doesn't involve blogging. To > explain, some people (such as myself) generally thing blogs are a > waste of space on the internet. Of course, that is completely my > opinion, and quite obviously a lot of people disagree. To each > their own! This isn't intended to start an argument, please don't. > The point is, I am excluded from your grassroots b-day movement, > because I don't blog/don't condone blogging. I would suggest > instead of limiting it to blogging, you open it up to other areas. > News sites, etc. I'd be glad to put a little blurb about the > birthday on my business's main page, something like: "We run > Solaris and wanted to point out how far things are progressing with > the OpenSolaris community, it's been a year and OpenSolaris is > still gaining momentum. The OpenSolaris community is full of > innovation and technical capability, and our infrastructure > benefits greatly! We want to take the time to thank all of the > community members that make our a > bsolutely amazingly reliable servers possible, and let all of our > clients know that we will continue to interact and work with the > OpenSolaris community to keep improving our systems." > > However, you want to write it, something like this. The key is not > limiting the scope of the grassroots movement you suggest we start. > > Cheers, > David > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
