Re: Lack of FreeBSD coverage in the UK media

2007-04-08 Thread Paul Waring
Daniel Seuffert wrote: But don't forget: It's hard work and you need people doing this work. That's the problematic part and that's the main reason imho why we don't have more media attention... Is there not a project (other than this mailing list) within the work of the FreeBSD Foundation to

Re: Lack of FreeBSD coverage in the UK media

2007-04-08 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Paul Waring wrote: Daniel Seuffert wrote: But don't forget: It's hard work and you need people doing this work. That's the problematic part and that's the main reason imho why we don't have more media attention... Is there not a project (other than this mailing list) within the work of

Re: Lack of FreeBSD coverage in the UK media

2007-04-08 Thread Jim Stapleton
From my end I've never given this a thought. Thinking about it now, I'd happily praise the virtues of FreeBSD in an article (giving proportionally equal time to it's drawbacks... few that they are), except I don't subscribe to any Linux mags, so I've no clue even what they would want. Maybe

Re: Lack of FreeBSD coverage in the UK media

2007-04-08 Thread Paul Waring
Jim Stapleton wrote: I'd happily praise the virtues of FreeBSD in an article (giving proportionally equal time to it's drawbacks... few that they are), except I don't subscribe to any Linux mags, so I've no clue even what they would want. The feeling I get is that actually a lot of these

Media coordinator? [was: Re: ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base. (fwd)]

2007-04-08 Thread Sam Lawrance
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

Re: Media coordinator? [was: Re: ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base. (fwd)]

2007-04-08 Thread Paul Waring
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. I think something like that would be worthwhile, not only is it much easier from the point of view of developers to have