Re: DragonFly BSD marketing

2005-08-17 Thread Danial Thom
--- Bob Bagwill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:10:44 -0400, Chris > Pressey > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree strongly with your underlying theme, > although I'd characterize > > it slightly differently. It's not just about > marketing, which sounds > > sort of fri

Re: DragonFly BSD marketing

2005-08-16 Thread Bob Bagwill
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:10:44 -0400, Chris Pressey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I agree strongly with your underlying theme, although I'd characterize it slightly differently. It's not just about marketing, which sounds sort of frivolous and underhanded... it's actually about governance. Governa

Re: DragonFly BSD marketing

2005-08-16 Thread Chris Pressey
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 14:18:31 -0400 "Bob Bagwill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marketing, a nine letter word ... > > Not that I'm an expert, but I think it's important that Matt and his > merry band make it clear what they want from the DragonFly project, > and what prospective users/developers ca

Re: DragonFly BSD marketing

2005-08-16 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Bob Bagwill wrote: Marketing, a nine letter word ... Basic rule of open-source marketing, you don't need it when the product speaks for itself, when inserting energy you can choose (within a overlapping degree) between marketing or improving the product. My suggestion for open-source proje

Re: DragonFly BSD marketing

2005-08-16 Thread Thomas E. Spanjaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob Bagwill wrote: | - Total world domination. Totally. And then our solar system, the Milky Way, etc. Seriously, what are your intentions with this post? Getting more developers/users out there to know us? It might be beneficial, but would one rea

DragonFly BSD marketing

2005-08-14 Thread Bob Bagwill
Marketing, a nine letter word ... Not that I'm an expert, but I think it's important that Matt and his merry band make it clear what they want from the DragonFly project, and what prospective users/developers can expect. Notice that I wrote "project" not "product". In an open source proje