Re: DragonFly BSD marketing

["Bob Bagwill" <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:10:44 -0400, Chris Pressey  
<cpressey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Governance sort of implies that there are agreed-upon principles that a
cohesive community shares.  I think marketing is a better fit for the  
chaotic
open source bazaar. ;-)  In a way, DragonFly is trying to sell itself,  
firstly, as
a neat project to work on, and secondly, as a robust-yet-innovative  
platform
for computing.  I don't think DragonFly needs to market itself in the  
sense of
selling DragonFly-logo mousepads and tee-shirts (although they'd probably  
sell :-) ),
I think it needs to make clear why you would want to a) choose to work on  
it, and b)
choose to run it, over the alternatives.

--
Bob Bagwill