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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 11:58:54 -0600 (CST)
From: Sean Berry at CSI <berry@neverland.chaney.net>
To: Todd Whitesel <toddpw@best.com>
cc: netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: NetBSD BEZELS README
In-Reply-To: <199812221148.DAA16475@shell17.ba.best.com>
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My FreeBSD 2.2.8 media (subscription) came in the mail yesterday from
Walnut Creek.  By some freak accident I ended up with two sheets of
stickers.  Of the last sheet I got, they ended up on everything, and I had
literally none left.  Of the last three sets of FreeBSD and Slackware
media I've gotten via subscription (SW 3.4 3.5 3.6, FBSD 2.2.6,7,8), every
single one is out on loan to various people learning the different
operating systems.  My NetBSD 1.3.2 media has been out on loan over a
month to a friend whose house router now runs NetBSD, and whom we started
out with a SS1+ running NetBSD ("What can we do with a sparcstation with
16M of memory?").  I just loaded NetBSD on a Macintosh IIfx I gave to a
friend.

A friend of mine apparently knows how to get bumper stickers made (it came
up in conversation when I opened up a RH 5.2 box and the www.redhat.com
sticker fell out), so we're going to do a trial run of those with a couple
of different NetBSD type logos.  

Not real organized, and thoughts composed over a couple of days, but.  

On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Todd Whitesel wrote:

> One more email today:
> 
> 	a dozen or so
> 
> The new total is "about 378".
> 
> -----------------------------------------------
> THERE IS MORE THAN ONE POTENTIAL BEZEL PROJECT.
> -----------------------------------------------
> 
> So far at least two people have stated a desire to work on bezels in January.
> If there are any more, I would appreciate it if those people would email me.
> 
> I am stuck between (a) volunteers with more seniority whose toes could get
> stepped on by competing bezel projects, and (b) everyone who's seen these
> bezel emails and presumes (understandably) that I am in charge of it all.
> 
> I am very willing to coordinate this, but I also do not want to wrest power
> away from the volunteers who've already put their feet forward and expressed
> a desire to make this happen. At the same time, I do not want to keep giving
> vaporware-like answers to everyone who asks me if I have pricing information
> yet. This is a no-win situation for me and I will not tolerate it.
> 
> Between now & christmas I will put up a web site devoted to information
> sharing about the bezel project. I will also be contacting everyone to
> obtain permission to put their quantity/totalcost preferences and email
> address on the web site. Anything I learn that might be of potential help
> to bezel projects will go up on this site as well.
> 
> Please understand that I really do not want to be sucked into a competing
> bezel project simply because I am sitting on the only known list of interested
> people. I was just trying to get the ball rolling so I could hand it off.
> 
> I will only take over if January 17th rolls around and I still don't see
> any solid progress on a Bezel design that I myself would buy.
> 
> Todd Whitesel
> toddpw @ best.com
>