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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:20:09 -0500
From: Calvin Vette <cvette@borders.com>
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To: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>, netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Community Issues ** LONG **
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Calvin Vette wrote:

> Herb Peyerl wrote:
>
> > Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net>  wrote:
> >  >
> >  > On 22-Feb-99 Herb Peyerl spoke unto us all:
> >  > #  This needs volunteers who will actually stick with it, be dedicated, and
> >  > #  form a real PR department.  I'm about sucked-dry as it is.
> >  >
> >  > Why not take the final step, and actually form a "PR department"?  Saying
> >  > "anyone can work on PR stuff" isn't quite the same as the pride of being an
> >  > official team member of some sorts.  Perhaps a NetBSD PR web page, with names
> >  > of people who are officialy active in setting things like this up.
> >  >
> >  > Having an offical departement gives those people a little bit more confidence
> >  > when dealing with others.  It would also give you (herb) a way to delegate some
> >  > of the PR opportunities you might see, but not have time to participate or
> >  > coordiante.
> >
> > Because PR stuff is generally terribly time sensitive and one recurring
> > problem we have with volunteers is people claiming to volunteer to do
> > something and then not actually finding the time to do it and then timing
> > out after some number of months... This is a non-option for PR work. So
> > far there have been no volunteers.  But yeah, I'd like there to be a PR
> > department.
> >
> > So Ding! I just made a PR department. Now what?
>
> You make a request for volunteers, of course!
>
> I'm volunteering to take on:
>
>         - actively produce material for Daemonnews
>         - more evangelizing
>         - make more devotionalia
>         - more wandering the net and getting NetBSD mentioned where FreeBSD
>           and Linux are.
>         - New logo/typeface and graphics
>
> as well as revamping the site, and keeping it current. David did a great job, but
> there are several
> things on the site that are embarrassingly out of date. (The projects list comes to
> mind).
> Keeping news flashes about direction, current projects, etc. coming regularly and
> accurately.
> Overhaul the entire web sight and graphic impression from installation.
> Possibly coordinating an MI installation with graphic consistency in mind.
> Overall, making sure the public gets a consistent public view of the product. (Let it
> appear completely
> unified, even if it is only 99% behind the scenes.)
>
> I can probably be goaded into other things as well.
>
> (BTW, thanks to whomever for moving this thread to -advocacy. Those double-posts were
> getting annoying :-)

For the web site, assuming David is willing to give up or share the work.