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From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
cc: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>, "Chris G. Demetriou" <cgd@NetBSD.ORG>,
        netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Something I noticed on the Yahoo site
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On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:

> The impression I take away from all this is "Nah, we don't need you." If
> this isn't the case, please enlighten me.

	The impression should be 'the ideas are good - is it possible
	for you to commit to at least part of the implementation'.

	We're not looking for someone to commit to spending their life (or
	life savings :), but as Herb says, we have more ideas than
	implementors.

	One though - people may be put off by the fact they do not know
	where to get 'official sanction' to start taking action.

	To abstract this one level - do we have anyone willing to maintain
	a webpage listing ideas and volunteers:
	
	eg: Ensuring netbsd has good coverage on search engines
	    Offering to turn up at conferences near them
	    Finding a source for NetBSD bezels.
	    etc.

	If we can't do this much, I think we're really in an unfortunate
	situation :)

		David/absolute

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