Subject: Re: Thoughts for NetBSD 1.4 T-shirt
To: David Rankin <drankin@bohemians.lexington.ky.us>
From: Louis Bertrand <louis@signalpath.on.ca>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 04/13/1999 13:20:08
by redmail.netbsd.org with SMTP; 13 Apr 1999 18:02:11 -0000
by mail.GTS.NET (Smail-3.2.0.104 1998-Nov-20 #6; 1999-Mar-6)
(3617 bytes) via rmail with /P:uucp/R:inet_hosts/T:smtp
id <m10X7Vn-0008DSC@mail.GTS.NET>
(sender <tronix!signalpath.on.ca!louis>)
for NetBSD.ORG!netbsd-advocacy; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 14:02:15 -0400 (EDT)
via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:smart_host/T:uux
(sender: <louis@signalpath.on.ca>)
id <m10X6r2-0009LGC@tronix.signalpath.on.ca>
for <netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG>; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 13:20:08 -0400 (EDT)
(Smail-3.2.0.105 1999-Mar-3 #1 built 1999-Apr-5)
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 13:20:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Louis Bertrand <louis@signalpath.on.ca>
Reply-To: Louis Bertrand <louis@signalpath.on.ca>
To: David Rankin <drankin@bohemians.lexington.ky.us>
cc: netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Thoughts for NetBSD 1.4 T-shirt
In-Reply-To: <19990413125017.A12349@rumpole.bohemians.lexington.ky.us>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904131316480.9248-100000@tronix.signalpath.on.ca>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Don't forget Daemon News when you come up with a saleable product. Same
goes for any new releases of the OS itself.
--Louis
Louis Bertrand, Bowmanville, ON, Canada <louis@signalpath.on.ca>
DaemonNews: you read it here... first <http://www.daemonnews.org/>
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, David Rankin wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 03:53:46PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:
> > > > The image on the front sided will probably run into some copyright
> > > > issues... Something with the Daemon like the "other" (first) NetBSD Shirt
> > > > would be nice.
> > > How so, copyright issues? I'm curious. I thought we owned that image.
>
> > I don't know who exactly owns the (c) on the image, but the person doing
> > the shirts is definitely someone else, and this needs to be OK'd first.
> > I think.
>
> http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/disclaimer.html states that Shawn Mueller owns
> Copyright on the image. I tried reaching Shawn at the Email address on that
> page, but it bounced back. Can someone send me his current Email address
> privately?
>
> If I need to go to Kirk McKussick for permissions for the final design, I
> will do so.
>
> If there's another image that someone would prefer me use, feel free to send
> me a link to it. Or, if you've got an idea that's not yet drawn, draw it.
> (Here's an idea that an intrepid artist could do for this shirt: a band
> of Daemons, each playing their own instrument.) Unfortunately, I can't draw,
> so I'm stuck with other people's drawings, and the NetBSD Daemons happened
> to be the one I thought about first.
>
> As for a couple of other items: I know I'm missing some of the "experimental"
> ports, but from what I've seen in the NetBSD-1.4_ALPHA, the ports I listed
> are the ones formally releasing in 1.4. Since I'm going on the "Release tour"
> theme, I'd like to stick with released ports.
>
> I did think about "tour dates", but with our port count, that leads to
> a cluttered shirt. Plus, the only fair date would be the build date for 1.4,
> and if I do this shirt I'd like to get the design to the maker by May 1
> so that it can be to people by May 16. (That's also why I'm using "May 1999".
> No use making the shirt obsolete if the release slips a week... :)
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
> --
> David W. Rankin, Jr. Husband, Father, and UNIX Sysadmin.
> Email: drankin@bohemians.lexington.ky.us Address/Phone Number: Ask me.
> "It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble
> when you are praised is a great and rare accomplishment." St. Bernard
>