On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:58:29 -0500, Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
>
> You seem to have missed what Herb said. :)
>
> >> > But that's enough "we should"... Maybe our PR department needs
> >> > volunteers.

Not at all, just brainstorming out loud to get some feedback.  I'm
happy to volunteer and I thought suggesting some more specific ways to
attract attention would be helpful to note.

>
> .pm
>
> Alexander Chamandy <bsdfreak@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:40:19 -0500, Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org> writes:
> >> > But that's enough "we should"... Maybe our PR department needs
> >> > volunteers.
> >>
> >> It always does.
> >
> > I think Linus is, as some have suggested, just a FUD machine.  He'll
> > bash anything that doesn't have his name on it, so to speak.  I myself
> > try to put as much positive PR about NetBSD on my site
> > (www.bsdfreak.org), which has a considerable audience.  Sending a
> > letter to the editor is a fantastic idea (that Jeremy mentioned),
> >
> > I also think we all need to spend some time going on the offense and
> > working the media.  Writing articles for trade publications,
> > newsletters, giving interviews (where invited), even consider public
> > speaking.  Noone necessarily needs to be "sold" on an operating
> > system, but I don't think that's really what good PR is about.
> > Instead, I think it's about having people connect the name to a
> > positive message, the logo to what it stands for and hopefully have
> > their idea of NetBSD be accurate instead of distorted and negative.
> >
> > The interview with the NetBSD developers on NewsForge
> > (http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/22/1954233&tid=8&tid=29)
> > was a *very* good thing, for example.
> >
> >>
> >> Perry
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Alexander G. Chamandy
> > Webmaster
> > www.bsdfreak.org
> > Your Source For BSD News!
> >
>
> --
> Perry E. Metzger                perry@piermont.com
>

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Best wishes,

Alexander G. Chamandy
Webmaster
www.bsdfreak.org
Your Source For BSD News!