-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Boyes wrote: > On 4/28/09 5:09 PM, "Dan Langille" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> David Boyes wrote: >>> On 4/28/09 1:13 PM, "Zak Greant (Bacula)" >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Greetings Folks, >>> >>> My name is Zak Greant. I've been helping the Bacula Systems folks out >>> for the last month or so, mostly with a focus on community support and >>> Free Software/Open Source strategy and relations. >>> [snip] >>> Also, if this is a Bacula Systems thing, then they should be funding, >>> staffing and/or supporting it. >> David: was there something in particular which made you think the >> Twitter account was a Bacula Systems thing? > > In the first few paragraphs of his note, he says that he has been advising > the Bacula Systems people on community support et al.
Advising? Not in my reading. Regardless.. Perhaps you read too much into what was said. > Since this is the > first time I've seen this discussed in any public form, it's pretty hard not > to come to the conclusion that this is part of an advice package provided to > Bacula Systems, and thus originates from them. He also said that he had been > updating this thing on their behalf for several months.] The first post by @bacula was 9:37 PM Apr 14th by my reading. To date: 9 updates. http://twitter.com/bacula >>> As you comment, this mailing list isn¹t a forum for promoting >>> commercial ventures, and I would argue that if @bacula is to represent >>> the project, not the commercial company, then anything commercial >>> should be clearly separated and identifiable as such. >> I would think the @bacula should be governed by existing policies that >> cover the mailing lists. No new policy needs to be created. > > He asked if possible commercial announcements could be made. I think not. If > the @bacula Twitter id is to represent the Project, then it should not > advocate any commercial entity. Making commercial announcements under the > imprimatur of the Project using Twitter is just that, advocating a > commercial entity. I don't see any divergence between existing community policy and what you said. Bacula Systems, or anyone else, doesn't announce things here, unless my memory is selectively dismissing it. There were announcements regarding the establishment, etc, but that is to be expected. > Going back to the Twitter thing, if you're just going to post a URL, what > advantage does doing it through Twitter give you? I still fail to see the > point -- It's already been said, yes, by me, that you don't have to see the point. Either you get it, or you don't. Others do. Please don't stand in their way. :) - -- Dan Langille BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkn3m24ACgkQCgsXFM/7nTyCEwCfTR4uDhxYFzhvo1C/vkNWVH0F ADEAoOZ+HfCTZk/c9dFAIkbOpcc0ArIw =hlu/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
