On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 09:20:30AM +0000, Stuart Herbert wrote: > On Sunday 06 February 2005 05:18, Grant Goodyear wrote: > > Recently there has been some discussion about the "official" nature of > > the GWN. Is the GWN an official Gentoo newsletter that promotes Gentoo, > > or is it a quasi-independent newsletter that is free to criticize as > > well as evangelize? > I believe that GWN needs to remain an official newsletter of the > Gentoo project. Its role should be to inform our community of what is > going on in Gentoo. Pretty much what it's been doing under successive > editors to date. I concur that GWN is important as an official publication, but it is still important that it is quasi-independent and not as it was put a 'party organ'. The constructive criticism is even more valuable than the evangelism, but both have their place in GWN. I'd say add more criticism, but don't take away any of the current evangelism.
> There's no need to go as far as evangelizing - we're a community distro after > all, *not* a commercial company with investors to satisfy and cash flow to > maintain. The quality of our code and the Portage tree should be what > counts, not how well we can spin something. While I agree with this, it is worth realizing that as most of the outside world is commercial, we are thus judged by our PR and spin. The announcements of interesting things we are even attempting to do gains us valuable interest. My boss would have never let me even evaluate Gentoo to run our infrastructure if it hadn't been visible that we were actively experimenting with things to get more value from Linux. Our PR and spin is what got him interested, and code quality is what enables us to stay in afterwards. -- Robin Hugh Johnson E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page : http://www.orbis-terrarum.net/?l=people.robbat2 ICQ# : 30269588 or 41961639 GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85
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