Re: IMPORTANT: A temporary list for Strategic

>>You are kidding right?
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>Not at all ... this is an open source, community project ... you are
>proposing (or, at least, that is how I'm reading things), that Marketing
>should somehow be done differently the the development of the code itself
>is done ... Peter, Bruce and I are all saying pretty much the same thing
>(again, as I'm reading things) in that Marketing should be planned/worked
>on no differently the the code itself, in an open, community manner ...
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1. Yet none of you are marketers. You are developers.
2. I am not suggesting in any way that this be a closed thing. I am
suggesting that we provided a directed
venue for communication for this project (the project of the flyers,
etc..). I am suggesting that we allow
a specific avenue for the communication, that doesn't deviate from that
direction. And actually JoshB
is suggesting it, I just agree with him.

Remember all those recent threads about MySQL and their marketing
prowess... this is what we are
talking about. MySQL marketing doesn't happen on the frito-lay crumbs of
a developers desk. It happens
in rooms with whiteboards, ties, coffee, cell phone and doughnuts.

As a community process we don't have the MySQL funding, offices, ties
etc... What we do have is the
technical capability to provide an on-topic list that is directed at a
particular subject for a temporary portion
of time to allow something to get done. Again, with review of course
from the community but without
all the white-noise.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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