[osol-mktg] Proposal: s/Marketing/Evangelism/

Phillip (Flip) Russell Phillip.Russell at sun.com
Thu Oct 6 10:48:54 PDT 2005


I think that Marketing and Evangelism are very different things.

While things are small right now, there is heavy overlap.
But that should change in the future as the communites grow
and I'm sure the community at that time will have clear
boundaries between the two.

Ben Rockwood wrote:
> I'm curious what everyone thinks about the possibility of changing the 
> name of this community from OpenSolaris-Marketing to 
> OpenSolaris-Evangelism?  I can easily see arguments both ways.  For 
> those of us external to Sun we're clearly in the Evangelism camp, 
> however those at Sun are keeping feet planted firmly in both worlds.
> Would a name change be a good idea?  More importantly, would it change 
> anything or just symantics?
> 
> This may not be an important proposal, but I think its a valid 
> discussion that we should engage in.
> 
> 
> Ideas?  Thoughts?
> 
> benr.
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