Re: IMPORTANT: A temporary list for Strategic

You are kidding right?   

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 ...
 

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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