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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo usage in companies
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:54:31
Message-Id: 20090929005443.GB8424@comet
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo usage in companies by Patrick Lauer
1 On 13:58 Sat 26 Sep , Patrick Lauer wrote:
2 > Hello everybody!
3 >
4 > As Gentoo approaches its 10th birthday I've been wondering how and where it is
5 > used. We used to have some great stories from companies in the weekly
6 > newsletter, but that one has become very dormant a while ago.
7 >
8 > I'd like to collect your success stories, endorsements and case studies so we
9 > can present to the rest of the world how using Gentoo makes your life easier
10 > and is totally awesome. If you don't want to have that information public I'll
11 > gladly anonymize it as long as I can be reasonably certain that you really
12 > exist. What is important is that you, if you actively use it in a commercial
13 > environment, write me whatever you think is important. Or you motivate someone
14 > you know to write it. Do your contribution to making things better :)
15 >
16 > Everything from "I use it and it's great!" to a story starting on a rainy day
17 > in November 1885 is good. Don't be afraid, I'll work with you on making it
18 > into something readable.
19 > And if you have specific criticism I'll take that too - maybe we can find an
20 > easy way to improve things. That is in your best interest too, so go ahead.
21 > Invest a few minutes of your time so we can save you more time!
22 >
23 > I would suggest that you _don't_ reply to this mailinglist but directly send
24 > me an email. Otherwise it'd be a long, but very offtopic thread which I'd like
25 > to avoid (and we had enough of those already ...)
26 >
27 > Many thanks in advance for your contributions,
28
29 You should send this to gentoo-announce. You're not catching the right
30 audience here.
31
32 --
33 Thanks,
34 Donnie
35
36 Donnie Berkholz
37 Developer, Gentoo Linux
38 Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com