Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 17:28:39 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: [deb@thepuffingroup.com: FreeBSD Doc Project] Message-ID: <19990829172839.H73673@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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-doc, I received the following message very recently, and Deb's given me permission to forward it on the -doc list at large. This obviously reflects very well on every single contributor to the FDP. In the day to day grind of maintaining and extending the FDP I think it's all too easy to lose site of the quality of work that everyone's put in to this project over the years, and messages like this are a nice way of reminding ourselves how valuable and appreciated our efforts are. On a related note, I'd encourage everyone to go and read the OSWG web site (URL's at the bottom of Deb's message) and if possible sign up the mailing list. It's an attempt to bring the various documentation projects closer together, and to act as a meeting point for authors and readers of all the different *DPs to share ideas. Cheers, N ----- Forwarded message from Deb Richardson <deb@thepuffingroup.com> ----- Delivered-To: nik@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 22:39:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Deb Richardson <deb@thepuffingroup.com> To: nik@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Doc Project Hi Nik. I've been poking around the FDP a bit. I just wanted to say that I think you guys have done a fantastic job with that project, particularly with the way it's organized and maintained. The project is approachable, there's lots of information on the site about how people can get involved, what they can do, and how they can do it. Etc. I wish the LDP would take a lesson from the FDP. Thanks, btw, for mentioning the FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer on the OSWG list. The chapter on DocBook is the clearest presentation of that information I've been able to find. The Project Primer, as a whole, is very much like what I was envisioning when I mentioned the "New Contributor's Guide" on the OSWG list. I wish I had seen your Primer at that point, because I would have added a link to it as reference. As always, if there's anything the OSWG can do to help you guys out, let me know. - deb -- == Open Source Writers Group (OSWG) == http://www.thepuffingroup.com/oswg == deb@thepuffingroup.com ----- End forwarded message ----- -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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