From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 2 21:04:36 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8136E1065674 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 21:04:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ed@hoeg.nl) Received: from palm.hoeg.nl (mx0.hoeg.nl [IPv6:2001:610:652::211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 324658FC12 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 21:04:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ed@hoeg.nl) Received: by palm.hoeg.nl (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7BFB91CC40; Sun, 2 Mar 2008 22:04:34 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 22:04:34 +0100 From: Ed Schouten To: FreeBSD Advocacy Message-ID: <20080302210434.GB80576@hoeg.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: Subject: National mailinglists - why isn't it there yet? X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:04:36 -0000 --WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello everyone, I was just speaking with another dutch FreeBSD user (and developer) about FreeBSD mailing lists. I know so far most of the national FreeBSD user groups have their own infrastructure that doesn't use any services from the FreeBSD project (for example, the Dutch BSD User Group, D-BUG). Even though I am convinced the FreeBSD project should remain focused on developing its flagship product, the operating system, I think the community would have a great advantage if the project would already host national mailing lists, which should only be used for questions in the rare cases where the person doesn't understand English, but mainly to coordinate activities which have a national scope. These mailing lists could be used to discuss upcoming events and conferences, but could also be used for discussions about translations of the documentation. Is there a reason why such mailing lists don't exist yet? If not, what kind of procedures should one follow to create a mailing list for a certain language? --=20 Ed Schouten WWW: http://g-rave.nl/ --WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkfLFmIACgkQ52SDGA2eCwVUoACeJbsuGPUdsARs47/GOuKGDSrg T3IAnAhfcLnoOs+uppgqsvfKEXNH513i =ZCxi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd--