From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 17 08:23:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id IAA11465 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 08:23:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from tyger.inna.net (root@tyger.inna.net [206.151.66.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id IAA11456 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 08:23:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from dolphin.inna.net (jamie@dolphin.inna.net [206.151.66.2]) by tyger.inna.net (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA17829; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 11:33:57 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 11:22:09 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Bowden To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: HOSOKAWA Tatsumi , gjennejohn@frt.dec.com, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commerical applications (was: Development and validation tools...) In-Reply-To: <2437.853482056@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk If I can find the time, I would love to write something up. I don't have any coding skills to donate, but throw me some subject matter, and I will see what I can do. As an admin for an ISP whose primary mail/radius/dns server has a 135 day uptime, I am always looking for ways to thank you guys for the great job. On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Some FreeBSD users in Japan have wrote, and are writing FreeBSD books > > and magazine articles (last year, people in jp.freebsd.org talked > > about what we lack, and the conclusion is that it's good books and > > localized documentation. Japanese/Chinese sysinstall, Japanese > > Handbook, and Japanese online manual are the results of this > > discussion). This is the list of Japanese books and magazines about > > FreeBSD published in the fourth quarter of 1996. > > ... > > [Long list of cites which puts American and European efforts to shame] > > ... > > Perhaps, now what people need is good English book about FreeBSD :-). > > > No kidding! > > C'mon, all you native writers of english out there, we're being > completely shown up by jp.freebsd.org here, and they probably did more > in the 4th quarter of 1996 than we did for the entire year! :-) > > I think it's time for us to get off the stick, eh guys? :) > > I will commit here and now to having an article in at least one > well-known english language publication before Q2 of '97. I've also > already committed to helping Walnut Creek CDROM publish a regular > FreeBSD newsletter (for which all contributions will be highly > welcomed, BTW) which will be sent to all people on their mailing list > who've ever purchased a FreeBSD CDROM. > > Whomever would like to join me in doing PR this coming year is more > than encouraged to do so. > > Jordan > Jamie Bowden Network Administrator, TBI Ltd.