Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 16:49:23 -0600 (CST) From: BJ Bell <brian@centrisys.com> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: "The Project" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980322162602.1243A-100000@erebus.artificers.net>
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Okay, this list seems to be getting LOTS of traffic now. I got back from work today and had 42 messages, most from this list. Anyways, let me continue. I will take the initiative of getting the ball rolling on "The Project." First let me tell you all a little about me, and the ideas I have for this project. I am roughly a 3-4 year unix user. I've run just about every free (and some not free) unix clones out there. Throughout my experience linux has dominated my 486sx/33 :P. Now I have a small lan running both linux and freebsd (and maybe NT soon). I have organized and been editor in chief of a few online publications that never got noticed. I also was the original founder of I/O Magazine (some of you may have heard of it, its hosted by www.antionline.com and got roughly 2000+ readers per issue), until i had some disagreements about the content and and purpose of the publication and quit. I have always liked writing with the goal of educating those who were like me when I first started off. I know C and have done some unix application programming, I know some perl and am learning more, I can do html and cgi, and i have access to a dns server and web/ftp/shell hoster for hosting mailing lists, web pages, and virtually what ever I desire :P. However, I lack funds and help. Now for my ideas (sorry this is so long). Ok my feelings are that the freebsd manual and howto are nice, but not good enough. IMHO the freebsd documentation team should focus less on putting out multiple formats of a couple of documents and worry more about putting out lots of documents (linux does just fine with ascii and html alone) I have read the manual and howto and they are OK, but what I would like to do would widen the whole scope and cover things in more detail. I realize many of you are truely newbies and not really experienced with unix, etc but that is always the type of people I like to recruit because they know how to write for people like themselves. I will be responsible for organizing the effort. I think that we should split the workload into little pieces and cover lots of different topics. People who have certain interests (ie cryptography, coding, hardware, etc) should be responsible for writing howtos and tutorials on issue that stay within that scope. Anyways, these are just some of my ideas, im open to others and ready to get things started when other people are ready to put forth work. Like I have already written, I have web space, I have a dns server that can point domain names, i have the means to setup a list primarily for this project. It all depends on how many interested people I can actually get to work :P. I'll let all this sink in for a week and then start collecting names and organizing ideas, etc. Give me your feedback. Im usually on undernet in #hack, I'll be the handsome dark-eyed stranger wearing the nick 'Artificer'. BJ ---- No Compromise (No Regrets) BJ Bell (aka Artificer) brian@centrisys.com ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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