Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 16:52:04 +1100 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com> Cc: Steve Clark <darkstar@aei.ca>, FreeBSD Chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Create newbie site? Message-ID: <19980216165204.54980@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19980215222705.17622@vmunix.com>; from Mark Mayo on Sun, Feb 15, 1998 at 10:27:05PM -0500 References: <34E79B1C.D39B7A7E@aei.ca> <19980216132627.38920@welearn.com.au> <19980215222705.17622@vmunix.com>
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On Sun, Feb 15, 1998 at 10:27:05PM -0500, Mark Mayo wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 01:26:28PM +1100, Sue Blake wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 15, 1998 at 08:49:17PM -0500, Steve Clark wrote:
> > > Hello everybody I am interested in building a complete newbie site to
> > > help the average user and complete beginner to the step over into
> > > FreeBSD. I am just wondering if the site would help and if it would be
> > > used by the general public.
> >
> [SNIP]
> > If a web site were a good idea (and I have reservations), it would need to
> > be done by someone who knows and awful lot about FreeBSD and how to
> > communicate with newbies, who has years of experience in both, and is
> > generally acknowledged as having those attributes. Considering the amount of
> > thankless work involved, I would be inclined to doubt the suitability of
> > anyone who would be willing to take it on :-)
>
> FWIW, myself and Chris Coleman are attacking something similar - simply an
> alternative free source of info for FreeBSD newbies. Our approach is to
> create an online book of sorts, with the possibility of it going to print
> if there was an interested publisher. This probably will never happen,
> and we'd only agree to it if we felt a book were "for the greater
> good of FreeBSD"...
>
> We've actually found that 95% of the feedback we receive (and we've literally
> received more than one hundred responses) is excellent.
Ah, but now I see that feedback is strongly encouraged, and _looks_ like it
would be given and taken on board. That helps address some of my concerns.
> I have countless mails from newbies in my INBOX thanking us for our
> work, so I'd have to disagree that the work is "thankless". :-)
> It can be quite rewarding actually!
I hope it remains that way :-) I'd better take a closer look at what you're
doing there.
The idea of a one stop new user site, or potentially several of them with
different advice, still makes me interested but nervous.
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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