From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Feb 15 21:52:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA06814 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 21:52:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA06796 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 21:52:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA02304; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 16:52:06 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <19980216165204.54980@welearn.com.au> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 16:52:04 +1100 From: Sue Blake To: Mark Mayo Cc: Steve Clark , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Create newbie site? References: <34E79B1C.D39B7A7E@aei.ca> <19980216132627.38920@welearn.com.au> <19980215222705.17622@vmunix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <19980215222705.17622@vmunix.com>; from Mark Mayo on Sun, Feb 15, 1998 at 10:27:05PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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*- find / -name "*.conf" |more To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message