From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Mar 21 10: 1:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from servo.sjmarketing.com (adsl-64-173-218-10.dsl.renocs.nvbell.net [64.173.218.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D55A837B421 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:01:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.95] (lan95 [192.168.1.95]) by servo.sjmarketing.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g2LI1Hg52233 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:01:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bean@freebsd.org) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.1.3108 Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:01:12 -0800 Subject: Re: Review of the FreeBSD advocacy site From: Bean To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20020321094917.4401f1dc.chip@wiegand.org> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think the entire FreeBSD project site needs work... And I've been given the go-ahead to start working on it in my free time (what's that?!), with final approval from the core of course. Do you guys have any suggestions on features/design you'd like to see in a redesign? -Bean > From: Chip Wiegand > Organization: Homenet > Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:49:17 -0800 > To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Review of the FreeBSD advocacy site > > Well, it looks like Gerardo opened his big > mouth again, on Thu, 21 Mar 2002 08:11:23 -0600, and spouted out this: > >> I think the site is fine, a bit outdated in my opinion, but is a >> start. Maybe you could add some business cases from companies using >> FreeBSD, i would like to hear and official statement from the people >> at Yahoo telling the world their love story with FreeBSD in this days, >> add some links to benchmarks and reviews from some websites, a gallery >> showing how some everyday users smack their systems, maybe some >> pictures from the commiters machines, put some stuff like that and i >> think the site will be a complete success. >> Gerardo > > I agree whole-heartedly with Gerardo. My first impression was, hmm, > nothing new here, not too attractive, why would I want to come back? I > think the site definately needs new (and maybe even exciting) > information. Dressing it up a bit wouldn't hurt, even the text browsers > can view fancier sites just fine. I think it's a good start, but with > some work could be a site I would recommend to my non-*nix friends to > visit. Regards, > Chip W > www.wiegand.org > chip@wiegand.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message