Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 17:46:57 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Help wanted with article series "Trawling the Ports Collection" Message-ID: <20021009081657.GJ1415@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20021009075043.GF934@k7.mavetju> References: <20021009030926.GG1415@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20021009075043.GF934@k7.mavetju>
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On Wednesday, 9 October 2002 at 17:50:43 +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 12:39:26PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> A few months back I started writing a series in Daemon News entitled >> "Trawling the Ports Collection". The idea was to show off some of the >> neat things in the Ports Collection which people might otherwise gloss >> over. >> >> Things didn't quite turn out the way I wanted. I found that it took a >> long time for me to find interesting ports, more time than I had >> available, and the result was decidedly second-rate. > > Aha, there you have the problem. What is an interesting port? Interest is in the eyes of the beholder. > I think that you should specify a target audience before you can say > ask for "the best ports". The best ports for system administrators > is different as the ones for network-guys and the ones for > programmers and the ones for for gamers and the ones for people who > are interested in webdesign. Basically, just about anything's interesting. > So, pick a target-audience and it would be easier to write an > article for it. And no, you don't have to do the same > target-audience each time :-) I was thinking of picking a port and letting the target audience pick themselves. Games are definitely fair game. I'd guess that some of the international stuff, like korean/ (probably the smallest group population-wise), would be less "interesting". Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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