From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 31 03:09:16 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F5491065671 for ; Sat, 31 May 2008 03:09:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E04728FC14 for ; Sat, 31 May 2008 03:09:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m4V39Cll086675; Fri, 30 May 2008 20:09:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Fri, 30 May 2008 20:09:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 20:09:08 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Steve Lake Message-ID: <20080531030907.GC20420@thought.org> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20080530185311.00c42f60@192.168.0.30> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20080530185311.00c42f60@192.168.0.30> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 21++ years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for gurus willing to help write Freebsd tutorials X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 03:09:16 -0000 On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 07:08:20PM -0400, Steve Lake wrote: > Hi everyone. I was wondering if anybody here might be interested > in writing and donating a few Freebsd tutorials or articles to Raiden's > Realm to help us boost the number of Freebsd related articles on the > site. A lot of what we have is Linux oriented right now because most of > the people there are Linux oriented. I'm one of the few who's Freebsd > oriented. And since my goal is to help people learn both Linux and > Freebsd, I'm looking for people willing to help out by writing long or > short tutorials on doing a variety of simple and complex tasks in Freebsd. > > The site is completely non-profit and is very new user > oriented. I've even written a number of tutorials over the past couple of > years focusing on several things involving Freebsd, from setting up a > firewall, a workstation, and a file and mail server, to exploring the heart > of Freebsd in order to help draw new users into our world. But my > knowledge only goes so far, and I've seen that you guys really have a lot > of great knowledge and information to share and if possible, I'd love to > see a few of you share that knowledge through articles and tutorials on my > site. > > My simple goal is to help people, and to promote Freebsd (well, > and Linux too. hehe) as much as I can to new users. If anyone's willing > to help, please let me know, or just shoot me something whenever you get > the time. I'm not trying to beg or anything, but rather I'm trying to > encourage others here to help new users through the web. Not everyone will > know about this mailing list, or want to sign up to it. There's a lot of > lurkers out there these days, and if you have a good tutorial or article > posted on a website, it'll improve the chances of them hearing and learning > about Freebsd. > > Thanks for taking the time to read this. And if you can help out, > I'd appreciate it. Also, I'm not advertising the site. Just asking for > some help. Since open source is about sharing, it only stands to reason > that some sharing can and should be done as well on the web. :) > Hi Steve, Several years back I was lead-writer on the "AnswerMan" help column. It was directed mostly at new users of the BSD's and aimed primarily at FreeBSD. We published several tutorial-like Q's and A's bi-monthly. Were heading into our 7th year before the column fell apart. Long-story-short, all the contributors gave permission to re-use the contents, so feel free to google up the stuff and use what you deem usable. cheers, gary kline > > Steven Lake > Owner/Technical Writer > Raiden's Realm > www.raiden.net > Bringing Linux and BSD to the World > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org