From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 22 11:18:12 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA26861 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:18:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA26856 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:18:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tera.com) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [207.224.230.169]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA16623; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:17:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA29981; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 09:00:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 08:58:59 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Dan Langille Cc: gummibear@we.mediaone.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: State of the union, 1999. - Concerning User Groups Message-ID: <19990111085859.A29841@athena.tera.com> References: <49859.915950870.1@zippy.cdrom.com> <3.0.1.32.19990110223521.006a52bc@we.mediaone.net> <19990111082609.XLAP678125.mta2-rme@wocker> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95us In-Reply-To: <19990111082609.XLAP678125.mta2-rme@wocker>; from Dan Langille on Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 09:25:24PM +1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 09:25:24PM +1300, Dan Langille wrote: > On 10 Jan 99, at 22:35, gummibear@we.mediaone.net wrote: > > > I totally agree here. Users really need to get involved. I have noticed > > that there is a FreeBSD Webring. I think that is one of the greatest > > things that has been thought of for FreeBSD Advocacy. If you're HTML > > savy and have something to say about FreeBSD, then by all means put your > > HTML skills to work and let people know what you think about FreeBSD. > > I jumped at the chance to get involved with this webring. But I don't > think I'm getting much traffic from it. A great deal of my traffic comes > from www.freebsd.org. Perhaps we need to promote the ring more as well. > > > You > > create an online FreeBSD diary dedicated on what you did when you > > installed, what problems you had and how you fixed them, what software > > packages you liked the best, how did you set up your kernel, etc. > > WOW! That's a really fantastic idea! Why didn't I think of that? > > > Why not write an article, however brief, for either DN or the FreeBSD 'zine for a start? Or both! As for sharing knowledge of HowTo Do Whatever in *BSD-land, one goal I have in mind, and I believe that my co-authors will agree to this, is to eventually have HTML links to our Answerman column where the material is presented in tutorial form. gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message