From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 22 12:48:43 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA09382 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 12:48:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA09366 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 12:48:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.210.87]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990122204807.EPJP682101.mta1-rme@wocker>; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 09:48:07 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Gary Kline Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 09:48:25 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: State of the union, 1999. - Concerning User Groups Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: gummibear@we.mediaone.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19990111085859.A29841@athena.tera.com> References: <19990111082609.XLAP678125.mta2-rme@wocker>; from Dan Langille on Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 09:25:24PM +1300 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990122204807.EPJP682101.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11 Jan 99, at 8:58, Gary Kline wrote: > 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! Ummm, I'm lost. Write an article about what? I'm already a contributor for FreeBSD'zine. As for DN, I'm willing to have a go at that as well. > 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. That does sound good! -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message