Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 21:02:14 -0400 From: kriston@ibm.net (Kriston J. Rehberg) To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux as a Mozilla total reference platform Message-ID: <6824-Mon11May1998210214-0400-kriston@ibm.net> In-Reply-To: <199805101059.DAA01506@rah.star-gate.com> References: <199805100839.CAA16237@lariat.lariat.org> <199805101059.DAA01506@rah.star-gate.com>
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Well, I'm a web developer, and I'm fairly impressed by the current freebsd.org. Of course, it could be made more impressive to Johnny Corporate. If it makes you feel better, freebsd.org is not as horribly presented as openbsd.org, which looks like a throw-away student web page compared to almost anything else. But back to freebsd.org. There isn't much advocacy there. The search engine is atrocious; the way it follows threads is by searching on Message-ID and it just doesn't seem to work. The selection of the search criteria, as well as whether to search mailing lists or manuals, is just too darn chatty and prone to user errors (like, "Wait, I didn't search the mailing list, what's going on?"). Just my opinion. You can tear apart my web site if you feel like you have to. Kris Amancio Hasty writes: >The challenge is to change the sleeper type attitude on this group with >respect to marketing and to get advocacy type messages out on the >world . > >For example, we *really* need to change http://www.freebsd.org >to convey a feeling of activity and success around FreeBSD. I posted >a simple request for someone to volunteer to revamp the web page and >got ZERO response. Why is that? Is it because the group is lazy when >it comes to promoting FreeBSD , the group does not understand the >importance of demonstrating the capability and success of FreeBSD, or >we don't have any web developers? I sincerely believe that the >answer to my question is (a) we are lazy when it comes to promoting >FreeBSD. > >Now, if this was a Linux forum , I bet we would have had by now several >dozen volunteers for the task . I believe thats the biggest difference >between FreeBSD and Linux . > > > Amancio > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > -- Kriston J. Rehberg AOL: Kriston http://kriston.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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