Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 20:31:06 -0500 (CDT) From: "Benjamin M. Manes" <maneben@charlie.cns.iit.edu> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some suggestions please. Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.95.991009200532.2698354B-100000@charlie.cns.iit.edu> In-Reply-To: <19991010010131.2473014E75@hub.freebsd.org>
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> I'm not sure the market exists for yet another advocacy site. You say > it will "provide support"; does this mean something like freebsd.peon.net? > > > FreeBSD *is* and *always* will be the main focus, but I thought > > supporting the other less-known would help all around. > > This is a good idea. (Although I wouldn't call them "less-known". If there > were any advocates of Net or OpenBSD around you might start a flame war :) ). Makeworld.xxx was dropped as an advocacy site name because it should not be a FreeBSD, or FreeBSD orionted advocacy site. If it was to become an advoacy site, it would be best to have people from all three groups maintain and contribute to the site. But, alas, we should probably rally behind a few advocacy news sites, such as DN, rather than having a bunch of little ones. Instead of making it a slashdot-like news site, why not make it an archive for a huge amount of resources. There's so much more than news out there, and contibuting articles among other things would be very beneficial. Modelling it after Linux.com and Linux.org (both of which are 'ok,' but lack a lot IMO) would be a good starter. Advoacy doesn't need to be in the form of news, or just articles, it can be of showing users a real resource. New users can learn about makeworld, old users might hear some about develoement improvements that aren't quite news worthy, some new tricks for apache, some high level book reviews - whatever. There's a lot out there you can do, and I'd recomend scouting out the netbsd/openbsd advocacy list for suggestions, and a few loyalists to contribute material where you leave off. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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