From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 2 10:18: 0 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9812737B401 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 10:17:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from hermes.pressenter.com (hermes.pressenter.com [209.224.20.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A600543F79 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 10:17:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nospam@hiltonbsd.com) Received: from [209.224.32.122] (helo=daggar.sbgnet.net) by hermes.pressenter.com with smtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 18fOgl-0005Bh-00 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 02 Feb 2003 12:17:56 -0600 Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 12:17:53 -0600 From: Stephen Hilton To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hi!Dear FreeBSD! Message-Id: <20030202121753.687664fb.nospam@hiltonbsd.com> In-Reply-To: <17680.1044206843@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20030202103721.3996ec9c.nospam@hiltonbsd.com> <17680.1044206843@critter.freebsd.dk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.8 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 18:27:23 +0100 phk@FreeBSD.ORG wrote: > In message <20030202103721.3996ec9c.nospam@hiltonbsd.com>, Stephen Hilton write > s: > > >> maybe we should make some sort of geographical registration > >> web page so that people can find each other? > > Well, new committers are allowed to mark themselves in the xearth port: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/conventions.html > > Committers should know this already. > I suppose this is getting way OT for hackers, so this will be my last post to this thread. Thanks PHK for pointing to the xearth port, I will take a look at it. For myself the ability to find other users to collaborate or socialize in person would be the goal. I am reluctant to "bother" a committer with chat type things, but again an opt-in type database would then say to the FreeBSD community at large that he/she does not mind a friendly email, offering an invitation to further get to know each other, and possibly could spawn a new user group, or business opportunity, or even just a good pub crawl. Subscribing to chat or ICQ are both methods to this same goal, but having many tools and ways to get the same "job" done is one of the things that IMHO makes the *NIX community so interesting. Sincerely, Stephen Hilton nospam@hiltonbsd.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message