From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Apr 18 21:41:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA09673 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 21:41:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (root@gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA09666 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 04:41:34 GMT (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (kaput@aeiusrD-04.aei.ca [206.186.204.154]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA10138; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 00:41:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3539806A.DE81F09B@aei.ca> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 00:41:14 -0400 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dwilde1@ibm.net CC: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A lot of idea --- Coordination References: <35397809.7D796AF1@aei.ca> <35397ED0.57BF7C0C@ibm.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Don Wilde wrote: > Malartre wrote: > > > > I want to know how FreeBSD team is structured. > > > > I want to know if there is coordonator for each list who can take our > > Idea and make them work. > > > What happens is we chitchat until something gells enough that we have > something to ask a FreeBSD team member about. For example, this morning > after we discussed screen shots, I sent a mail to John Fieber. He's in > charge of web page design for the FreeBSD site. He's a student, so he > may not get back to us until Monday, since his e-mail is indiana.edu, or > even later, since the last two weeks were probably spring break. I > decided that I'd heard that idea enough times over the last two years > that it's worth pursuing. He's the one who can tell us how big they can > be, where to dump them, etc., since he's the one who will build the web > pages from them. > > Other than the FreeBSD web site or something that needs official > permission from Jordan, or a 'port' that needs to be committed by an > official 'committer', guess what? We're it! Pick something you want to > work on, and go to it. Nobody official asked Mark Mayo to build his > database of articles and academia, he just took it on himself. Ditto the > tireless Greg Lehey and Doug White, who take so much of their time to > make -questions work for all of us. Frank Pawlak Started to take on the > task of coordination for -advocacy, but I haven't heard from him in a > few days. You'll have to get used to the idea that in a democracy > (almost anarchy?) like this is, some ideas get done and some don't. > > Pick something, work on it, and ask for help when you get stuck. Never > be afraid to ask for help. Getting started is the first step to getting > something done, so have at it! There's no shortage of stuff to do! Yeah, but its a system where we have to find "who to contact" Why there is no official coordinator of the effort who supervise? to much anarchy ;-) its not linux, its freebsd --- and its supposed to be centralised am I wrong? cya Malartre -- --------------------------------------------------- malartre@aei.ca ICQ #4224434 www.aei.ca/~malartre/ FreeBSD 4 Newbies project Windows_95-B Unix FreeBSD-2.2.5-RELEASE --------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message