From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Aug 6 22:38:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0881F14D0B for ; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 22:38:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA02684; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 22:36:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Bill Fumerola Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Alex Zepeda , Mike Hoskins , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: advocacy site In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 07 Aug 1999 00:21:10 EDT." Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 22:36:42 -0700 Message-ID: <2680.934004202@localhost> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The trouble with all of this is problems with the site will be reported > through the traditional methods, and we're going to have to deal with > that I suppose. So put up an email link for complaints - that's a problem? :) > I'll help out with any implementation though, however let's get it > completly working before announcing it again. Well, let's start talking CGI then. Who wants to take the next step? There's a lot of glue between here and slashdot. :) > > I also don't see people complaining that they're not able to mirror > > slashdot, so I think the fears about not having a CVS repository to > > put up for remote access are a little unfounded. If it all goes into > > a mysql database with a bunch of CGI glue then so be it - as long as > > it's visible on a site with reasonable network connectivity, we're > > ahead of the game already. > > Except less people will know how to help. I think the opposite is true, actually. If people are able to sign up and submit new content through a couple of very simple, straight-forward web forms, I think the number of people willing and able to help will increase logarithmically. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message