From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Aug 6 23:53:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from host.phc.igs.net (host.phc.igs.net [207.210.17.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 366F21513C for ; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 23:53:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eagle@host.phc.igs.net) Received: from localhost (eagle@localhost) by host.phc.igs.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA28546; Sat, 7 Aug 1999 02:23:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 02:23:50 -0400 (EDT) From: eagle To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Bill Fumerola , Alex Zepeda , Mike Hoskins , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: advocacy site In-Reply-To: <2472.934002812@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > We're paying attention. :) > > For what it's worth, I think it's still worth doing it as a separate > site and worth doing it in such a way that "accounts" can be given to > roving reporters and such without having to give them actual Unix > shell accounts and/or CVS commit access. Having to put someone who > only intends on being an occasional (but nonetheless valuable) > journalist though the commiters voting process is just too damn much > overhead for supporting a "slashdot" style site (which I believe is > needed - if it doesn't change at least once every other day, people > stop coming back). > > 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. > > - Jordan > > > On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote: > > > > > This way one could go "Oh look at Windows, and all the Microsoft created > > > advocacy" and "Look at FreeBSD, the (non coding) users love it enough to > > > spread the word". And it pisses off core just a little less ;O > > > > -core would have to pay attention in order to get pissed off. > > > > -- > > - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - > > - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > o.k. My ISP keeps screwing with my static IP so, thats why I havent been able to get mail through to the list. What is needed to make this happen is a way of generating static html. dynamically. then the *static* html can be mirrored however. since the static pages would be generated *very* frequently the mirrors would have to update frequently. Rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message