From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Aug 1 3:42:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from blues.ghis.net (pppc2-94.eisa.net.au [203.166.251.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E63514E5E; Sun, 1 Aug 1999 03:42:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@blues.ghis.net) Received: (from jim@localhost) by blues.ghis.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA94762; Sun, 1 Aug 1999 20:41:43 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jim) Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 20:41:43 +1000 From: Jim Mock To: Nik Clayton Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, tommy@cfi.net Subject: Re: Advocacy web site dead? Message-ID: <19990801204143.A94687@blues.ghis.net> Reply-To: jim@blues.ghis.net References: <19990801105024.A66146@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.3i In-Reply-To: <19990801105024.A66146@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 01 Aug 1999 at 10:50:24 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > How do, > > Is the advocacy web site (advocacy.freebsd.org) dead? No, not yet. > Pages like the "In the Press" section don't seem to have been > updated since May. Long story, and I'll spare the gory details. Here's a basic summary of what's gone down.. I'd been working on a new layout for the site, which I had mostly finished. I also found someone willing to handle the db backend and the perl and php to tie into. We started progressing nicely.. (this was about a month and a half ago.. Jordan took a look at it and liked it) and we were getting ready to put it up live. In the mean time, both Tommy and myself seemed to get busy with other things, and it sort of took a backburner. Basically, here's where things stand now.. * The new layout is finished for the most part and is ready to go live. * The php/perl/MySQL stuff has been started on, but isn't done yet. I have no ETA as to when it will be. Tommy's in the process of switching jobs at the moment and hasn't had much time to do anything as of late. If anyone can and is willing to lend a hand, drop him a line (he's Cc'd on this message), or email coders@advocacy.FreeBSD.org so he can bring you up to speed on where he's at and go from there. I don't particularly want to bring the HTML bits up until the whole thing is ready go for various reasons, the main one being most of the functionality of the site will be non-existent if the backend isn't with it. Anyway, I apologize for the lack of updates and for sort of ignoring it for the past few weeks/months. If anyone wants to help Tommy out with the backend part of the site, get in touch with him, and I guess we'll go from there. - Jim -- - Jim Mock - jim@blues.ghis.net - systems administrator - ghis.NET - - work: http://www.ghis.net/ - personal: http://www.ghis.net/~jim/ - - FreeBSD 'zine: http://www.freebsdzine.org/ - jim@freebsdzine.org - - FreeBSD: http://advocacy.freebsd.org/ - jim@advocacy.FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message