From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 9 15: 2:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bytor.rush.net (bytor.rush.net [209.45.245.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B82AF14D05; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 15:02:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lynch@bsd.unix.sh) Received: from localhost (lynch@localhost) by bytor.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA21073; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 18:02:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 18:02:19 -0500 (EST) From: Pat Lynch X-Sender: lynch@bytor.rush.net To: Olaf Hoyer Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: German FreeBSD and advocacy In-Reply-To: <4.1.20000109040233.00c481a0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Olaf Hoyer wrote: > > (Please forgive me for using Microshit products, but my whole emailing > resides also for some compatibility/archiving (about 8000 mails) reasons > for years on it. If someone could recommend a product like Eudora Pro for > FreeBSD, I'd be happy ;-) ) > actually the mailbox formats are the same format that elm/pine/mutt read afaik. so there ya go ;) > Ok: My idea was to do some work in the advocacy field regarding germany, > and contributing to the documentation (translating/working on handbook and > howtos, perhaps a pile/booklet of manpages came to my mind), as my spare > time will allow. > If you;ve got the spare time, I'm sure that would help ALOT. Advocacy is just as important as coding IMHO. > > > Thought was to do something with a german booklet, a nice and snappy > packaging, so that it can compete against a big Linux package sitting next > to it on the shelf. > Of course, here has to be done some work/research with walnut creek, as > they are doing some business also with that, inhowfar one could come > together on that issue. > Thats probably a good idea, but I'll let the guys that do that for a living answer to that one ;) -Pat> __ Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net lynch@bsdunix.net lynch@unix.sh lynch@blowfi.sh Systems Administrator Rush Networking To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message