From owner-freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 20 10:10:15 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D72BF16A41F; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 10:10:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adewole@sympatico.ca) Received: from BAYC1-PASMTP04.bayc1.hotmail.com (bayc1-pasmtp04.bayc1.hotmail.com [65.54.191.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BC9243D45; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 10:10:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adewole@sympatico.ca) Message-ID: X-Originating-IP: [64.231.252.68] X-Originating-Email: [adewole@sympatico.ca] Received: from newton ([64.231.252.68]) by BAYC1-PASMTP04.bayc1.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Sat, 20 Aug 2005 03:10:15 -0700 Message-ID: <00d101c5a570$7b322050$6501a8c0@newton> From: "Mike Adewole" To: Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 06:18:13 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1506 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Aug 2005 10:10:15.0278 (UTC) FILETIME=[5BF6C8E0:01C5A56F] Cc: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Subject: Project BSDVISION Wants To Develop Native *BSD Console Desktop X-BeenThere: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated to libh code development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 10:10:16 -0000 For many people who spend a lot of time on the *BSD console and would love to have a desktop environment comparable to KDE/GNOME, I'm starting a project called BSDVISION to develop such an environment. Please don't ask if such an environment is really needed or not; the important thing is that some people like me need it badly enough to want to develop it. As a matter of fact, it has been in development for some time now and I think it's getting to the point where it makes sense to ask for community involvement. But I'm not looking for developers because development will continue to be done by myself with the assistance of paid contractors. What I'm looking for is people to maintain a community infrastructure (web site, mailing list, online forum, webcvs/svn, etc) which a community project like this needs in order to appeal to as many people as possible. So if you love the BSD console and would like to see it sport a complete desktop environment, the bsdvision project can really use your support. And since this project developed from an attempt to do a cleanroom implementation of libh, we'll be using the old libh mailing list until we have another one. Come help us make *BSD a truly complete platform with the best console desktop environment in the universe :-) Cheers