From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Sep 18 15:17: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from scrabble.freeuk.net (scrabble.freeuk.net [212.126.144.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9854237B423; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 15:17:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from du-012-0203.freeuk.com ([212.126.155.203] helo=cream.org) by scrabble.freeuk.net with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 13b9Di-0003G5-00; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 23:17:02 +0100 Content-Length: 1466 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000918212800.L567@parish> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 23:17:02 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Boothman To: Mark Ovens Subject: RE: An opportunity for FreeBSD Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 18-Sep-00 Mark Ovens wrote: > I fired off an e-mail to a couple of contacts Nik gave me, one of the > replies I got is included at the end of this mail. As you can see the > project is only just getting started and as yet no code has been > produced. Currently the webpage mentioned in the e-mail has been taken > down as they discovered that the name "Dewey" (from the Dewey-decimel > system used for cataloguing by libraries) was trade-marked. The > project is looking for a new name. Now called "ScrollKeeper", it would appear. http://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net From what you've said, and from what information is available on their web site, this certainly sounds like a project worth getting involved in. > I have subscribed to the mailing list (which is rather quiet at the > moment, but should liven up once code is available) and would like to > be able to announce that FreeBSD is "officially" supporting the > project (which means a committment to adopting Dewey for the > ports/packages when it reaches production quality). I am willing to > act as co-ordinator for this and will attempt to do most of the work. Great. I've also subscribed to their list, just so I can stay in the loop and offer up any help where I feel I can. With regard to "officially" deciding to support the project, I guess after sufficent discussion Nik and Satoshi could a rubber-stamp our final decision. --- Andrew Boothman http://sour.cream.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message