From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 24 08:03:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA11893 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 08:03:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA11881 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 08:03:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpt@us.networkcs.com) Received: from marcos.networkcs.com (marcos.networkcs.com [137.66.16.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA01149 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 08:03:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from us.networkcs.com (us.networkcs.com [137.66.11.15]) by marcos.networkcs.com (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5) with ESMTP id KAA09781; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 10:02:49 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from jpt@localhost) by us.networkcs.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA24546; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 10:02:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Joseph Thomas Message-Id: <199809241502.KAA24546@us.networkcs.com> Subject: Re: Idea for a small project... In-Reply-To: <199809240225.WAA15671@lakes.dignus.com> from Thomas David Rivers at "Sep 23, 98 10:25:25 pm" To: rivers@dignus.com (Thomas David Rivers) Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 10:02:48 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, mike@smith.net.au, rivers@dignus.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Mike Smith writes in personal email... > > > > > > > I realize this is making work, but, if someone is looking for a way > > > to contribute, or a graduate student/senior computer science major > > > is looking for a good term project... this might be one. > > > > The hardest thing is actually recording these sort of things and > > putting a list somewhere for us to point people at. Would you mind > > perhaps submitting this to the handbook, or perhaps starting a page of > > "interesting projects"? > > > > Thanks! > > > > [Mike, I hope you don't mind me posting this on to hackers, perhaps > someone with excellent network connectivity would volunteer to host?] > > Good idea! I see, from time to time, people asking "what can I do". > A page of interesting small things to start on would be an excellent > place to point people. [Of course, that's one of the first things > to go on the "interesting projects list." :-) ] > > Also, I should add that this is something to consider well *after* > the up-coming releases... Everyone is busy enough already :-) > > Seems like a page would be preferable to the handbook - but - I'm > not sure... opinions? > > - Dave Rivers - > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > Not that I'm good with forms (that's what our graohics group is for) but it seems to me that it might also be nice to have a way that people could register as "I'm working on this" as well as others to know who those people are... This makes me lean towards have a page rather than sticking it in the handbook. -- Joseph Thomas E/Mail: jpt@networkcs.com Network Computing Services, Inc. jpt@magic.net 1200 Washington Ave So. Tel: +1 612 337 3558 Minneapolis, MN 55415-1227 FAX: +1 612 337 3400 An elephant is a mouse with an operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message