From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Apr 16 19:05:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA16793 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 19:05:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smgmail.smgmail.com ([204.170.177.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA16757 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 02:04:55 GMT (envelope-from AdamT@smginc.com) Received: from smginc.com (204.170.177.4 [204.170.177.4]) by smgmail.smgmail.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.1960.3) id 28QHTJJM; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 22:00:18 -0400 Received: by smginc.com with Microsoft Mail id <3536D9D7@smginc.com>; Thu, 16 Apr 98 21:25:59 PDT From: Adam Turoff To: "stefanos@ringworld.uniscape.com" , "freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: Promoting FreeBSD. Date: Thu, 16 Apr 98 22:03:00 PDT Message-ID: <3536D9D7@smginc.com> X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Here are some of my ideas about promoting FreeBSD. > > 1) Create an online magazine dedicated to FreeBSD. This magazine will > a) Feature articles on how FreeBSD is being used in commercial > organizations. > b) Provide a how to section to help beginners and more advanced > users get the most out of FreeBSD. > c) Cover topics of interest to the FreeBSD community. > > Although I can't take on such a project by myself, my company can > provide the hosting and Web site maintenance for such a magazine. I can also > write a few articles as well, but my time is limited. > > [yet another GUI admin thread] Can we please stop the GUI Admin threads? They come up every few weeks like clockwork. What the FreeBSD community really needs, IMNSHO, is www.freebsdweek.com or even www.bsdweek.com. I'm fighting the same battle many of us are fighting to use open source software such as apache, samba, freebsd and perl. Having a publication as fine as www.apacheweek.com has been of immense value to evangelists and reporters. OTOH, apache still needs a GUI admin tool but it's the running on over half of all internet websites. You be the judge of which is more useful in advocating FreeBSD. As for the X-admin discussion, maybe it's time to unite all of the people doing their one- and two- developer projects, share some code and ideas. Perhaps another website? A weekly e-zine? There's a lot of discussion going on with GUI-admin tools for apache, linux and FreeBSD, and probably OpenBSD and NetBSD as well. There's no reason re-implementing the same security holes and bugs over and over again, folks. -- Adam. (Sorry, I had a bad day fixing other people's code...) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message