From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jul 9 06:16:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA12207 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 06:16:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from newsguy.com (perry.co.pathlink.com [207.211.168.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA12202 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 06:16:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reyesf@newsguy.com) Received: (from reyesf@localhost) by newsguy.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA10868; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 06:16:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807091316.GAA10868@newsguy.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Chris Coleman" Cc: "Advocacy Mailing List (E-mail)" Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 09:15:49 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 95 (4.0.1111) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD E-Zine? Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 8 Jul 1998 23:29:40 -0700 (PDT), Chris Coleman wrote: >I was hoping to get an e-zine that printed every two months. Although nice to have something printed don't really see the advantages. Also if we keep it online only we could submit some of our articles to the FreeBSD Newsletter. >write a small column on what has been happening on that list over that two >month period. If I get enough of these volunteers We can keep an e-zine >very well published. That sounds like a good idea. We could have alternating columns so the E-zine is published let's say monthly and then certain columns are printed every 2/3 months. These columns would rotate. This way the people maintaining them would have enough time to prepare them. >> One of the problems with the FreeBSD pages is that they >>seem Stale after one visits them for a while. The newsflash is updated seldom. >> >That is one reason I would like to separate this from FreeBSD.org is >because the people who have 'Rights' there are already overloaded. Agree. I once submited some small diffs to the FreeBSD pages and they never made it. >> Anothe simple approach is why not just have something like the Quick >> Newsletter on the WEB. Nothing really fancy, just something which is >> updated regularly, > >This is my plan exactly. To start small and build from there. did you see the url for freebsd online? freebsd-online.ml.org That site or design could be a starting point. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message