From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 24 19:50:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA12159 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 19:50:15 -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 TAA12134 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 19:50:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from J_Shevland@TurnAround.com.au) Received: from WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (webbsd1.turnaround.com.au [203.39.138.49]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA04110 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 19:49:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from TurnAround.com.au (ras6.turnaround.com.au [192.168.1.116] (may be forged)) by WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA17575; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 12:50:07 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from J_Shevland@TurnAround.com.au) Message-ID: <360B0352.E5961E4@TurnAround.com.au> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 12:43:31 +1000 From: Joe Shevland Organization: Turnaround Solutions Pty. Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joseph Thomas CC: Thomas David Rivers , freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, mike@smith.net.au Subject: Re: Idea for a small project... References: <199809241502.KAA24546@us.networkcs.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Good idea I think. No reinvention of the wheel would occur this way. First thing on the list should be to work on the page. That's as close as I'll come to volunteering but, pending some kind of response, I'd be happy to put together a servlet/cgi web based form or something similar. Joe Shevland TurnAround Solutions Joseph Thomas wrote: > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message