From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 10 09:02:09 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA11417 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 09:02:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from darius.pce.net (darius.pce.net [206.25.234.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA11412 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 09:02:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dnh@darius.pce.net) Received: from localhost (dnh@localhost) by darius.pce.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id MAA28678 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 12:15:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 12:15:10 -0500 (EST) From: David Hummel To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: contributing to the free(dom) community Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I have been a part of the Internet community for about four years, and I feel that it's about time for me to start contributing to 'the cause'. 'The cause', as I see it, has mainly to do with Free Software, and promoting the Internet as a forum of education and free exchange of ideas (as opposed to entertainment and commercial enterprise: while necessary (or at least unavoidable), these have enough momentum to carry themselves without my help). What I hope to achieve by writing this list is: a) A few ideas on what are the most positive projects promoting these ideals (and is there a listing of these?). Included would be things like XFree86, Apache, FSF, PHP, Linux, *BSD, project Gutenburg, sites promoting anti-spam, internet freedom, human rights etc. If there is a central site that has a listing of sites like these, especially one that provides a guide to contributing to such causes, please give me a url. (If no such site exists, perhaps I could contribute this). b) Thoughts on a FreeDNS/DNS exhange. I longed for such a thing until I found Granite Canyon on the FreeBSD gallery page. They currently provide name service for more than 7000 sites, but they have their share of downages (they only have one secondary name server). Similarly, ml.org has cut their services due to resource problems and abuse. I've always thought that DNS wasn't as open as it could be. It seems to me that there could exist a variety of setups to help small sites with DNS including: 1) A simple DNS exchange where admins can find other admins who are willing to provide secondary name service with each other. 2) A large scale project similar to Granite Canyon. The difference would be that rather than just one secondary server, there would be many. It would be possible to spread the load over many servers and networks. Contributors would set up secondary DNS I guess with this my questions would be: a) Does such a project exist? b) Is such a project desirable? (does it invite too much abuse?) c) Any other thoughts on contributing. Like everyone else, my shortest resource is time. Most abundant is probably equipment, followed by sysadmin skills, and then programming skills. Thanks, Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message