Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 11:57:23 -0700 From: Bill Swingle <unfurl@dub.net> To: Donald Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net> Cc: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com>, Jim Mock <jim@blues.ghis.net>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: advocacy site Message-ID: <19990804115723.B89379@dub.net> In-Reply-To: <37A84E13.60D780A9@thuntek.net>; from Donald Wilde on Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 08:28:35AM -0600 References: <19990804095920.A85270@blues.ghis.net> <19990803180527.L91284@forty-two.egroups.net> <37A84E13.60D780A9@thuntek.net>
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On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 08:28:35AM -0600, Donald Wilde wrote: > Gregory Sutter wrote: > > > > I don't even think there was a real call for volunteers to work on > > the site. I don't remember seeing one, anyway. (If I'm wrong, please > > refresh my memory.) > > > Greg, it's sad to hear that coming from you. The whole site was a call > for volunteeers. I had numerous postings on the advo list pointing to > the task list of things that needed to be done, and asking for people to > add input. DN even posted some of my comments and the links. Jim and Rob > were doing a great job until the wind was knocked out of the operation > by Bob B. deciding to change directions at Walnut Creek. Bill Swingle > was hired on the inside to replace me, but it seems that he's getting > even more bogged down in impossible expectations than I was. I don't > hear much from him. Eek. Don, I wasnt hired to replace you. I was hired to do a myiad of different tasks. My primary task is not advocacy. That said, it *is* one of the things that I get to through some attention at when I am not bogged down by little things like planning the upcoming FreeBSDCon or cranking out the new FreeBSD toolkit. Before actauly being hired by WC, I volunteered to be part of the web devel team on the advocay site. I had a briefe exchange with those in charge but there was never any concrete details of my involvment laid out. I most definatly want to see the advocacy site live. Albeit, in different circumstances. While the site was well thought out and designed to scale well, it did not fit into the cureent scheme that the rest of the freebsd.org web stuff does. This is a huge detriment as ppl that would normally be able to fix a typo on the main website were powerless (or at least hindered) in wanting to fix items on the advocacy site. If I can get enough ppl interested in activly maintaining the site, I propose that it be brought back up and integrated with the CVS tree so that it meshes better with the existing setup. I am willing to put together and admin a new box that could live here at WC if need be. -Bill -- -=| Bill Swingle - unfurl@dub.net - unfurl@freebsd.org - bill@cdrom.com -=| "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers" Pablo Picasso To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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