Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 15:12:26 -0700 From: John Jawed <johnjawed@gmail.com> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advocacy projects need manpower. Message-ID: <a9eb358505053115124c518bc8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200505312140.j4VLewRi022517@fire.jhs.private> References: <listsub@401.cx> <429CACF5.9060802@401.cx> <200505312140.j4VLewRi022517@fire.jhs.private>
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I'm sorry, I know I was one of the ones guilty of the site layout concerns= =20 on advocacy. You (or possibly others) raised concerns about this, and I hav= e=20 since moved all of my related subject(s) to freebsd-www. Regards On 5/31/05, Julian H. Stacey <jhs@flat.berklix.net> wrote: >=20 > Background: > "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" wrote: > > *design* of the webpage, and I cant think of a better place to > > ask then advocacy, >=20 > No need to Think ;-) _Read_ http://www.freebsd.org : > Register the URLs the web obsessed should already be complying with: > www@freebsd.org > webmaster@freebsd.org > send-pr & set Category: www > & Send diffs to commit to cvs/www to the above. >=20 > Much noise on advocacy@ concerns presentation style of > http://www.freebsd.org, so has as much impact as farting in the > wind, as http://www.freebsd.org defines content as done by those > behind the 3 URLs above, Not done by those on advocacy@ >=20 > I can't see those running http://www.freebsd.org should give a damn > what we on advocacy@ think, when so many here who _claim_ to be web > volunteers with plans to change stuff, are so ill disciplined, they > don't even comply with URLs provided to co-ordinate web maintenance. >=20 > Useful Non Back Seat Driver Work Advocacy@ Could Do Instead: >=20 > Form small teams to create (Not talk about) & maintain a single > page printable double sided (letter And A4) 2 fold 3 column > leaflet titled: "Why FreeBSD, Not Linux ?" similar to eg BSD > leaflet (eg http://berklix.org/bim/leaflet/). Take that Makefile > + Tex structure as a start if you want. Multi lingual too later ? >=20 > Create (not talk about) And maintain a FreeBSD `slide show / > presentation (eg ports/misc/magicpoint format, usable on any cheap > laptop to hand, (not just high end open office / starwriter capable > laptops)' For use with office projectors (beamers). >=20 > Both for use in short notice, no time to prepare, quick download, > print, & convince type scenarios, to management & chambers of > commerce & installathons etc. Whenever such opportunities arise, > there rarely seems time to prepare for it, so we should have something > permanently ready to download. >=20 > If there are volunteers who want to work on those, I can provide > (on http://berklix.org servers) extra mail lists, + web(*) space & > logins, a CVS facility too later if needed. (*) I'm Not offering > to support web page rehashing of http://www.freebsd.org, just to > support leaflet & `slide show' production & maintenance). >=20 > Encourage noisey back seat web drivers to divert to the 3 URLs above. > Lets be quieter & contribute something useful, not make irrelevant web=20 > noise. >=20 > - > Julian Stacey Net & Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com > Mail in Ascii (Html=3DSpam). Ihr Rauch =3D mein allergischer Kopfschmerz. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.or= g > " >
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