Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 03:14:33 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: I'm sad to say that the position of WEBMASTER is now open.. Message-ID: <18561.826283673@time.cdrom.com>
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John Fieber has indicated to me that his workload these days precludes the kind of active participation in refining and maintaining the web pages that's really required, and rather than stay on and do an insufficient job if it, he'd much prefer that the hat now be passed to someone else. John has done a terrific job of bringing our web pages up from essentially nothing to the finest documentation resource we have available today, and I hope that everyone will join me in wishing him the best of success in his new and highly demanding academic endeavors! Now before you all rush to send in your applications for the position of FreeBSD WEBMASTER (I hope! :-), let me first say a little bit about what's required, and add the caution that John's shoes won't exactly be trivial to fill! Requirements: o Monitor the www@freebsd.org alias and respond to queries. o Add new entries to the commercial and gallery sections as they're submitted. This requires both a certain sensitivity as to what constitutes a proper entry (and John has been a fiercely demanding editor, to our credit) and a timely response since people get miffed if they don't see their name in lights within a reasonable amount of time after submitting an entry. o Thoroughly know your way around HTML. o Be constantly on the look-out for new ways of organizing our HTML documentation and have some artistic sense of what separates a good, readable layout from a confusing neon jumble. A proactive attitude towards constantly refining and improving our web based documentation services is essential. o Be intimately familar with the process of running a WEB server (in our case, Apache), writing CGI scripts and interfacing to mutant indexing services like WAIS. In other words, if you are or have been a WEBMASTER for any other site of reasonable complexity then that would be a major plus! o Be aware of the fact that the whole world still isn't using Netscape. A willingness to use Lynx frequently as a formatting verifier is essential, keeping also in mind the fact that sysinstall's documentation menu also uses Lynx to view the home page, so even ardent netscape users may well first see our home page through lynx. o Lots of free time! :-) If you think you've got what it takes and are willing to sign up for what may truly be a fairly long-term committment, please send me email! I can't offer much in return except your name in lights and the privilege of putting "FreeBSD WEBMASTER" on your business cards, but you can definitely rest assured that you'll be making a major contribution to the success of FreeBSD! Thanks! Jordan
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