Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 00:41:14 -0400 From: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> To: dwilde1@ibm.net Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A lot of idea --- Coordination Message-ID: <3539806A.DE81F09B@aei.ca> References: <35397809.7D796AF1@aei.ca> <35397ED0.57BF7C0C@ibm.net>
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Don Wilde wrote: > Malartre wrote: > > > > I want to know how FreeBSD team is structured. > > > > I want to know if there is coordonator for each list who can take our > > Idea and make them work. > > > What happens is we chitchat until something gells enough that we have > something to ask a FreeBSD team member about. For example, this morning > after we discussed screen shots, I sent a mail to John Fieber. He's in > charge of web page design for the FreeBSD site. He's a student, so he > may not get back to us until Monday, since his e-mail is indiana.edu, or > even later, since the last two weeks were probably spring break. I > decided that I'd heard that idea enough times over the last two years > that it's worth pursuing. He's the one who can tell us how big they can > be, where to dump them, etc., since he's the one who will build the web > pages from them. > > Other than the FreeBSD web site or something that needs official > permission from Jordan, or a 'port' that needs to be committed by an > official 'committer', guess what? We're it! Pick something you want to > work on, and go to it. Nobody official asked Mark Mayo to build his > database of articles and academia, he just took it on himself. Ditto the > tireless Greg Lehey and Doug White, who take so much of their time to > make -questions work for all of us. Frank Pawlak Started to take on the > task of coordination for -advocacy, but I haven't heard from him in a > few days. You'll have to get used to the idea that in a democracy > (almost anarchy?) like this is, some ideas get done and some don't. > > Pick something, work on it, and ask for help when you get stuck. Never > be afraid to ask for help. Getting started is the first step to getting > something done, so have at it! There's no shortage of stuff to do! Yeah, but its a system where we have to find "who to contact" Why there is no official coordinator of the effort who supervise? to much anarchy ;-) its not linux, its freebsd --- and its supposed to be centralised am I wrong? cya Malartre -- --------------------------------------------------- malartre@aei.ca ICQ #4224434 www.aei.ca/~malartre/ FreeBSD 4 Newbies project Windows_95-B Unix FreeBSD-2.2.5-RELEASE --------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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