Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:05:27 +0200 From: Willie Viljoen <will@unfoldings.net> To: "Anthony C. Chavez" <acc@anthonychavez.org> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some corrections about freebsdnews.org Message-ID: <200301272105.27758.will@unfoldings.net> In-Reply-To: <20030127185744.GD62737@anthonychavez.org> References: <200301272043.20423.will@unfoldings.net> <20030127185744.GD62737@anthonychavez.org>
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On Monday 27 January 2003 20:57, Anthony C. Chavez wrote: > This has turned into a somewhat unfortunate mess. I wish I would have > had time to respond to this over the weekend. Well, nobody could really e-mail very well this weekend, we're still deal= ing=20 with the aftermath of that slapper-worm rubbish here, mail queues filled = to=20 capacity :) > > Your description of freebsdnews sounds ~exactly~ like Daemon News, > except that it sounds like you're going to focus on FreeBSD rather than > the BSDs as a whole. Well, there's no reason why we can't colaborate, ie, some portions of=20 freebsdnews.org just redirects people to the appropriate part of DN, and = the=20 rest does things like the freebsd-specific factoid things, etc. I've bought it anyway, and the 12 Euros really isn't gonna hurt that badl= y, so=20 we can think of something to do with it :-) > > Daemon News (well, actually, it's just me and maybe a couple of others) > has been interested in re-vamping the advocacy portal for a few months > now. http://advocacy.daemonnews.org/ has been around for quite some > time now, but it's suffered from severe neglect, like most others. > > Josef El-Rayes and Peter Kieser have both expressed a fairly high degre= e > of enthusiasm for hosting the advocacy site on advocacy.daemonnews.org. > I have yet to hear back from you or Stacy Olivas yet. > > I don't mean to deter you from starting freebsdnews, but IMO, DN is a > much more appropriate place to host an advocacy site. > > By all means, if you want to continue with your site, please do! > However, we can save you the cost of a domain for one thing, and for > another, DN's ~purpose~ is to represent the BSDs as a whole, rather tha= n > just one flavor. > > Please let me know what you decide to do. Thanks! --=20 Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) will@unfoldings.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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