Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 20:41:43 +1000 From: Jim Mock <jim@blues.ghis.net> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, tommy@cfi.net Subject: Re: Advocacy web site dead? Message-ID: <19990801204143.A94687@blues.ghis.net> In-Reply-To: <19990801105024.A66146@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19990801105024.A66146@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Sun, 01 Aug 1999 at 10:50:24 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
> How do,
>
> Is the advocacy web site (advocacy.freebsd.org) dead?
No, not yet.
> Pages like the "In the Press" section don't seem to have been
> updated since May.
Long story, and I'll spare the gory details. Here's a basic summary
of what's gone down.. I'd been working on a new layout for the site,
which I had mostly finished. I also found someone willing to handle
the db backend and the perl and php to tie into. We started
progressing nicely.. (this was about a month and a half ago.. Jordan
took a look at it and liked it) and we were getting ready to put it up
live. In the mean time, both Tommy and myself seemed to get busy with
other things, and it sort of took a backburner.
Basically, here's where things stand now..
* The new layout is finished for the most part and is ready to go
live.
* The php/perl/MySQL stuff has been started on, but isn't done yet.
I have no ETA as to when it will be. Tommy's in the process of
switching jobs at the moment and hasn't had much time to do
anything as of late. If anyone can and is willing to lend a
hand, drop him a line (he's Cc'd on this message), or email
coders@advocacy.FreeBSD.org so he can bring you up to speed on
where he's at and go from there.
I don't particularly want to bring the HTML bits up until the whole
thing is ready go for various reasons, the main one being most of the
functionality of the site will be non-existent if the backend isn't
with it.
Anyway, I apologize for the lack of updates and for sort of ignoring
it for the past few weeks/months. If anyone wants to help Tommy out
with the backend part of the site, get in touch with him, and I guess
we'll go from there.
- Jim
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