From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Jul 8 23:37:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA06562 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 23:37:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bb.cc.wa.us (chris@bb.cc.wa.us [134.39.181.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA06557 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 23:37:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@bb.cc.wa.us) Received: from localhost (chris@localhost) by bb.cc.wa.us (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA01653; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 06:29:40 GMT Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 23:29:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Coleman To: Francisco Reyes cc: "Advocacy Mailing List (E-mail)" Subject: Re: FreeBSD E-Zine? In-Reply-To: <199807090441.VAA15980@newsguy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Also recently you wrote.... > > ****FreeBSD Really quick newsletter > >This is a monthly Newsletter, published only by E-mail. > >If you have anything you would like to see in the next edition, > >please send e-mail to fbsd-book@vmunix.com > >Chris Coleman > > I liked the Quick newsletter because it serves a void from the > FreeBSD pages. To give somewhat recent news of what is going on with > FreeBSD. This does fill a void, and I plan on keeping this up. An E-zine wouldn't replace this. > > The Ezine is a great idea, but I think it would be best to go through > the FreeBSD documentation project and see how to best integrate what > would go into an Ezine with the existing FreeBSD pages. > I disagree with that. An E-zine would be very different from the Documentation project. I am looking for a small team of volunteers, big enough group that we can handle when people are busy and still get the e-zine out. I was hoping to get an e-zine that printed every two months. Its contents could be dynamic, so we had no constraints on how large or small it was. We could just print it when we thought we had enough stuff. I am finding that I almost have enough stuff to print a RQN every two weeks. I just plan for once a month incase I get busy. It will be easy to incorportate alot of people into this project. I was forseeing jobs like "list watching" people who just watch one list and write a small column on what has been happening on that list over that two month period. If I get enough of these volunteers We can keep an e-zine very well published. > One of the problems with the FreeBSD pages is that they seem Stale > after one visits them for a while. The newsflash is updated seldom. > That is one reason I would like to separate this from FreeBSD.org is because the people who have 'Rights' there are already overloaded. > > >Well, Lets get organized! > >We need: > > An Editor. :-) > > Chris, you seem like a good candidate. Why don't you take the job. > > I will volunteer to be the project coordinator and write a column, but my editing skills are not up to par. > > Web Site: > > Best to use Freebsd.org since it is mirrored. We could always get our site mirrored by FreeBSD.org. > > Anothe simple approach is why not just have something like the Quick > Newsletter on the WEB. Nothing really fancy, just something which is > updated regularly, This is my plan exactly. To start small and build from there. I just need a core team and web site. I have a couple volunteers and a site so far. I think we will build momentum with each issue. -Chris Coleman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message