Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 10:40:20 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Following positions seeking volunteers! Message-ID: <18334.849897620@time.cdrom.com>
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As some of you may already know, our long suffering and now far-too-overloaded Webmaster / Docmaster, John Fieber, has asked that one or more people be found to fill his shoes in the Webmaster & Docmaster roles so that he may focus on his doctoral studies. In order to make recruitment a little easier, he has also provided the following list of "positions", each of which could probably use a dedicated person though I also don't see anything wrong with a truly motivated individual taking on several hats at once. It also goes without saying that any volunteer for these positions should be truly willing to stick it out for the long haul (>= 1 year) since it takes a fair while just to ramp up on this stuff, much less become really good at it. If you're only interested in doing this for for a week or a month then you should probably consider instead simply volunteering to stand on the sidelines and help out the central volunteer, whomever that might be, in a more peripheral role. This is also a perfectly valuable contribution, and one which is especially encouraged as some of these jobs are rather difficult for one person to do alone. We more than welcome "soldiers" as well as "generals," though it must be said that generals are sort of what we're really stuck for most at the moment. All we can offer you in return is a good opportunity for learning and a chance to do something truly important for FreeBSD. Documentation and Webmastering can be a somewhat thankless job, and the better job you do it seems the more people will take you for granted, but it's nontheless absolutely *vital* that FreeBSD continue to grow and improve in these areas, and your contributions are the only way that will happen. Anyone? Thanks! Jordan Positions: Webmaster: Overall responsibility for making sure that the things listed below get done. Build Engineer Arrange for building the "live" web pages from the CVS repository on a daily basis. A good working knowledge of SGML is essential. The current setup uses Makefiles and some moderately advanced SGML features to generate the pages that get posted on server. Mirror Manager Direct mirroring activities. Set up and maintain mirroring mechanism(s), keep in regular contact with mirror administrators to negotiate changes, such as running various CGI scripts on mirrors rather than on the master site. Set up criteria for being listed as an "Official" mirror on the home page. News Bureau Track new release, important changes and other news (eg: monitor the freebsd-announce lists). Maintain the "Release info" and "Newsflash" pages. A weekly or bi-weekly "Whats new with FreeBSD" summarizing interesting developments in or related to FreeBSD would be a great addition, but a fair amount of work. Gallery/Commercial Editor Receive and verify submissions for the FreeBSD Gallery and the Commercial Vendors pages. Weed dead links and periodically verify the use of FreeBSD by those listed. Style Police/Art Director Ensure consistent and effective use of layout, graphics and logical structure of the site as a whole. Assist other WWW developers in implementing the "www.freebsd.org look and feel". A background in HCI, with a focus on electronic text and graphic design, is *extremely* desirable. Handbook/FAQ/Tutorial Editor Solicit new materials, arrange for updating of obsolete sections, mundane style editing. Good technical writing skills essential (since hackers are notoriously terrible writers). A familiarity with the "novice user" is also helpful. Scanning the freebsd-questions list is a must to keep in touch with what should be in the FAQ. A broad familiarity with FreeBSD/Unix/X11 is more important than a deep familiarity. Note: The head FAQ maintainer's position has now been assumed by Peter da Silva <pds@FreeBSD.ORG>, though the Handbook / Tutorials still need attention and I'm sure that Peter would certainly welcome any and all help with the FAQ as well. Database Engineer Manage (and hopefully improve) the mailing list archives and web page searching. CGI Engineer Watch over CGI functionality, such as cvsweb and gnats. There is great potential in developing a cgi interface to the ports too. Other A variety of other pages (eg Support) don't neatly fit in the above categories. Someone needs to watch over these.
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