From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jun 26 3:41:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C46237B7C5 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 03:41:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA10381 for doc@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 10:58:29 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 19:49:04 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: docs@freebsd.org Cc: dgl@bsdi.com, jim@cdrom.com, papowell@astart.com, wpaul@freebsd.org, ceren@magnesium.net, ryan@ryan.net, murray@bsdi.com Subject: The docs go to Usenix Message-ID: <20000625194904.A470@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi guys, *** IMPORTANT *** IMPORTANT *** IMPORTANT *** IMPORTANT *** IMPORTANT *** The main reason I'm doing this is so that it can act as a springboard for anyone else who's interested to get down and contribute. I'm already swamped with work, and I get the impression sometimes that people are nervous of contributing for fear of stepping on my toes, as if the doc project was my own private domain. That's emphatically not the case. If you want to work on any of the projects I'm going to describe in the next few messages, please step forward and say so. About the only thing I would ask is that you commit to producing stuff for review every so often so that I (and anyone else) can comment before you (potentially) invest a lot of time in something that might be implemented another way -- peer review, and all that. *** IMPORTANT *** IMPORTANT *** IMPORTANT *** IMPORTANT *** IMPORTANT *** "Join up" they said. "Come to Usenix" they said, "it'll be fun, glamourous, and exciting!" I'm trying hard to remember this as I sit in LA airport waiting for my flight back (current delay, three hours and counting). Anyway, this gives me as good an opportunity as any to write up a report on what happened at Usenix that was -doc related. During the discussions a number of different project ideas came up. I'm going to split these up in to several different messages, so that each project can get a message thread of its own. Anyway, some meta-discussion. At Usenix I got the opportunity to meet up with Debbie Lidl (now responsible for BSDi's documentation), Jim Mock ("Mr. Handbook" for the past six months or more), Patrick Powell (author of LPRng, and interested in contributing), Bill Paul (fingers all over the networking code, and interested in working on the website), Ceren Ercen ("FreeBSD's Strange Attractor", interested in contributing), and Ryan (damn, don't know your last name, it's depressing when you only know people by their e-mail address, also interested in contributing). I also managed to miss (due to more flight delays) Murray Stokely, also from BSDi, who's been looking at some doc stuff. I've cc'd all of them on these messages. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message