Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 15:20:44 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> Cc: Darren Pilgrim <dpilgrim@uswest.net>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, junkmale@xtra.co.nz, FreeBSD Documenters <doc@FreeBSD.ORG>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Another Installation Guide [was: FreeBSD Advocacy] Message-ID: <62308.923350844@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Apr 1999 23:05:36 BST." <19990405230536.A6083@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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> Having said all that, you might want to reconsider. Or at least consider > a little bit longer. Here are some of the attractions that making this > part of the Handbook can bring you; > > <fx: puts on glitzy showman's suit> Let me just add one more, if I might, and hope that it doesn't make things even more difficult rather than less so: Walnut Creek CDROM would also like to hire someone, either remotely or on-site, to start seriously working to improve the handbook. We'd like to publish it, you see, but what's there just isn't publishable yet and it NEEDS to be published if we're to create a "feedback loop" where some number of people are actually getting revenue from it and thus compelled to actively improve the thing. The Handbook hasn't really had much in the way of active content addition to it for some time and I think this is the only way forward for it. Apathy sure doesn't seem to be working. So, by stepping up to the plate with the handbook and doing a credible job in improving it for long enough to convince the skeptics (me) of your sincerity and skill, you also run the additional risk of being offered the task as a paying job, and how's that for incentive. :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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