I'm sorry, I know I was one of the ones guilty of the site layout concerns on advocacy. You (or possibly others) raised concerns about this, and I have since moved all of my related subject(s) to freebsd-www.
Regards On 5/31/05, Julian H. Stacey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Background: > "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" wrote: > > *design* of the webpage, and I cant think of a better place to > > ask then advocacy, > > No need to Think ;-) _Read_ http://www.freebsd.org : > Register the URLs the web obsessed should already be complying with: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > send-pr & set Category: www > & Send diffs to commit to cvs/www to the above. > > Much noise on advocacy@ concerns presentation style of > http://www.freebsd.org, so has as much impact as farting in the > wind, as http://www.freebsd.org defines content as done by those > behind the 3 URLs above, Not done by those on advocacy@ > > I can't see those running http://www.freebsd.org should give a damn > what we on advocacy@ think, when so many here who _claim_ to be web > volunteers with plans to change stuff, are so ill disciplined, they > don't even comply with URLs provided to co-ordinate web maintenance. > > Useful Non Back Seat Driver Work Advocacy@ Could Do Instead: > > Form small teams to create (Not talk about) & maintain a single > page printable double sided (letter And A4) 2 fold 3 column > leaflet titled: "Why FreeBSD, Not Linux ?" similar to eg BSD > leaflet (eg http://berklix.org/bim/leaflet/). Take that Makefile > + Tex structure as a start if you want. Multi lingual too later ? > > Create (not talk about) And maintain a FreeBSD `slide show / > presentation (eg ports/misc/magicpoint format, usable on any cheap > laptop to hand, (not just high end open office / starwriter capable > laptops)' For use with office projectors (beamers). > > Both for use in short notice, no time to prepare, quick download, > print, & convince type scenarios, to management & chambers of > commerce & installathons etc. Whenever such opportunities arise, > there rarely seems time to prepare for it, so we should have something > permanently ready to download. > > If there are volunteers who want to work on those, I can provide > (on http://berklix.org servers) extra mail lists, + web(*) space & > logins, a CVS facility too later if needed. (*) I'm Not offering > to support web page rehashing of http://www.freebsd.org, just to > support leaflet & `slide show' production & maintenance). > > Encourage noisey back seat web drivers to divert to the 3 URLs above. > Lets be quieter & contribute something useful, not make irrelevant web > noise. > > - > Julian Stacey Net & Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com > Mail in Ascii (Html=Spam). Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED] > " > _______________________________________________ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
