Kudos to deb for her hard work! (and deb, you NEVER need to apologize, not when you have a list that long!!) --- deb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > It's probably become obvious that I don't keep up on > my Linuxchix mail as > often as I should, and for that I apologize. My > only excuse is that I'm > usually hip-deep in other things, including: > > 1. building a brand new Linuxchix site > 2. wrestling with PHP > 3. work (as usual) > 4. a couple of other projects (OSWG, dria.org, > another brand new secret > project that will be done in a couple of months, > etc.) > 5. spending a lot of time at the dentist (hoorah) > 6. actually trying to relax a bit (as some of you > know, I burned out a > while back and have just recently started to get > back into the swing of > things) > 7. playing far more Baldur's Gate II than is > probably healthy ;> > > Anyhow, all excuses aside, I have been working on > the new site, and it's > coming along quite nicely now. When it's unveiled > it will include the > following features: > > 1. user accounts > 2. personal weblogs (a la advogato.org) > 3. profile pages that you can create and update > without any intervention > on my part > 4. chapter pages that you can create and update > without any intervention > on my part > 5. a slashdot-esque news and announcement posting > system (no comment > system, however -- that's what the mailing lists are > for) > 6. a wikiwikiweb for random sharing of information > (ie: FAQs and such) > > and so forth... > > At this point, parts 1, 3, 4, and 5 are mostly done, > 2 has to be > implemented, and 6 is simply a matter of dropping in > phpwiki (with a bit > of customization thrown in so it matches the rest of > the site. > > There are plans for even more and better features in > the future (book > reviews, software reviews, etc), but those will come > in time. > > I'm hoping to have an alpha-testable version of the > site available > sometime in the near future, but I'm not exactly > sure when that will > be. Sooner rather than later, at this point, which > is a nice change > :) I've been promising a new site for a long time > now, I know, but I > wanted to pop in to assure you that I am actively > working on it. > > When the new site goes live we will also be moving > linuxchix.org to a new > server. This new server is a co-located machine > hosted at > rackspace.com. It's not free (by any means), and > I'm currently paying the > costs out of my own pocket. If you would like to > help defray those costs > at all, I've created a Linuxchix.org Collectible Mug > series over here: > > http://www.cafepress.com/linuxchix/ > > For each mug purchased I get a small profit (about > $2.50 after I sock away > the taxman's share), which I will use to help pay > for the server and > bandwidth fees. > > If you have any suggestions/ideas for the new site > (and/or for different > mug designs :), please send them to me at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm terrible > at responding to mail, but I do read everything that > is sent to me > directly (that isn't obviously spam :). > > In particular, I would like to know what you think > is good about Linuxchix > as it currently exists, and what you think is bad or > needs > improvement. The more feedback/ideas I get, the > better...many of you are > more active in this community than I have been > lately, and I'd really like > to know what you think of it all. > > Thanks a million for your patience and support. > I'll post more news when > it's available (especially when I need people to > alphatest the new site > :) Finally, a heartfelt apology to everyone who has > emailed me but has > never received a response. I really do feel > terrible about it, but if I > responded to all the mail I got in a day, I'd never > manage to get anything > else done. > > - deb > > > --- Deb Richardson (aka: dria) --- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.dria.org > ---------------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > announce mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ===== Janet "I'm paranoid that I'm paranoid..." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ issues mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/issues
