Re: Weekly Reports

[Aaron Turner <aturner@linuxkb.org>]

You know I was thinking, why not use one of the existing GPL'd PHP/MySQL
news scripts?  freshmeat has about a billion of them listed.

On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Jason Pincin wrote:

> Good thougts Aaron.  I hope everyone is willing to commit to more regular
> status reports to make this possible.  
> 
> As far as the news, the forms should be simple... and the tables are in
> place.  
> 
> -- 
> Jason
> Linux Knowledge Base Project Leader
> http://vodka.linuxkb.org/~chardros
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 04:49:03PM -0800, Aaron Turner wrote:
> > 
> > I've been starting to think of ways that we can begin to increase
> > awareness of the site.  One thing I'd like to see is weekly or bi-monthly
> > status reports made public to LWN or LinuxToday.  Let people know how
> > things are going, what we're up to, and where we're going.  By doing so,
> > we might even see linuxkb-discuss start getting traffic and make this more
> > like classical Open Source projects.
> > 
> > I'm willing to write the reports and submit them to LWN and LinuxToday if
> > people start reguarly doing their status reports and think it's a good
> > idea.  For an idea of what I'm talking about, check out Midgard's weekly
> > reports:
> > 
> > http://www.midgard-project.org/topic/169.html
> > 
> > which make LWN/LT on a regular basis.  The one thing this would likely
> > require in the near term is the News table to be used and the proper forms
> > for displaying the news items, but that seems like a relatively simple
> > job.  
> > 
> > Comments?
> > 
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Linux Knowledge Base Organization  http://linuxkb.org/
Because world domination requires quality open documentation.
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