Re: Weekly Reports

[Aaron Turner <aturner@linuxkb.org>]

Ok, let me know what you think:

http://www.linuxkb.org/news/

You can add, modify, delete articles via:

http://www.linuxkb.org/news/admin/

Jason, I think this might actually be better than anything we can hack
together in 30 or 180 minutes.  At least having all the forms is a
definate plus.

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On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Jason Pincin wrote:

> For now thats fine.  Eventually I won't want that... cuz it won't tie in
> with anything.  But for now, I care not.  If it can wait til next week, I
> can have one done in about 30 minutes.  Otherwise, go to town.
> 
> Jason
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 02:09:39PM -0800, Aaron Turner wrote:
> > 
> > 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?
> > > > 
> > > > --
> > > > Aaron Turner, Core Developer       http://vodka.linuxkb.org/~aturner/
> > > > Linux Knowledge Base Organization  http://linuxkb.org/
> > > > Because world domination requires quality open documentation.
> > > > aka: aturner@vicinity.com, aturner@pobox.com, ion_beam_head@ashtech.net
> > > 
> > 
> > --
> > Aaron Turner, Core Developer       http://vodka.linuxkb.org/~aturner/
> > Linux Knowledge Base Organization  http://linuxkb.org/
> > Because world domination requires quality open documentation.
> > aka: aturner@vicinity.com, aturner@pobox.com, ion_beam_head@ashtech.net
> 
> -- 
> Jason
> http://vodka.linuxkb.org/~chardros
>