Re: Linux KB Org. Sign Up Response

[Roger Dingledine <arma@mit.edu>]

I've got a proposed paragraph to add to your rejection-mail. It can't hurt,
and it might get something useful out of them.
--Roger

 
> Dear Sir/Madam,
> 
> First, we'd like to thank you for taking the time to submit an application
> to be a developer for the Linux Knowledge Base Project.  For the record,
> this choice was not an easy one.  There were over 50 applicants for what
> ended up being 5 positions.  People were selected on the criteria of
> experience, skill, time available, and their reasons for wanting to help.  
> 
> If you received this email, it means that at this time we do not currently
> need your services.
> 
> We will however keep all of the applications on record should we need
> additional help in the future.  Furthermore, we hope all of you in the
> future will be category managers or write articles to be included in the
> database.  Expect additional announcements on the various news sites and
> comp.os.linux.announce over the next few months as we roll out the site.
> Of course you can always visit http://www.linuxkb.org/ for the latest
> news.

On the other hand, many of you seemed eager to start working on articles or
translations, and you can do this whether or not we're ready for submissions
quite yet. It will take some motivation and creativity on your part to come
up with useful topics and get the documents written without supervision, but
the documents themselves will certainly be useful in their own right. If you
are interested in working on this, we encourage you to check out the Simple
End-User Linux (SEUL, http://www.seul.org/) publications group and the Open
Source Writers Group (OSWG, http://www.linuxchix.org/techwriters/) as good
fora for discussing topics and sharing drafts.
 
> Also, anyone who is interested in finding out more about what we're doing
> or have some ideas that they'd like to share, we'd like to invite you to
> join one of the linuxkb mailing lists.  We have two public lists:
> 
> linuxkb-discuss   - A open mailing list for discussing any aspect of the 
> 	Linux Knowledge Base Organization.  We will be discussing the 
> 	current project as well as entertaining ideas for future
> 	enhancements/services for the site.  If you have any comments
>         about the existing site or ideas for new features we'd love to 
>         hear them!
> 
> linuxkb-announce  - A one-way moderated mailing list dedicated to
> 	informing the Linux community about the Linux Knowledge Base
> 	Organization.  All new features, services, and their availablilty
> 	will be announced via this list.
> 
> 
> To subscribe, send an email to:
> majordomo@seul.org
> 
> and in the body put:
> subscribe linuxkb-discuss
> -or-
> subscribe linuxkb-announce
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Aaron Turner
> 
> --
> Aaron Turner, Core Developer       http://vodka.linuxkb.org/~aturner/
> Linux Knowledge Base Organization  http://linuxkb.org/
> Because world domination requires quality open documentation.
>