Guys and gals, I volunteer to do this now, today!  check out my new logo
(work in progress at http://www.future.net/~tomthai/netbsd_logo.gif).
feedbacks?  I'll start updating the netbsd pages and put online mans and
searchable archives.. for now it'll be on my server since I have no access
to www.netbsd.org YET (hint Jason & Phil.. got my email yet?)  take care.
I'll have some of it up and will give out the address after this weekend.
Later.. 

On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Chris G. Demetriou wrote:

> > > 	3. www.netbsd.org doesn't have much content.
> > 
> > I agree with this.
> 
> The NetBSD WWW pages' content is ... endlessly "amusing" to me.
> 
> A small number of people initially got together and created most of
> the content that's there now.  I was one of them, and, after helping
> to get the pages started, bowed out to spend my time on other things.
> Since that time, some new features have been added and some
> appearances have been changed (and, thankfully, some port maintainers
> actually keep their pages up to date 8-), but, by and large, the meat
> is the same.  There are no searchable mailing list archives.  There
> are no on-line manual pages or documentation.  The pages that were
> "under construction" when I handed off the web pages -- A COUPLE OF
> YEARS AGO -- have not yet been finished.  The only 'neat' new feature
> I can think of that's been added are the PR summaries...
> 
> The "amusing" thing about this is that N people have volunteered to
> add various features to the web server, to make various improvements,
> etc.  They've been put in a position (i.e. given accounts, authority,
> etc.), where they can do the work that they signed up to do, but it
> just never happens.  The most annoying thing to me that fell by the
> wayside was searchable mailing list archives.  There was (at least
> one) volunteer to do them, he was enabled to do them, and he never did.
> 
> Yes, I of all people understand about the nature of volunteer
> projects, and about volunteers' time.  In this case (for once 8-),
> however, it's not only the NetBSD project's leadership which is at
> fault for the lack of useful content on the web pages.  A lot of
> volunteers volunteered, then failed to produce.
> 
> 
> 
> cgd
> 


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