[openbeos] Re: Who wants obedn.com?

While the interface kit team isn't anywhere near ready to start coughing 
up design docs for a newsletter, I think this is a great idea as well.

Just as long as we don't use that god-awful blue background. ;)

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>Hype is a great motivator - it inspires people to wait for great things
>ahead, and it pushes the developers to reach the objectives promised.  
A
>newsletter every fortnight should do the trick, posted on the front 
page
>(and archieved) for all the world to see the latest news and status 
reports.
>Since we're slowly finalising our research and moulding designs, we 
should
>start coding in a few weeks time, which is when the newsletters should
>start.  I suggest the first articles to be a defense of the designs, 
that
>is, the first newsletter documents should be our design documents.
>
>I've emailed you privately with a list of people working on the 
networking
>kit.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:        Michael Phipps [SMTP:mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent:        Friday, September 14, 2001 12:33 AM
>> To:  openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject:     [openbeos] Re: Who wants obedn.com?
>> 
>> 
>> What do we want out of a web page?
>> 
>> I would like a list of who is working on what. What groups exists, 
who is
>> on them.
>> The only way that I could see to do that within source forge was to 
make
>> seperate
>> source forge projects for each kit. That kind of seems like a lot 
more
>> work that I 
>> want to go through. Plus all of the integration pains we would have 
to go
>> through.
>> 
>> People need info about the project. What it is, what we are doing, 
etc.
>> Status is nice,
>> too. I was kind of thinking maybe something like what Wine does - a 
web
>> news letter.
>> Maybe like Be did originally? Once a week, we make a newsletter with
>> interesting bits
>> from 1 or 2 of the developers? Maybe I could top it off with an
>> interesting piece? I don't know.
>> Just a thought. :-)

Data is not information, and information is not knowledge: knowledge is 
not understanding, and understanding is not wisdom.
        - Philip Adams

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