[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> One of the things I'm finding useful about Richard Campbell's book, >> Managing AFS: The Andrew File System, is the chapters on business case >> studies and the chapter on building the business case for AFS. I hope >> there will be some room in the new web site for people to pay >> attention to the human logistics of AFS in addition to the >> technology--how do people get their organizations to embrace it, and >> how do you keep it financially supported in the IT budget. > > This is one of the things we'd like to have as part of the site, how > people have moved their organizations to AFS, what it took for them > convince their superiors, etc. We'd like to have this website > multi-targeted, in that it has information for both current users and > potential users needing to make a case for it.
The existing site already has a case studies section. If your organization is willing to discuss its use of OpenAFS, please forward text to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Of course, I got very excited in Monday's discussion when someone >> proposed a button for newbies. It is much, much too hard to figure >> out how to stand up a reference demo system if you're not already a >> programmer or AFS groupie. Unfortunately, I don't see reference to >> that in your project page notes. > > It's a distinct possibility that I missed that as part of my notes > from Mondays meeting. We are currently still in the early planning > stages, there is absolutely room for community involvement and > suggestion. Let me go back and see what you mean by "newbie button"and > I'll modify the project page. See the "New to FreeBSD" link on http://www.freebsd.org/ Jeffrey Altman
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