[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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