Dennis wrote:
Secondly, have something similiar to the GWN, where we can send out
weekly tips, tricks, news (stuff like the new apache2 ebuild,
beware!), etc.
The apache2 ebuild beware was posted in the real GWN before that was
marked stable (as are tips and tricks) How would you come up with
something new and unique each week that makes it worth reading two GWNs?
Agreed, the apache2 upgrade isn't really a good example because it was
so well documented (in my opinion) on the forums and mentioned in GWN a
few times.
I was thinking more along the lines of highlighting certain programs
that are in portage that go unnoticed since nobody knows about them, and
highlight those and show some examples on how to use them. Or, just
even cover something that is very useful (like sed), but if you don't
know how to use it or know what it does, you never would know about it,
so we could post a small introductory primer.
Last, occassionaly have meetings specific to Gentoo stuff, like howto
setup/configure a mail server or MythTV or Apache2 + PHP5 or something.
Not to shoot the idea down, but I usually don't have time to come to
meetings (IOW: They are not higher priority than the things I already
have scheduled). Most of the things you'd want to do with a Gentoo
machine are already documented with quite explicit howtos on their site,
so I just read those if it can't simply be done by typing: emerge
someprogram.
Agreed, just about every major server/program in the portage tree is
really well documented somewhere how to set it up and get it running,
but sometimes there's nothing like having a bunch of people in the room
trying to get the same thing done, and knocking out a few misconceptions
or inspiring others all at once.
Steve
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