Hey, I installed a new version of the introduction text (attached).
Feel free to contribute changes: cvs -d:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/web/administration co administration/content Check administration/content/gnu-content/homepage.txt and administration/content/nongnu-content/homepage.txt -- Sylvain On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 02:36:53PM -0400, Jonathan Gonzalez V. wrote: > > Hi all, > > John suggest it on the #savannah channel that we should maybe change the > frontage text, which I think it was a pretty good idea since I think > that the current text doesn't represent what is Savannah at all. > > Here is my proposal: > > Savannah, as many other sites, it's a forge, with a big different, we > only host free software. All the software that you can find here it > was reviewed and verified that doesn't have any license problem which > include dependencies. > > Savannah aim to be a central point for development, maintenance and > distribution of GNU Software and for projects that are free but not > part of the GNU project we provide savannah.nongnu.org. > > If your project it's part of Savannah, it means that it was approved > as part of the GNU project or at least as a Free Software that runs > on free platforms and use only free dependencies. > > We want to provide, as far as we can, a good piece of software to help > with the work that lead a project needs. > > Savannah also provides space for GUGs that may need a space to > centralize their work. > > We provide two mailing-lists that you may want to subscribe to: > > * savannah-announce: low-volume notifications of important issues and > changes at Savannah > * savannah-users: discussion of savannah-announce and any user-oriented topic > > The software used to run Savannah is being developed by the Savane > project. The Levitating, Meditating, Flute-playing Gnu logo is a GNU > GPL'ed image provided by the Nevrax Design Team. > > Reviews, correction and news idea will be good. Also there's a different > text for sv.nongnu.org, should we make it the same? there's a reason why > the text are different?. > > Regards,
<p>Welcome to <strong>Savannah</strong>, the software forge for people committed to <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html";>Free Software</a>:</p> <p><ul> <li>We host free project that run on free operating systems and without propriatery software</li> <li>Our service runs with 100% free software, including <a href="/projects/savane-cleanup">itself</a></li> <li><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/WhyChooseSavannah";>More...</a></li> </ul></p> <p>Savannah aim to be a central point for development, maintenance and distribution of <a href="http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html";>GNU Software</a>. Plus, for projects that are free but not part of the GNU project we provide <a href="http://savannah.nongnu.org/";>savannah.nongnu.org</a>. <p> If you would like to use these facilities to host your project, then go to the <b>Register new project</b> menu entry. </p> <p> We provide two mailing-lists that you may want to subscribe to: <ul> <li><a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-announce";>savannah-announce</a>: low-volume notifications of important issues and changes at Savannah</li> <li><a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-users";>savannah-users</a>: discussion of savannah-announce and any user-oriented topic</li> </ul> </p>
<p>Welcome to <strong>Savannah</strong>, the software forge for people committed to <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html";>Free Software</a>:</p> <p><ul> <li>We host free project that run on free operating systems and without propriatery software</li> <li>Our service runs with 100% free software, including <a href="/projects/savane-cleanup">itself</a></li> <li><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/WhyChooseSavannah";>More...</a></li> </ul></p> <p><strong>Savannah.nongnu.org</strong> is a central point for development, maintenance and distribution of <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html";>Free Software</a> that runs on free operating systems.</p> <p> If you would like to use these facilities to host your project, then go to the <b>Register new project</b> menu entry. </p> <p> We provide two mailing-lists that you may want to subscribe to: <ul> <li><a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-announce";>savannah-announce</a>: low-volume notifications of important issues and changes at Savannah</li> <li><a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-users";>savannah-users</a>: discussion of savannah-announce and any user-oriented topic</li> </ul> </p> <p>If you would like to make your project part of the GNU project, please check the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html";>GNU Software Evaluation Team</a> to understand the philosophical and technical aspects of the GNU project. Before doing this, you should read the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html";>GNU Code Standards</a> to find out if your software complies with them and talk to your fellow developers about it.</p>
