RE: Hurd Orientation

[Jim Franklin]

personally I find the term newbie to be derogatory. anyone with the smarts
and guts to try their hand at hacking the hurd deserves my repect. that is
why i refer to them as new developers.

-----Original Message-----
From: help-hurd-admin@gnu.org [mailto:help-hurd-admin@gnu.org]On Behalf
Of Patrick Strasser
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 2:50 PM
To: Neal H Walfield
Cc: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org; help-hurd@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Hurd Orientation


Neal H Walfield wrote:
>
>                           Welcome to the Hurd
>                           ===================
>
> Welcome to the Hurd.  This email is automatically sent at the begining
> of each month to the help-hurd@gnu.org and debian-hurd@lists.debian.org
> mailing lists.  This message is intended for a quick orientation to new
> users.

Would it make sense to send this Orientation Paper to every fresh
subscribed list member? It would make a good, friendly impression to
newbies.
Would it be a big problem to incorporate this in the list server
subscription mechanism?

Would it be helpful to set up a list of projects with some status info
and names/adresses of supporters, to post few weeks.
People willing to port/code/hack would have a handy overview, and people
who look for the situation at the Hurd would see if/that something is
going on here.

You'r welcome to comment.

Patrick

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