Subject: Re: netatalk.com
From: BWS - Offwhite (brennan@offwhite.net)
Date: Mon Jul 31 2000 - 21:40:04 EDT
I am not much for coding, but I may be able to help in working on/hosting
the site. I use Netatalk as a Mac user and I administer 4 FreeBSD boxes
and have Netatalk running on all of them. I have jumped through the hoops
to get it to let me print and everything else I needed to do and would
like to see a good Netatalk site come together.
My current side project is GreasyDaemon.com.
- http://www.greasydaemon.com/
I am working to build an information portal for BSD Unix
systems. Netatalk is likely be a topic I will have to cover.
What I do for a living is develop websites. My primary work goes into
OnMilwaukee.com, a local city guide.
- http://www.onmilwaukee.com/
That features an articles system with a talkback option. I could create a
slimmed down version for a Netatalk site rather quickly as I already plan
to do one for GreasyDaemon.com. This articles system allows writers to
enter new articles into the system and set a start and end time for the
articles along with a priority rank and category. That effectively
generates the whole site.
I do all this from an iMac, one at home and one at work. I could also
host this site, or maybe a part of it if you cannot find a suitable
environment for it. I would need access to a MySQL database along with
various perl modules to I can interface with the database properly.
Hosting by me would free assuming traffic does not get out of hand. If it
does we will need to arrange for a way to pay for hardware
upgrades... perhaps selling novelty items on copyleft.net.
Three Hundred T-Shirts buys a new 15gig hardrive and 64 megs a RAM!!!
:)
Let me know if you could use my help.
Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin
projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com
Microsoft: Will you get a macro virus today?
http://www.greasydaemon.com/noms/ <- Why avoid MS?
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Harry Zink/Netatalk List wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> You're doing an awesome job on helping bring this project together in an
> effective manner - you ought to be applauded. Since my coding ability is
> pretty much nil, allow me to lend a hand in some other way.
>
> I spoke to my buddy Steve (Hi, Steve), the owner of the netatalk.com domain,
> and he's ready to redirect it to the sourceforge location so we have a
> decent URL for people to find (since pigs will probably fly before Wes will
> do anything with his domains except sit on them).
>
> We're also ready to write up some killer press releases (it's one of the
> things we like doing), when your work is ready for a more public
> consumption, specifically ready for a renumbering to 1.5 (and I think it
> ought to be 'netatalk 1.5', effectively severing it from the umich
> umbilical). I'd suggest sending such releases regularly to sites like
> linuxtoday.com, linux weekly news, macintouch/macnn/macweek.
>
> I'd also like to help with suggestions in regards to the RPM
> configurations/functionality, as much as possible. Since I work as a
> consultant and I have access to various situations/software/hardware
> configurations, I'd like to help it out as much as possible.
>
> I also run netatalk on x86 boxes, as well as linuxppc boxes.
>
> My suggestion is to provide RPMs for the following platforms:
> - x86/386 (RedHat)
> - x86/586 (Mandrake)
> - PPC (Yellow Dog/LinuxPPC)
>
> If you can help/explain to me how to make the RPM, I can do those on my PPC
> boxes.
>
> We should encourage others to contribute packages for:
>
> - StormLinux
> - Debian
> - FreeBSD
> - Solaris (since there are tons of people with regular questions about
> SOlaris on those).
>
> Not sure who we can solicit for help on those.
>
> Your thoughts,
>
> Harry
>
>
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