On Fri, January 27, 2006 2:06 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Any and all pkgsrc help (and any help in general) is extremely > valuable to the project. If all we did was push towards clustered > computing, everything else that makes an operating system useful > would become stale. Say, oh, like applications! Then we'd have > a clustered OS with no apps!
I recall someone (Matt, maybe) saying that each open source project needs the "oxygen" of surrounding projects. We already have more than competent C coders working; what we need are all the other services and material that grows up around a project, like what's happened with Linux. In no particular order: - Equivalent to FreshPorts/pkgsrc.se - Live CD - Web-based forums (I know this was discussed recently) - Vendors (re) selling CDs - Books - shirts, stickers, ephemera - News sites for DragonFly (I'm trying to cover this one) - game sites for DragonFly - etc. A lot of these things require little or no programming experience. Heck, take any of the Linux-branded or associated sites out there, and use DragonFly instead as the focus point.
