I als talked to Mike McLagan(the Linux.org guy) about ca.linux.org..
Thanfully he didn't take offense to our little tiff that we had that went
all the way to slashdot.) He said that a canadian representative or wide
or something group should probably get it, and then we can get whatever we
want or can out of them.
Heck, maybe we could even give you <machine name>.bc.ca.linux.org out ;)
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On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Jared Proudfoot wrote:
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> Sorry I missed the steering ctte. meeting last night... I got trapped at
> the office until fairly late.
>
> Anyways, I'd be more than happy to host the site on my box
> (ashi.footprints.net), which is currently co-located at Internet Direct.
> I've got plenty of space and IPs available, so it shouldn't be a problem.
> I'd also be willing to create accounts for anyone maintaining the site for
> us.
>
> And speaking of the web site, why not register linux.bc.ca? Then we could
> have vancouver.linux.bc.ca for our site, and point victoria.linux.bc.ca,
> etc, etc to their respective web sites as well.
>
> Just some thoughts,
>
> Jared Proudfoot
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> Jared Proudfoot
> Distributed Systems Analyst
> ISM-BC, Information Systems Management (B.C.) Corporation
> Tel: (604) 451-2239 Fax: (604) 412-3694
> Email: jared_proudfoot@ismbc.com
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> Dave Michelson <davem@ee.ubc.ca> on 16/07/98 01:10:54 PM
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> To: linux@ee.ubc.ca (Vancouver Linux Mailing List)
> cc: (bcc: Jared Proudfoot/ISM-BC)
> Subject: VanLUG's temporary website
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> Hi, all.
>
> As most of you know, Andrew Daviel has maintained a Vancouver Linux
> Mailing List archive and such at
>
> http://vancouver-webpages.com/vlinux/
>
> for the past few years. As an interim measure, I recently asked him
> to update the information concerning the Vancouver Linux Users Group,
> including the agenda for our next meeting.
>
> Meanwhile, many of you have expressed interest in contributing to a
> more comprehensive web presence for the group. This will be a fair
> amount of work given that we'll have to
>
> * find a suitable host (assuming Andrew doesn't want to host the
> expanded site.)
>
> * register a suitable host and domain name, e.g., www.vanlug.org
>
> * decide what information to include on the site
>
> * decide upon a suitable tree structure/hierarchy for the site
>
> * design a suitable home page
>
> * recruit people to author subsidiary pages
>
> * maintain it!
>
> So this is a big, long-term project. If you would like to contribute,
> please contact Steering Committee member Simon deWeerdt
> (deweerdt@physics.ubc.ca).
>
> (If you're looking for ideas, a good place to start is the list of
> LUG websites compiled by CLUE:
>
> http://www.global.proximity.on.ca/clue/lug.html )
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>
>
> --
> Dave Michelson AT&T Wireless Services
> davem@ee.ubc.ca http://www3.bc.sympatico.ca/davem/
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