[SGVLUG] OpenSourceHowTo.org

[David Lawyer]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 11:32:11PM +1000, Paul Matthews wrote:
> hi everyone, i've setup a website so that users of open source server side
> software can come and look at instructional guides, how-to's, forums,
> wiki's and all sorts of other information about setting up software on
> Linux for both windows and Linux based networks.
> 
It seems that this message has been sent out to many LUGs.  This
represents a duplication of effort that Linux can ill afford.  These
HOWTOs should have been released thru the Linux Documentation Project
(LDP).  Here's a comment I received from Rick Moen (of the San
Francisco LUG) about this.

-  L- 892/893: Rick Moen              [discuss] (forw) [sf-lug] OpenSourceHowTo.org

Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 07:23:16 -0700
>From discuss-return-10274-dave=lafn.org at en.tldp.org Sat Mar 24 08:11:25 2007
From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
Subject: [discuss] (forw) [sf-lug] OpenSourceHowTo.org
To: discuss at en.tldp.org

(by D.L.: tldp.org is the url for LDP, en means English))

Quoted poster appears to be in Australia.  I've thanked him for the
effort, suggested that he assist LDP and consider helping its
documentation collection, and asked him to look at
http://www.tldp.org/authors/ .

----- Forwarded message from Paul Matthews <paul.matthews at opensourcehowto.org> -----

Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:32:31 +1000 (EST)
From: Paul Matthews <paul.matthews at opensourcehowto.org>
To: sf-lug at linuxmafia.com
Reply-To: paul.matthews at opensourcehowto.org
Subject: [sf-lug] OpenSourceHowTo.org

hi everyone, i've setup a website so that users of open source server side
[snip]

			David Lawyer