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  1. It's all about community by dlc · · Score: 2 · on Web Sites-How Can You Draw Users To Them?

    There have already been a bunch of great ideas; here are mine.

    Build community ties. By helping out with other projects, you get your own name out there. When people know who you are, especially when you have helped them with their projects, they will be more likely to use and advertise for your site. How can you help out others?

    • Offer to code review projects you are interested in
    • Offer to write content. Sites like osOpinion, OS Online, and Kuro5hin are always looking for content. themes.org has been advertising for help for a while, in a bunch of areas, inclusing webmastering, PHP development,and mysql management.
    • The GNU project is always looking for help, and has a large tasks list; helping out the FSF is a great way to establish yourself.

    Once you have content up on some of these sites, its easy to reference your own site, whether through direct links, author bios, or something similar. I'm not advocating using other sites for your own gain; I'm advocating reciprocation. You help them, they help you. You may even find that your site has a very natural tie-in with another site, and you can work together to share data, user info, stories, and the like.

    Of course, you can always just stick some advertising in your /. sig.

    darren


    Cthulhu for President!
  2. Notes by drwiii · · Score: 2 · on Interview: CmdrTaco and Hemos Tell All

    A private messaging system would be neat. That's one of the features I implemented at osonline.org, and it's been a nice tool for interacting with others on the site.

  3. Re:/incoming == security breach??? by elixir · · Score: 2 · on Crack.LinuxPPC.org Cracked

    See the following article.

  4. Re:FreeBSD community website? by drwiii · · Score: 2 · on General admission at FreeBSD Con
    There's OS Online's BSD section, which covers all of the BSDs.

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  5. Re:new BSD section by drwiii · · Score: 1 · on FreeBSDCon '99 Speaker Schedule Announced
    I don't know about some of those, but BeOS, MacOS, Amiga, and Windows are covered along with *BSD and Linux over at http://osonline.org/

    (:

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  6. PHP by drwiii · · Score: 1 · on PHP3/4 as Web Development Platform?

    I used PHP for the design of my OS discussion website and have had nothing but good experiences with it. I can't comment on it's stability as a Microsoft IIS module, since I haven't used IIS.

  7. Amiga by drwiii · · Score: 2 · on Amiga's president unexpectedly resigns

    Just FYI, there's an Amiga section currently getting underway on the new osonline.org discussion site.