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FreeBSD Project Launches New Website
UltimaGuy writes "The FreeBSD Project has launched a new website today. The new design was created by Emily Boyd, a student at Smith College that they had the pleasure of working with through Google's Summer of Code program. The old website is also still available."
from http://logo-contest.freebsd.org/
The result will be announced via announce@ mailing list and on this page (planned before the end of October).
Chill, coming soon.
Well, with a multitude of editors and tons of people submitting articles, they simply just pick them at random. You might have been the first, you might have been the last. It doesn't matter. They simply pick one. This is also one of the main reasons for duplications. So many people post variations on the same thing, and with the multiple "editors" on the site, things simply get posted by more than one of them. The only real way I can see to improve this situation would be to get people that actually check the site for duplicates, and check the submission queue for duplicates, and pick the best submission for a topic. I think time constraints are probably the main reason this isn't done.
When Gentoo makes a new release, we submit a story to Slashdot. Since we know about our releases well ahead of any users, you would think that our submission would get used. It never has. We even go so far as to make sure our Slashdot submission is more of a teaser/summery, than a full-blown press release, as I could understand not wanting to post something that reads identical to the press release. Instead, hours and hours later, we usually get a posting that was submitted by a user, is chock full of false statements and half-truths, and doesn't point out anything that would actually be of interest to anyone.
What do we do about it?
Nothing. We understand that this is the nature of Slashdot, and we submit another story the next release.
I do think the new site looks awesome. Great job, FreeBSD and Emily!
At least post the submissions in a gallery.
They can't. All the submissions remain the copyright of the artist. Only the winner will turn over all copyright to the FreeBSD foundation. All non-winning entrants keep their copyright so unless they get permission from every entrant, they can't display them in a gallery.