Slashdot Announces Apache and BSD Sections

Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday October 15, 1999 @10:59AM from the aint-that-fun dept.

As with YRO, Apache and BSD are areas that we get many submissions for, but have to choose carefully from for stories that might appear on the homepage. When you have to pick a dozen, that Apache story (while totally relevant) may not make the grade against something of more general interest. Thats why we're happy to announce the new Apache Section manned by Jim Jagielski. As a core member of the Apache Group, I think he's more than qualified. The BSD Section (which actually started on monday 'cuz we had some timely stories that needed to up) is manned by Nik Clayton is a BSD developer and coordinator for the FreeBSD Documentation Project. If you have stories relevant to these new subjects, feel free to submit them to The submissions Form and flag them for the appropriate section.

JimJag:The Apache Guy

"Since the early 80's Jim's been hacking away on the Web. He first obtained guru status from his experience with A/UX. He graduated from simple porting to more in-depth contributing for various projects and has at least some code in just about any popular 'Net software you can name. Lately, he's most widely known as a core member of the Apache Group.

Jim's the president of jaguNET Access Services, LLC, a MD-based ISP and web hosting company, and CTO of OneStopSite, a web design and solutions firm. He's also Exec-VP and Secretary of the Apache Software Foundation. He wishes he got more sleep."

Nik:The BSD Guy

Nik Clayton, 25 (which probably makes me an old fart on /.), born and lives in the UK. He's been contributing to FreeBSD since 1994, but has used NetBSD and OpenBSD in his time (and used to dabble with a little bit of Linux as well). In the day job he's the director of an IT consultancy, which isn't nearly as high-powered as it sounds.

When not writing irregular articles for Daemonnews, (and now /.), or coordinating the efforts of the FreeBSD Documentation Project, Nik plays badminton (badly) and does the occasional bit of crewing for local theatre groups (yeah, I know, right out of TNHD "Portrait of a hacker" section).