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Roy Bamford wrote: |
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> On 2008.02.03 16:49, Matthew Summers wrote: |
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>> Roy Bamford wrote: |
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>>> |
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>>> Many new users come to gentoo as their first Linux. Many of them |
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>>> are poorly informed about both Linux and Gentoo - I don't know how |
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>>> to reach this group *before* they start asking for help in #gentoo |
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>>> and on the forums. Thats the sort problem we have to solve. |
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>>> |
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>> Roy, |
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>> Towards a solution to this particular issue above, I suggest Gentoo |
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>> provides a documentation project (possibly) entitled "Learning Linux |
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>> with Gentoo". Within this we could easily address many issues faced |
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>> by new Linux/Gentoo users. It would seem, as well, to be a good |
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>> service to the Gentoo and larger Linux communities, as many users of |
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>> other distros get information from our documentation pages as well as |
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>> our forums. This could potentially increase Gentoo's exposure as |
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>> well |
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>> as our user base by "de-mystifying" Gentoo and basically easing new |
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>> users into our way of operating, while also providing a great |
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>> resource |
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>> for all Linux/Gentoo users. I do want to state that this is not in |
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>> any way intended to disparage the efforts of the Gentoo Documentation |
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>> Project in any way. I think our docs are fantastic in many ways. I |
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>> am |
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>> simply suggesting some various extensions to that documentation base |
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>> as well as some updates. |
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>> This would also fit into my earlier proposition regarding the use of |
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>> university technical writing interns for said documentation projects |
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>> as posted to this list and syndicated as a guest post on Joshua |
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>> Jackson's (tsunam) blog. |
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>> As always, I offer my assistance/support in the aforementioned |
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>> endeavor. |
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>> Best Regards, |
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>> Matthew W. Summers |
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>> (quantumsummers) |
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> Matthew, |
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> I think this is a good idea. However, one of the issues is that a body |
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> of new users is not even aware of the existance of the current |
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> documentation. |
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> e.g. How to head off questions like "I've just started the minimal CD |
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> to install Gentoo but all I get is a black screen with some text at the |
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> bottom. Where do I click to install Gentoo?" |
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> I'm not 100% sure it wasn't a troll but as this represents a class of |
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> problems seen on the forums, I'm sure that some are genuine. |
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Maybe a quick Q&A for newcomers is needed? A kind of precis of what |
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there already is with links to the longer documents? |
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