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Roy Bamford wrote: |
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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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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 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 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 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 endeavor. |
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Best Regards, |
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Matthew W. Summers |
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(quantumsummers) |
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