Yet another unofficial Ubuntu guide

[Dennis Kaarsemaker]

On ma, 2006-02-06 at 06:00 +0000, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:

> Well, another way to look at the problem is to ask "What's wrong with
> with doc team that people don't feel able to get up and running and
> contributing the way THEY want to?". Alternatively you could ask "Are
> we making it clear how the doc team works, and even that it exists?".

No, we don't. I am working on quite an extensive e-mail about the Ubuntu
website that points out quite a few of such failures (and suggestions
for improvements). Jerome also already mentioned a few "nice things to
do".

> In other words, rather than assuming that the problem is on the other
> side, to see this as a failure of our own community structures, and to
> work hard to fix that. 

Yes, I think my mail was easy to misinterpret and this obviously
happened (this resulting discussion can be very fruitful though). It was
more a desparate cry about how we can fail in making users really part
of the community than about the quality/place/creator of that page.

It is still SO not helpful to Ubuntu that people are creating all kinds
of things on pages scattered around the web, but WE are the ones to
blame for making it hard to discover how to contribute.

-- 
Dennis K.
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