Interesting Article - "Ubuntu made me quit college!!"

[Andrew Mathenge]

>From what I've seen, the doc team is a small group of, pretty much,
the same people
who seem to encourage participation but don't make it easy to
participate. There's a lot
of work to do in documentation. I do admit that most of the team
members are not paid
Canonical workers and that they're spending their own free time to
help build Ubuntu
documentation but entry into the process is pretty closed.

I'm happy that you're interested in working on the Wiki and that
you're putting some effort
into cleaning it and making it better. That's what will ultimately
make the difference. And like
you said, Windows documentation isn't that great either but then
again, we don't have any
say in how it's created. I'm hoping some day to jump back into the
documentation team since
I think it's really important and will make a huge difference when it
comes to user adoption.

Andrew.

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Joel Goguen <jtgoguen at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Andrew Mathenge wrote:
>> Linux documentation, including Ubuntu documentation is severely
>> lacking. I know I might get flack for this, but I've tried to
>> participate in the Ubuntu documentation project, in an attempt to make
>> Linux/Ubuntu more attractive from a non-cash discussion. Talking about
>> things being free just doesn't cut it. People will pay money for
>> Windows. That's the bottom line.
> What troubles did you run into trying to work with the doc team?  I'm
> interested because I'm doing some work on the doc wiki and I'm still
> debating whether I want to try to become a doc team member.  I
> definitely agree that the documentation just isn't where it needs to be!
>  But to be fair, I've never been able to get help from the Windows
> system docs either.
>
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> Joel Goguen
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