Document Storage Facility Website (was Re: docs for installing new Thunderbird builds)

[Matthew East]

On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 15:00 +0330, Mehdi Hassanpour wrote:
> Hey all,

{snip}

> Why a newbie should go to many sites, maybe signup for all of them,
> see how they have classified their articles, read many notes before
> using or posting his question there, and at last find some different
> solutions from these different sites for his problem and all these
> solutions come with NO WARRANTY of any kind... 
> And all these becomes very complicated and hard when a non-english
> newbie wants to starts using linux
> 
> Is this what the new people should understand from the free
> documentation ?
> 
> you know an expert can find what he needs from app's official sites
> and be sure what you are all doing is done for newbies...
> 
> I don't think that many guide sites will help ubuntu newbies... One
> big, complete, fullfeatued, official help site will be more usefull &
> trusted
> So let's all help to have the big goal

Thanks for these words Mehdi, which I completely agree with. I had a
quite extended conversation last night on the forum thread I posted
earlier, and I think that at least things are clear and the road is open
for communication. It doesn't look like we are going to convince the
Document Storage Facility to use our wiki, but don't forget: we can't
force people to merge resources. We can just do our best to get good
dialogue going and try to resolve differences.

We can't take material from that wiki for licensing reasons unless we
attribute it, but hopefully we will be able to negotiate on this point.

For now we can just concentrate on on making sure that the documents
that ARE under our control are good quality, and well organised. There
is plenty of work to do on that!!

Matt

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