Fw: wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents

[Jon Pruett]

I've asked myself and a few others the same thing, and the best answer that I know is this:

http://wiki.ubuntu.com is for team collaboration, presentations, meeting notes, events, press releases, etc.

http://help.ubuntu.com is the eventual home for all ubuntu documentation, with all user community driven docs in the wiki at  http://help.ubuntu.com/community 

I believe the vision is to migrate http://doc.gwos.org into http://help.ubuntu.com but hopefully Matt or someone more experienced than I on the ubuntu-doc mailing list can corroborate or correct me on this.

There is probably a good chance the long term vision plan is laid out on a website somewhere, but I haven't seen it yet. Maybe that's something we should place on all 4 of the main sources of ubuntu help - the ones mentioned so far and http://ubuntuforums.org/
 
Thanks,

- Jon


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----- Original Message ----
From: Daniel Skov Klejnstrup <danielklejnstrup at gmail.com>
To: Jon Pruett <montanamax at yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2006 1:34:56 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents

Hi Jon,

Maybe I make a fool of myself now, but what should be posted on:

* wiki.ubuntu.com ?
* help.ubuntu.com/community/ ?
* doc.gwos.org ?

All this double or trible posting seems ridiculous!

Does the average ubuntu-user know where to go, to search for help?

Sincerely yours,

Daniel Skov Klejnstrup (Daller)

fredag 01 december 2006 22:36 skrev Jon Pruett:
> Hi - I'm working on porting the various documentation pages from the
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com site to the new community wiki at
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community
>
> The SoftwareEquivalents pages have been flagged for moving, and I'm
> thinking about changing the layout of the information as I'm porting it
> across per the discussion below.
>
> Do you have any ideas / objections / comments on this approach? If so, or
> if you would prefer to port these pages over yourself, please let me know.
> I'm personally very interested in building out and/or contributing to the
> CAD software page in the new wiki as I'm still looking for the perfect
> Linux CAD solution for myself, and trying everything I can find in the
> meantime.
>
> Please let me know within two weeks is you have any comments or objections
> to this approach.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Jon "MontanaMax" Pruett
>
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> ----- Forwarded Message ----
> From: Matthew East <matt at mdke.org>
> To: ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com
> Sent: Friday, December 1, 2006 2:34:17 PM
> Subject: Re: wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents
>
> > I'm new to the group
>
> Welcome aboard!!
>
> > My concern is for duplication of information and confusing of end users.
> > I'm leaning towards "yes, we should port the pages not in their current
> > format". I think the main Software Equivalents page could remain as it
> > does have value for new to Linux users understanding what new
> > applications they can use to solve current needs. But I think the page
> > should be made more of a jumping point to existing wiki pages such as
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MultimediaApplications and create new
> > pages for things like the CAD software.  I think this could be more
> > productive than listing of one for one "old application vs new
> > application and fit better into the community wiki style and format.
>
> That sounds like a very sensible idea to me. There are bare lists of
> equivalents elsewhere on the internet that can be linked to if users are
> interested in that sort of list.
>
> I'm surprised we don't have pages of this type somewhere on the help wiki
> already - have a quick rummage around.
>
> Matt