Voices from the users

[Kevin Cole]

Mauricio Hernandez Z. wrote:
> <SNIP>
> 
>>I had suggested something similar a while back: For people who do not have
>>a good internet connection, there should be some snapshot of the LoCo Team
>>list on the Live CD.  (That was before I understood that most LoCo's cover
>>an entire country.)  If newbies could just pop in a CD without a network
>>connection, and get a list of people in their geographic region that might
>>be able to help them get started, it would be very useful.  However, that
>>might require LoCo contacts to volunteer a non-e-mail alternative method
>>of providing help...
> 
> 
> Well, actually, one of the many features of Moin is that all its pages
> stored /data dir are plain text, and therefore backing up is just a
> matter of copy/paste.
> 
> What is this good for?
> 
> Simple. We could easily ship MoinMoinDesktopEdition (defaults run
> in :8000, IIRC) or a standard Moin server instance. Any moin 'falvour'
> can easily access to a /data dir containing all our "selected" pages.
> 
> Actually, one of the projects we had in Tecnocimiento was to enable
> synchronization of these /data dirs from a central server (in this case;
> our repository). Unfortunately we could not continue with the idea but
> that is a diff story ;p

I like Moin, but my thinking is more about what documentation might be
included on a Live CD.  Since it's not writable, a wiki-based format
would seem to be a bit of overkill. I don't have any strong preferences
for a particular format.  My only concern was that the information is
provided in a way that does not require a network connection. However,
requiring a live CD to run any kind of server in order to view the pages
on it wouldn't be a great idea.  Whatever format is chosen, the documentation
should be readable with whatever client applications (browsers, pagers,
editors, etc) are shipped on a Live CD.  Wiki pages are sort of readable
as plain-text, I suppose, although there I'd want hard line wrapping,
in case someone's using "cat" to try to read stuff. ;-)

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