Stickies in Forum

[TheVeech]

If you want to run any text by me for prose editing, I'll volunteer to
help you with this.  A lot of people have a great talent for ideas, but
most of these same people aren't that good at knocking out text.  Some
of them know it, too, so they don't contribute their ideas and talents
just because of this one simple shortcoming.

If you're able to tell them not to worry about this aspect of their
contribution and to just knock out something - even just an outline with
notes - people like me can look at it, consult the original author and
hack the text into some sort of shape.  Just a thought - let me know
what you think.

If it's for beginners, what's the tone to be like?  The forums tend to
be pretty informal and friendly, but much of the documentation (and
wiki) tends to be quite formal and dry.  Might a middle-ground be worth
aiming for here?

A personal observation: I find much of the existing documentation
suffers from not being broken up with illustrations.  This might not be
the best approach for documentation for beginners.  Might it be an idea
to hunt down people who have a talent and enthusiasm for
design/graphics?

Currently I'm working on getting as many projects listed in a more
accessible way as I can.  Initially, I'm doing it through a list that's
in alphabetical order (see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Software),
but when all's done, it'll be easy to link to a project's page in
forums, emails, etc., list projects according to category, and so on,
while keeping it within the Ubuntu 'universe'.  Once a comprehensive
enough list is up, it should be pretty helpful across the board.

The intention is partly to serve beginners, too.  So if you know anyone
who's passionate about a particular piece of software and wants to
contribute something, I'd appreciate it if you'd throw them my way.

email: theveech at gmail.com


On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 07:38 -0700, TMulgrew at stpetes.org wrote:
> I thought I was mailing to the docs mailing list ..
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> I will re-post , address ? is it ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com
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> I agree with the time thing ...
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> But that is what I am saying
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> I am starting a "Beginners Team"
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> I anticipate a large and diverse group
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> Our focus is on new users, but I would like my team to contribute to the
> wiki
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> This kind of project would be perfect for my team as they are forums based.
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> I also want to increase the visibility of the wiki on the forums ...
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> I wiki for the UDSF and find a post in the forums, as I suggested, has
> increased visibility of the UDSF and is well received :)
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> On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 22:08 +0100, Geert Poels wrote:
> > I browsed the help forums again today.
> > 'It breaks my heart' to see to much good advice and tips being written,
> > only not in the docs.
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> > Can't we put up a sticky saying :
> > Found some usefull advice here and not in the docs ? Please help the
> > community and add it to our wiki.
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> This has been in the tips and tricks forum for the last year and a half.
> I'm not sure whether adding something similar in the technical support
> areas of the forum is appropriate: that's where people go to get help,
> rather than to contribute to it.
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> Matt
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