Stickies in Forum

[TheVeech]

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 08:31 +0000, Matthew East wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 15:35 +0000, TheVeech wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Yes, definitely. New users are our main userbase, so the documentation
> should be easy to understand for those users, and helpful for other
> users too. Or, to avoid repeating myself -
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2007-March/008259.html

Okay.


> > 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?
> 
> Sure.

Okay.  I've knocked up a draft in preparation for chasing up artists and
designers.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/DocumentationWiki

I could do with some feedback, though.

E.g. 
- How would artwork storage work?  What structure should we aim for?
Categories?
- Would it be an idea to also have individual pages for key tutorial
videos?
- Guidelines specific to media for the Wiki (especially for video).
- Tools.
- Preparatory reading.
- Further reading.
- People/links to consult for specific queries.
- Anything else you can think of.

If you or anyone else can hack this page further, please do.
Being new to this wiki, I couldn't figure a better way of linking to the
software pages.


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