Hello everyone!

[Stephanie Mardell]

I like the idea of utilising the Ubuntu Help System and "front ending" it with an initial screen at startup that could provide links to the most common tasks that users want to do once the install is complete.

Stephanie

On Wednesday, September 10, 2008, at 03:45PM, "Matthew East" <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Phil Bull <philbull at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Jonathan,
>>
>> On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 16:25 -0400, Jonathan Judah Ben-Joseph wrote:
>>> My name is Jonathan Ben-Joseph.
>>>
>>> Quoting my launchpad page:
>>> I am currently a computer science student interested mainly in
>>> automation, search and natural language algorithms. I've been
>>> developing software since I was at least 11 years old. My preferred
>>> languages are C, C#, Java, and Python. I've also done work in PHP,
>>> Visual Basic and Perl.
>>>
>>> I'm currently contributing to various open source software projects,
>>> including Mono and Ubuntu. I've been chosen as a participant in the
>>> 2008 Google Summer of Code for the Mono project.
>>>
>>> I use Ubuntu 8.04 right now, and I am interested in joining the
>>> ubuntu-doc team. One thing I want to work on is the OOBE (Out-Of-Box
>>> Experience) of Ubuntu:
>>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu-doc/+spec/ubuntu-oobe
>>
>> Welcome to the team!
>>
>> I'm also interested in the idea of some sort of new-user-greeter to help
>> people find relevant support resources, but I'm yet to hit on a decent
>> implementation. The original was a summer of code project [1], but I
>> wasn't a fan so I wrote my own [2] [3]. That sucked too.
>>
>> I'd be interested to hear what ideas you've had on this. It'd be nice to
>> finally release something to address this issue.
>
>Isn't the simplest and most effective solution to this just to make
>the Ubuntu system help page better looking and more friendly, then
>draw more attention to it or maybe even open it on first login?
>
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