Getting Started Guide - Looking for Feedback/QA

[Dougie Richardson]

Avi Hein wrote:
> I've written a (DRAFT) getting started user manual to Ubuntu 8.10 
> Intrepid Ibex. It's intended to be a user guide for Microsoft Windows 
> and Mac OS users who are new to Linux and Ubuntu, fulfilling the goal 
> of Ubuntu as a desktop OS. As such, I've completely avoided the 
> terminal and only provided GUI instructions for user tasks.
>
> This is in DRAFT form (hence the restricted license, I will release 
> the final version with an open license) and I am looking for your 
> feedback, suggestions, and corrections (particularly technical, but 
> also style) and QA on this document. I'm an entry-level technical 
> writer, so this should be at least as "good" as a commercial user 
> guide (documentation being one of the biggest weakness in much open 
> source software).
>
> It's available for 30 days via MediaFire at 
> http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=d359e96a2500985424a64199ac7f73e5e04e75f6e8ebb871 
> but the earlier your corrections, suggestions, and QA the better (I 
> plan on having it in final format by next Monday). Please let me know 
> (at avihein at gmail.com <mailto:avihein at gmail.com>) your thoughts, 
> suggestions, etc.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Avi Hein
Avi I wish you every success but posting to a list of documentation 
writers to tell them their documentation is the weakest area of OSS is a 
little insulting - intentional or not.

Best wishes,

Dougie