Getting Started Guide - Looking for Feedback/QA

[Dougie Richardson]

Hi,

No its my fault, badly worded, I have nothing against your project, its the "documentation is weak" argument that bugs me.

Cheers,

Dougie

I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

(George Carlin)


--- On Mon, 16/3/09, adam hyde <adam at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> From: adam hyde <adam at xs4all.nl>
> Subject: Re: Getting Started Guide - Looking for Feedback/QA
> To: "Dougie Richardson" <ddrichardson at btinternet.com>
> Cc: AviHein at gmail.com, ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Monday, 16 March, 2009, 6:19 AM
> hey
> 
> Sorry, I saw this thread a bit late. I hope its not too
> late to chime
> in. I think the Getting started guide you have made looks
> great Avi.
> Good work!
> 
> I wanted to ask Dougie a question about a comment he made
> (see below)
> 
> 
> > >
> > > Linux.com wrote about the admirable FLOSS manual
> project 
> > > (http://www.linux.com/feature/155205):
> "Documentation is one area in 
> > > which free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) is
> weakest." That is 
> > > what I meant, but we are working to improve this.
> > >
> > Don't even get me started on this.  I had dealings
> with this project in 
> > the last run of the Desktop Training Team and their
> documentation is not 
> > really any different to ours.  Its just the delivery
> method that is 
> > better (at least until Moin supports PDF generation on
> the fly).
> 
> It sounds like you are really frustrated by FLOSS Manuals.
> I was
> wondering if you could say more about this? For clarities
> sake, I
> founded FM, and I'm asking because it seems you have
> had some sort of
> dealing with us that you didn't like? If I can help
> clear this up I
> would welcome the opportunity. My apologies if I have
> misinterpreted
> your tone.
> 
> kind regards,
> 
> adam
> 
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