Proposal: Tuxtorial - an ehanced documentation creation and hosting system

[Phil Bull]

Hi Anirudh,

I already discussed this on the GNOME docs list, so I won't repeat what
I said there [1]. I've just picked up on a couple of parts of your
message, that I missed before, though:

On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 16:09 +0530, Anirudh Sanjeev wrote:
> Over time, I have the vision of expanding this and making Tuxtorial the
> preferred medium of producing documentation content for Desktop
> applications everywhere, replacing the current wiki/forum/blog model. I am
> also experimenting with another client application which would be solely
> designed to view documentation, and can hopefully be distributed as part of
> the "help center" so desktop users have quick and easy access to tutorials.

I see that you mention the "current wiki/forum/blog" model. For the
desktop help, we don't use this model - we have system documentation
available in Yelp (click System -> Help and Support). How does your
software fit in with this?

> I am doing this and other Linux documentation related work as part of my
> post-college Startup company. While almost all the code will be free
> software, I do intend to make the venture slightly profitable.

I've been at the Desktop Help Summit this weekend and a few of us
discussed your idea. We were in agreement that "almost all" of the code
being free is unsettling for us. Can you specify what won't be free?
It's *extremely* important for us that our entire toolchain is free and
open, so we would be uncomfortable if we had to use something
proprietary. (To clarify, I should point out that there's no objection
to you making money with open source software, but non-free elements
would be a serious issue for us.)

Thanks,

Phil

[1] -
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-doc-list/2010-March/msg00118.html

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