Ubuntu Community Documentation: CHANGELOG #1

Jorge O. Castro jorge at ubuntu.com
Mon Jun 13 02:49:50 UTC 2011


On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Manjul Apratim
<manjul.apratim at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is a fairly comprehensive list of changes I have made to the main page
> and saved in the Draft.

It's hard to tell how the changes affect the page without seeing it in
effect but here's some feedback. Most of your changes look good to me.
I have one comment:

> I would like to add this: yes, we are geeks, ipso facto that we use
> GNU/Linux. However, the one philosophy that Ubuntu has tapped upon, which
> sets it apart from every other distribution out there and makes it
> accessible to the masses, is the age-old idea of encapsulation - hiding the
> internals from the end user (indeed an idea also employed by Apple), an idea
> which allows one to pick and choose their battles; from being the geekiest
> of geeks to the "I-just-want-my-machine-to-work" philosophy. It would be
> phenomenal if the entire documentation can mirror that same philosophy!

There's no need to paraphrase the philosophy here, you can just link
to the prewritten one:

http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/our-philosophy




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