Ubuntu Community Documentation: CHANGELOG #1

[Manjul Apratim]

Arrr yes... I meant the help documentation page:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UserDocumentation

The page at http://www.ubuntu.com/support is immutable isn't it? (at least
for me).

Manjul


On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:01 AM, Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi :)
> Which pages are people talking about?  No-one has included links so it's
> difficult to guess what pages.  Is the main page this one?
> http://www.ubuntu.com/support
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
> *From:* Manjul Apratim <manjul.apratim at gmail.com>
> *To:* ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com
> *Sent:* Mon, 13 June, 2011 5:36:21
> *Subject:* Re: Ubuntu Community Documentation: CHANGELOG #1
>
> I have committed the changes I had made to the main page. I hope all shall
> approve of at least most of them. I would still like to have the Ubuntu logo
> centered in the body of the text - I will look into that.
>
> One thing - is it possible for the Ubuntu help pages to be made to look
> like the main Ubuntu website? I think the new website looks much more sleek
> than before, and if the help pages would follow suit, it would be great!
>
> Manjul
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Manjul Apratim <manjul.apratim at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Thank you! I shall go ahead and make the commit to the main page - in the
>> event of any disagreement, we can always change the relevant portions.
>>
>> Thanks for pointing me to the philosophy page - I had never wandered upon
>> it so far, but may I mention that this is just a testament to how awesome
>> Ubuntu's philosophy is in its execution, that just by having used it all
>> this time, I have imbibed what it is, and have independently chanced upon
>> pretty much the same ideas that has been described in the official
>> documentation!
>>
>> Manjul
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Jorge O. Castro <jorge at ubuntu.com>wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Manjul Apratim
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Manjul Apratim
>
>


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