[CoLoCo] UBUNTU SURVIVAL : SAVE THY SELF

[Neal McBurnett]

It is great to see folks eager to get involved!

Remember my recent talk on the subject is at
 http://mcburnett.org/neal/talks/contribute_to_ubuntu.html

There are lots of opportunities no matter what your skills.

David - do you remember where the discussions on a "splash-screen to
welcome new users upon first boot offering a general tutorial to the
system" happened?  Starting by reviewing that sort of stuff could
avoid a lot of wheel-spinning.  And of course there may be other
better approaches to mitigating security risks.

Or Google searches might uncover them.

-Neal

On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 06:28:03PM -0700, David Overcash wrote:
> I'd suggest you two hang out in the #ubuntu-motu channel and see if someone
> there likes your idea...  another good place to find help would be in #
> ubuntu-us.  I personally don't have any spare free time to undertake this
> project, but those two places should at least be of some help.
> 
> -David
> 
> On Nov 29, 2007 5:55 PM, Brett Trigg <brett_trigg at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>     Hi There,
>         I would be interested too.
>         Not much of a developer here, but I can definitely help with the
>     "dangers of" text and do leg work to get it where it needs to be.
>         I also am a "Hey!  That hill looks like a good one to die on!" kind of
>     person, so I'd be willing to go to bat for the idea.
> 
>         Any guidance would be appreciated.
> 
> 
>     TJ Heaney wrote:
> 
>         As a new-to-developing-in-linux-and-Ubuntu guy, I wouldn't have a clue
>         where to start. But I am interested in learning, would anyone be
>         interested in taking on an apprentice, and not in the Sith sort of way?
> 
> 
> 
>         On Nov 29, 2007 4:07 PM, David Overcash <funnylookinhat at gmail.com>
>         wrote:
> 
>             <snip>
>             On Nov 29, 2007 3:43 PM, <phillip.j.tribble at seagate.com> wrote:
> 
>                 GIT ER DUN!
> 
> 
>             </snip>
>             ???
> 
>             Anyways, you guys have brought up a very good point in talking
>             about having a tutorial on the desktop for root access.  In
>             general, linux IS very different from windows in the sense that
>             installing anything requires root access and the general
>             configuration of the file-system is much different as well.  There
>             has been some discussion in the past to have a splash-screen to
>             welcome new users upon first boot offering a general tutorial to
>             the system, but as far as I have heard it simply never had enough
>             people to jump on the project to get it rolling.
> 
>             You should SERIOUSLY consider creating a blueprint for this in
>             launchpad and on a wiki-page, submitting it to the correct people,
>             and try to get it pushed into Hardy or Hardy+1.
> 
>             -David
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