Don't over think this, guys. Again, the point of having a WIKI is to allow for customization. A landing page for Asterisk documentation within voip-info.org is all you need, not a whole new source of documentation.
Jai Rangi wrote: > ********** > I understand. As someone else already mentioned, Voip-Info.org is for > more than just Asterisk. Perhaps if we created a single source that was > just for Asterisk...where everyone could contribute towards making the > documentation better. I would be very interested in helping sponsoring > such a project, just so long as we have enough contributors. > ********** > We have some documentation and I can contribute that. Also we can > provide the physical resources (Domain, Web hosting, bandwidth, storage, > database etc). Ofcourse need a team with designated responsibilities. > > -Jai Rangi > www.didforsale.com <http://www.didforsale.com> > > > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Robert Broyles <rob...@poornam.com > <mailto:rob...@poornam.com>> wrote: > > Jared Smith wrote: >> On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 10:13 -0700, Robert Broyles wrote: >> >>> I'm still pretty new to the mailing lists myself. I don't consider >>> myself a novice Asterisk user, but one of my biggest 'complaints' is >>> the lack of a well documented FAQ or Manual for Asterisk. >>> >> Asterisk is truly an open-source community, and that pertains to >> documentation as well. The quality and quantity of the documentation >> depends heavily on contribution from the community at large. Digium has >> and will continue to put resources towards Asterisk documentation, but >> every contribution from the community at large helps. >> >> > I understand. As someone else already mentioned, Voip-Info.org is > for more than just Asterisk. Perhaps if we created a single source > that was just for Asterisk...where everyone could contribute towards > making the documentation better. I would be very interested in > helping sponsoring such a project, just so long as we have enough > contributors. >>> (Unless one is willing to buy or read O'Reilly's Book - >>> http://www.asteriskdocs.org - which quickly will be outdated again.) >>> >> Alas, you've mentioned the one thing that both makes me happy and sad at >> the same time. Happy that people find it useful, and that O'Reilly was >> kind enough to let us publish it under a Creative Commons license (and >> put the PDF on the web for free!)... and sad that it takes so much time >> and effort to keep up to date. (And just for the record, the time that >> the other authors and I spend on writing the O'Reilly book is our own >> personal time -- I'm not working on it during company time!) >> >> > This was an excellent read. I'm sad to say that I was one that > didn't purchase the book, but made good use of the PDF. I was hoping > to win one of the books during your sessions at AstriCon this past > year. Too bad. :-( > >>> I have made it a personal aim to document all my findings in a blog, >>> so that it's at least searchable by others through Google, in hopes >>> that others might find it useful. >>> >>> But if we had a REGULARLY updated FAQ/Manual ... I think that would >>> greatly cut down on the clutter posts. >>> >> If you're interested and serious about writing, join the asterisk-docs >> mailing list and let's try to get something started. I've been beating >> the documentation drum for almost seven years now, and I'd love to see >> the -docs mailing list come back to life. >> >> > I'll be checking this out. > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users