If anyone is looking to build a flash based HowTo, there is a great open
source tool called Wink ( http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ ).
It was designed specifically for building application tutorials and
handles screen capture, voice over, nav buttons and palette
optimization. I've been using for internal HowTo's and it is pretty
good. Did one had 475 screen captures, added nav buttons, bubble text
and compiled it and the resulting swf was 1.2 meg in size.
Mike
Graham Todd wrote:
This is a great selection of topics. I'd echo an earlier follow up
comment from Chuck Mariotti about the "flood" that is out there, but I
think a high quality series of articles as Simon suggests, is a good
way to help (they could even be vetted/reviewed by this group).
Asteriskdocs.org is pretty darned good - (hosting a professionally
edited book really helps bring up the quality of the general
documentation!) but it's early days in the popularization of Asterisk
and there are some gaps.
As the rails and turbogears crowd have shown, a screen capture
instructional/demo video with a voice over track that explains what is
happening can go a long way in the marketing dept. If you use VMWare to
boot up trixbox and make the screen recording it'd be pretty easy to put
something together (a good written script for the voiceover helps).
I still think flashy "multimedia" is better if the voiceover is able to
say: "for more details on this kind of configuration see section 3 of
the Asterisk cookbook chapter on setting up a dialplan", etc. - i.e. if
there are good written docs (ironically people complain of rails and
turbogears written documentation). Andrew's topic list nicely breaks
things down into bite sized chunks that could build on a base set of
documentation such as "basic setup", "installing asterisk on
(Linux/*BSD/OSX)" and the like.
I'd be interested in "use cases" too - fairly detailed implementation
scenarios for small home office, small business user, NGO, big org with
legacy PBX etc.
Cheers,
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