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On 9/8/06, Mike Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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, Mike Ashton Quality Track Intl Ph: 647-722-2092 x 251 Cell: 416-527-4995 Fax: 416-352-6043 QTI CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY INFORMATION The contents of this material are confidential and proprietary to Quality Track International, Inc. and may not be reproduced, disclosed, distributed or used without the express permission of an authorized representative of QTI. Use for any purpose or in any manner other than that expressly authorized is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately delete it and all copies, and promptly notify the sender. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
