On Sunday 08 August 2004 18:30, Gurban M. Tewekgeli wrote: > Hi, > > > I'm going to begin with the "Linux command line" > > topic, but a vast number of other topics will > > naturally be open, and I need volunteers to write > > for them as well. > > I can write some articles about programming (gtk+), > i18n, l10n, ... .
Very nice tread. It's encouraging to see some new faces, who seem to know what they are talking about, and also have the willpower to pull off something. I hope this whole effort leads somewhere. I am personally not able to contribute anything right now, maybe sometime in future. But, here is my question, it seems the OP is designing a site and wants to WRITE persian Linux tutorials. Nice idea indeed, but my question is, why should we WRITE the tutorials? There are already thousands of good tutorials on the net, covering nearly every aspect of a Linux distribution. There is TLDP, with very highly technical and complete tutorials, mostly written by application developers themselves. If you are targeting beginner users, then I think we can take a look at Grokdoc (the sister of Groklaw) which is producing some very easy-to-understand tutorials. Others also exist, like the Linux CookBook (Debian-based, but still a very nice book) and many other Open Source tutorials and some Open Source books (The Bruce Perence Open Source series comes to mind). The most important thing that I learned from Open Source Software, is not to reinvent the wheel. The whole evolution of science is made possible my building upon the works of others. I say, find some good tutorials, start translating them, and put them in a good and easy-to-navigate website, and voilÃ, you have made a great contribution. I don't feel excited about writing everything from scratch. -- /* It is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. People can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. -- Herman Göring, Nürnberg Trials */ Aryan Ameri _______________________________________________ bna-linuxiran mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bna-linuxiran
