Crossposting to debian-doc mailing list. Hello everybody,
I am one of the people who wanted to start the novice-doc project. On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:07:44 +0000 Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The slides give a good rationale for Debian-community ie > * contribute something to Debian without having to be a Debian > Developer I found out (the hard way) that it is more difficult to contribute then I thought. > * international - multi-language. Good idea, but first we need to have enough content to translate :) > Some ideas about how Debian users can contribute: > * polish Stable > * improve documentation yep > * produce video tutorials > > You can add ideas from previous posts: > * help aimed at newbies - perhaps a list or a forum Hhhm, I think this is covered pretty well by the debian-user mailing list and forum.debian.net. We shouldn't spread the community. > * documentation aimed at newbies This is where I and a few others would like to contribute. > * a searchable knowledge base in the form of a directory > * a Debian starter pack (Live-CD/install disc(s)) and instructions > > I think the priority must be to firm up this list of ideas and then > see what might be the best vehicle to deliver them. For example: > * D-community as a single, integrated project? > * D-community as an umbrella organisation with different, but > linked, subprojects? > * Does it need CVS/SVN? > * Does it need a wiki? I think a wiki is needed at least for the documentation and knowledge base part. This makes contributing much easier. I like the way newbiedoc works, where you can contribute even without signing up. This makes it much easier to keep the docs up-to-date. > * Does it need a CMS? > * Does it need a forum? > * Does it need mailing lists? IMO forums/mailing lists should be (mostly) for internal use only, because we already have good support forums/mailing lists and it is unlikely/undesirable to split the community. > > Roughly I came to the conclusion, that debian-community.org should > > have a NM (new member) process :-) (But, it should not take as long > > as in Debian, rather the opposite, maybe it can show, that NM > > doesnt have to be long and bureucratic..) > > > > The steps could be: > > > > 0. Use Debian > > 1. Signup for debian-community.org, that is, create your own wiki > > page, where you track your contributions > > > > I am not sure that individual wiki pages are the best way to do this. > You probably need to maintain this information centrally. I would rather have it automagically. Don't need/want another page to maintain. > > 2. If you have contributed, you can get on planet.CC.d-c.org > > > > I don't really understand what you mean by "planet". > > > 3. If you have contributed more, you can get an email address. > > > > I don't quite see the advantage of this. You really need an existing > email address when joining in order to authenticate. A new email > address would have to be set up with email forwarding to the existing > email address. I suppose that it would be useful for communiction > direct from the website. Perhaps for someone who did not want to > publish their existing address because of email harvesting. I already have 4 email addresses. Maybe only for forwarding purposes. From my point of view, I would like to help improve/write new documentation for Debian, aimed specifically at new (to computers/linux/debian) users. Also, after giving it a lot of thought I think we should try not to split efforts. NewbieDoc is a good initiative, but AFAIU didn't get too far because of lack of contributors. And the hosting is also not top-notch. Debian-community has the chance to unify non-developer efforts, which I think is a Good Thing. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
