On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 11:34 +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: > Hi, > > Your idea has its points, but I'm not sure if classes aren't just a > work-around > for lacking documentation in general. Of course, IRC is a lot more > interactive > than a tutorial, but reading IRC logs is really not the best method to lern > something about a certain topic, so documentation would be needed anyway, > except > for those who are actually there. But then, why not just give them the > documentation right away with a "Questions/Feedback to [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > footer? I > think this is a far more efficient way to let people educate themselves. So > basically, the documentation shouldn't be the primary location to get > information.
I think that the best thing to do would be to put up a web page with some documentation or a topic outline and then schedule a Q&A on IRC and maybe in the forums too. There are a lot of topics that aren't documented that well. What we really need is to find what topics people are interested in learning more about. > Other than that, i like your idea, and surely won't stop you :) > > Regards, > > -- > Simon Stelling > Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tres Melton IRC & Gentoo: RiverRat -- [email protected] mailing list
