On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 23:50 +1300, Mark William Darbyshire wrote: > Hello all! > > Thanks for the suggestions, Chris. I've put them all in. > > Some of Chris' suggestions are quite specific topics. If we're going to > be that specific in a few areas we need to specific in quite a few more. > I'm hardly a gNewSense expert, so please pipe up if you have anything > you feel should be included in the documentation. > > Something else quite important: Since gNewSense is fairly unique in its > approach to the four freedoms I think the documentation should not only > walk people through installing and using gNewSense, but also say lots > about the issues of freedom/ethics involved (for example, I've proposed > an article in the Entertainment section introducing free formats and > explaining why proprietary formats should be avoided).
Where posible i think a 3 sentence 'short' about an issue like that with a link to the relevent gnu.org article should suffice. we want to get duplication of work to as close to 0 as posible :) > > Here's the proposed structure in its current state. Remember you can > always view the latest version at > http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Documentation/ and your suggestions on what > else to include or how better to arrange the documentation are always > welcome. > 0. about+why gnewsense > 1. Installing gNewSense 0. system requirements. > 1. Basic installation > 2. Multi boot installation (installing gNewSense alongside > another operating sytem) > 3. Advanced installations > 2. Introduction to the desktop environment > 1. GNOME > 2. KDE Does it make sense to talk about other desktops when these are the only two supported? or is this (3) a 'long term' point? > 3. Other desktop environments > 3. Basic Settings > 1. Users > 2. Networking and Internet The internet is a network. > 1. Dialup > 2. LAN and Broadband > 3. WAN ? what is wan specifically? > 4. Changing the Appearance of gNewSense perhaps this should be 'personalising'. 0. about me > 1. Desktop > 2. Screensavers > 3. Themes i think 5 should meantion some of the games > 5. Advanced I think this should be 6. > 1. Security tools (Bastille & Tiger...) One thing to think about looking into is how we can make use of upstream (ubuntu) doco. i tried before, and building the docs package is a nightmare of complexity (thats before we start trying to remove "unsuitable" bits of docs). kk > > Regards, > Mark. > -- Karl Goetz, Debian user / Ubuntu contributor / gNewSense contributor http://www.kgoetz.id.au _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
