thanks for the link. this was before i subscribed to the mailing list. seems like people are either too busy or not interested in changing the web page, since nobody joins in the discussion.
since i do not have the permission and the knowledge to change the structure of gnewsense.org, i am thinking about creating my own small gnewsense howtos page. this should be a page for the absolute beginner, including only installation manuals and such, not more. i assume that i have the permission to use the contents of gnewsense.org, which is under GFDL ? ben On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Sam Geeraerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ben wrote: >> >> hello, >> >> in the forum some people (including me) were off the opinion that the >> gNS website is not really well-structured. there are two points which i >> want to mention (which were the initial reason for me to think about >> this): >> >> (1) the documentation page >> http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Documentation/Documentation >> is way too difficult to reach, considered the fact that it carries >> crucial info like the installation manual >> >> (2) while the builder is very important, people who visit the web site >> will mainly be interested in gNS and not in the builder. >> (if this assumption is not right, please excuse me) >> for those the information about the builder is noise which is bound to >> make life difficult for them. >> >> >> i would like to suggest a new structure for the main menu, which would >> be more standard and hence easier and faster to understand. my >> suggestion is far from complete, of course, and is only meant as a >> starting point for discussion. >> >> the main points are answers to the facts i mentioned before: separate >> 'builder' section (also for documentation of the builder) and >> aggregation of all the gNS user information under 'Documentation' >> >> >> >> About gNewSense >> Features >> FAQ >> Software >> Repos >> Releases >> LiveCD >> >> >> >> Software/Download >> (Links to the files) >> >> >> >> Documentation (for gNewSense only) >> Forum >> Manuals & HowTos >> Getting Started >> Recommended Hardware >> How To Help >> etc. >> >> The Builder >> Description >> Documentation >> >> >> greetings >> ben >> > A few months ago Karl had also talked about cleaning things up [1]. He > proposed a slightly different structure. > > [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-users/2008-08/msg00041.html > > _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
