Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis: > On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 03:17:01PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis: >> >> > Yes, I personally hate watching videos and listening to podcasts. I only >> > do it when there is no transcript and I am on a long bus or train ride >> > and can't concentrate on working. I personally found that video to be a >> > very good explanation of the problems addressed by Guix and the >> > solutions offered. As well as the newer video you mentioned. >> > >> > A transcript next to slides [0] can be read in less time than 45 >> > minutes. It can also be skimmed, searched, and anchor-linked. >> >> I agree. If someone volunteers to write transcripts of the available >> videos, we could put them online (but obviously that’s quite a bit of >> work!). >> >> > A number of the ...unusual questions people have asked about Guix >> > demonstrate a near total lack of knowledge about the project's goals and >> > design. We need an overview like that provided by the videos. The manual >> > is more of a "how-to". >> >> The liberating, dependable, and hackable items on the front page link to >> overviews in the manual, notably the “Features” node. Maybe a good >> start would be to improve them? >> >> > I also liked some blog posts by Andy Wingo and Christopher Allan Webber, >> > although those posts don't explain "the whole picture". >> >> Agreed, blog posts like these and those of David and Ricardo are very >> nice, because they show concrete use cases. >> >> They’re also useful for someone knowledgeable about the project because >> they clearly show parts that are confused, badly documented, or that >> somehow fail to address the problems people are having. >> >> I would invite the bloggers among us to do more of these. :-) > > How about linking these blog posts from the site? That could be a good > way to catch the attention of new visitors.
I guess that would amount to some sort of a “Planet Guix” aggregator. In the meantime, it’s probably easier for regular Guix bloggers to have their thing registered on planet.gnu.org. Ludo’.
