On Wed, 2016-04-20 at 10:34 +1000, James Cameron wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 04:20:49PM +0100, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > It seems this conversation has gone a long way from wiki gardening :) > > > > My feeling is that the wiki does not serve _New_to_Sugar_ users > > well. > > +1 > > > Moreover as there is a lack of reliable first steps information, new > > content cannot be written referring back to such. > > > > In general, I believe we need more content with screen shots aimed at > > _New_to_Sugar_ users, but they would be better delivered via slide show > > than scrolling pages. > > > > New to Jekyll, I did not work out how to do a slide show in Jekyll and > > Markdown. Can anyone point to a site that does this successfully? > > > > So I just ploughed on and generated content using Remark[1]. > > > > An alternative Sphinx-based, slide show effort is used in SoaS > > Loader[2], but the product became over-weight in detail. [...] > > Programmers among us have let you down there; you've had to devote > many slides to a very complex install process. > > http://soas-loader.readthedocs.org > > Now, install for Fedora 23 SoaS is just type "sudo liveinst" in > Terminal activity. > I believe 8 GB sticks made by this method are more stable than compressed ones.
> Future, Sugar could have a My Settings control panel which starts > "sudo liveinst" on demand. What would be the protection against wiping the host hard drive? :) It was this concern that has stopped me writing up the liveinst method. Liveinst to a Windows XP PC from the junk yard, is a simple way of introducing Sugar to home or classroom. I am indulging in this conversation a little, thinking / dreaming of a non-technical "How to get Sugar 2016" ... :) Iain > > That way your SoaS Loader would reduce to "click here, click there, > answer questions". > > (Development of this feature would be made faster by respinning SoaS with > updated Sugar packages. +CC linuxmodder from #sugar.) > > > I am submitting, again, my concept of a gallery[3] by way of > > conversation. > > > > Apropos wiki gardening, are there any views on what else is wrong with > > the wiki? > > > > One serious problem is that using "Search" button indicates material > > which may be obsolete but unmarked as such. > > [3] http://inkyfingers.github.io/gallery/ > > > > > > > Once https://github.com/sugarlabs/www-sugarlabs/pull/19 is merged, > > > I'll ask systems@ to create two A records that point the sugarlabs.org > > > domain to 192.30.252.153 and 192.30.252.154, per > > > https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-an-apex-domain/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Cheers > > > Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > > > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > > [email protected] > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
