Hi, On 9/20/05, A. Mani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 20 September 2005 20:02, Sharninder wrote: > > > > 3. Documentation, whitepapers and articles > > > > > > projects > > > > > > > are always needed. > > > > This reminds me that ilug-cal had started an > > inititative of this sort a few years back. I > > remember 'cause I also wrote a small'ish howto for > > that. Is that project still live ? What came off it ? > > > > -- > > Sharninder > > There are lots of material coming up on the net in the linux world. If we need > to do something, then there must be a real need for it. If you take all the > factors there, then it becomes an optimisation problem (solvable usually). We > must in particular pay more attention to local problems. Can you specify some local problem that might require documentation.
>It certainly helps > if people identify issues (on the list) which require more detailed anaysis. Just an idea. One pattern i observed is the interest in testing of various distros by our users. What happens is that sometimes though a solution is posted/suggested it really never get solved because it might not be applicable to that particular distro. There were also times when an user with a probable solution doesn't no how to handle the situation with another distro. Sometimes there are polymorphism of the similar problems. Not to mention, people are sometime even clueless about properly defining their problems. Following on that thought, we could write a collaborative short howto about different popular distros by their respective distro specialist in our list. It should aim to provide a short summary on what kind of audiences it is targeted (newbie, intermedia, moderately experienced, guru), what kind of job it is better suited for doing(desktop, multimedia,server, developmental, educational, enterprise) and why, how basic installation and configuration are handled(installation, init system, X-server configuration, system administration, multimedia setup, web surfing/e-mail), pointers for distro specific documentations. It should help people to select their compatible distro and reduce their downstream problems. Of course, in the mailing list it will help us to encounter some repetitive problems, we could properly organize our thought,time and energy to do some more constructive projects. > Then if some others can, then we can have nice articles, documentations etc > on our site. Then again we might identify such needs through a thread. That > is how it stands. We do have a "Newbie FAQ" project in our web site which doesn't seems to have a lot of activity recently. I am ready to spend at least (2-4 hrs/week) to keep that going and more as it will require. If somebody is already assigned with that project let me have some pointers to start again. We definitely need some more volunteers with more questions and answers. So, who is looking after that project, let me know. > > Now performance evaluation in this kind of scenario must necessarily be > dynamic. It requires quite some effort to quantify it (an interesting topic > if you want to use such things to build examples for your theories, like I > sometimes do) in some sense. It is not quite clear what exactly you meant to say here. Could you provide some detail and/or some examples. > > But what is more important is that such efforts should be persistently > motivated. This thread is definitely a step towards that effort. Lets keep it on. -siddhartha > > > A. Mani > Member, Cal. Math. Soc > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
