On Wednesday, October 08, 2014 06:29:06 PM Donald Chandonnet wrote: > To the Kubuntu Documentation Team: > (not sure that the above email address is correct, but it came from the > Kubuntu documentation) > Oct. 8, 2014 > > My fellow Kubuntu users. > Greetings from Canada. I am a relatively new user to Kubuntu, and fell in > love with Kubuntu 12.04 it when I retired from my IT job a few years ago. > I decided to no longer use Windows at that time and converted myself to > Kubuntu. > > It's been a bumpy road, and I made lots of mistakes, broke various versions > of Kubuntu, reloaded them, upgraded my hardware to a 64-bit cpu and went > through another > bumpy road with various versions of Kubuntu, until now where I find myself: > at version 14.04 --until it breaks. <smile> > > Kubuntu is a wonderful computer system, but what lacks is relevant > documentation and help. > > > What I see as needed to move the Kubuntu System forward is a much better > documentation system --a wiki of sorts like Wikipedia. > > > A place where anyone can post information under a hierarchy of menu items, > and where experts can simply correct what is posted if it is a bit "off the > mark." People could simply ask a question on a discussion page (just like > wikipedia) and experts could add the answer to the page in question. > > > the Kubuntuguide site was a great start > <http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Kubuntuguide> to such an idea, but the idea > never took off because it's too slow and cumbersome to make changes. On > Wikipedia, changes are seen as soon as they are made. > > - registered users on Kubuntuguide would offer changes, and they would > be reviewed by someone, who in turn would edit your work. Changes would > take a long time to get through, and before one version of Kubuntu docs > was completed, the developers had abandoned it and gone to a new version. - > In addition, most Kubuntu users didn't use the site, but rather used the > Ubuntu resources, and the developers and document writers also where not > there improving the information. > - It was located on a university site somewhere in Europe, but did not > have the support of the core developers. I see that a copy has moved > under the Ubuntu umbrella, but it has not changed much since I first saw > the site in Europe. > > I'm sure there are lots of people who would like to help, but it needs to > be a system that is easy to use and where one sees the impact of their work > as soon as it is done. That is one of the reasons Wikipedia is such a > success. > > > I would love to help in the documentation area, but having to learn to > compile documents so that they are included somewhere inside the > installation iso of a new version seems so old fashion and non-effective to > me. > > > Are you guys/gals working on getting a Wikipedia-like page up to compile > up-to-date Kubuntu documentation? > > > > > Donald > > smile4yourself at yahoo.ca
Hello Donald! We have https://userbase.kde.org/Kubuntu Anyone can edit this, so please do! Thanks, Scarlett -- Scarlett Clark Kubuntu & KDE Contributor sgclark at kubuntu.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-doc-english/attachments/20141009/afe91984/attachment.sig>
