I think we won't be reinventing any wheels here. We would be merely collating/distilling them data spread across a lot of other wikis/sites/forums to be locally _available_ and _accessible_ for the poor folks who don't 1) have discovered google or forums just yet; 2) know how to look for the information on their own; or 3) have no time to do the dirty work.
For example: I bought an epson c51 a few months ago. No info whatsoever was there on the internet on how to make it work in linux. After googling for some other leads, I got it working nicely. Since the aim is to evangelize f/oss, this is a nice direction. On the plus side: some people would be willing to pay other people to make them gadgets work (or figure how to). This can become revenue for plug or some other tech who is registered on plug's list of "experts". On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 08:02 +0800, Cocoy wrote: > On Nov 29, 2007 5:29 AM, Dax Solomon Umaming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > So how do we go about this? Maybe a wiki? > > how many wikis are there already of the various which works and which > doesn't? wouldn't this be like re-inventing the wheel, again? > > isn't collating and distilling information what google is for? > > it would be different if you already have the gear and you were > switching to linux, that i can understand a bit more since you're > trying to get your hardware to talk to your OS. and if you did, you'd > at least know /how/ to google to find things out for yourself or have > friends who already /are/ on linux to advice you or you'd be on this > mailing list asking questions. > > People expect different things but "normal" people--- they expect once > linux is installed that it'll work "just as good" as their windows > box. then they find out that hey, "my scanner doesn't work" and when > you answer "umm, because it is not supported", then they're > disappointed and will shun linux. > > Switching to Linux /is/ like having brain surgery. expect once they > wake up from surgery there will be "re-entry" problems. > > seems to me therapy before and after the surgery is appropriate. An > educational campaign/evangelization is more apt and interesting to > spreading which works, what doesn't, what should you expect, how > versatile linux is and why Linux works for you and why you should > switch to Linux than yet another "Wiki" that how many people in a > country that is largely offline will bother to read? > > and second, more than an educational campaign maybe people can > actually volunteer their time to write code to enable those scanners > and printers and devices that don't work... but one can't really put > the blame on the community on that because often the problem is people > have to reverse engineer the code to get devices to work right and > they do this on a volunteer basis... so unless the various > manufacturers come out with sdks or code themselves, it kinda leaves > linux in the desktop in the dark. > > just my two cents. > -- > Cocoy > "People who are really serious about software should make their own > hardware" -- Alan Kay > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph -- Alec Joseph Rivera F S 3 Consulting Inc. http://www.fs3.ph
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