Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu - One Stop Thread
A. J., The one stop Lubuntu thread looks great! I love what you've done with the first three posts and can tell you have put a lot of work in to it. I did have one suggestion that I think will make it even more useful. I posted it to the thread. You can read it here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11419826postcount=116 I took ownership of a forum threadhttp://forum.notebookreview.com/acer/424213-acer-aspire-1410-1810-timeline-11-6-thread.htmla couple of years ago and it became unmanageable within a month. There were so many different discussions going on at once it was hard to keep up with them. I wanted to keep adding the most useful items to the beginning of the thread, but couldn't because there was so much going on. To make matters worse, people would often think they had a problem solved and I would dig through multiple posts trying to add the solution to the top of the thread only to find out it didn't work after all. Now the thread is over 4200 posts long and contains a wealth of useful information but it's nearly impossible to find it. Doing a simple search on something like battery life returns 240 of posts with most of them being useless. It would have been much better if I had been able to post a like to a thread that held that discussion on its own. People would come to the thread late in the game with issues that had already been solved, but it was nearly impossible to find the answers in the thread and the people who could answer them had moved on to the next latest and greatest laptop and were no longer active participants in that thread. I hope this helps. Tim On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Tim Bernhard ohiom...@gmail.com wrote: This should be very useful as long as you take ownership and keep it up to date and until it gets so big it's impossible to navigate. It should prove useful for this release and a new one could be started for subsequent releases. Tim On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Ali Linx amjja...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I think this will be the first Mega Lubuntu Thread on Ubuntu Forum. Since my most activities on the Forum and because I'm trying to put together everything related to Lubuntu in one place, I have decided to create this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1844755 Before, it was just a thread with two guides but now, it has another purpose and aim. Thank you! P.S. Needless to say that your contributions will be highly appreciated ;) -- Best Regards, *A.J amjjawad* My Blog http://amjjawad.wordpress.com | My Wiki Pagehttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad| My Launchpad https://launchpad.net/%7Eamjjawad | My Ubuntu Forum Profilehttp://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=941822 *~ My Actions Speak Louder Than My Words || ** I walk by faith, not by sight **|| Imagination is more important than Knowledge || **Keep It Simple and Short** ~ * ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu - One Stop Thread
Not to sound like I'm pushing or anything, but in regards to that 4.2K posts thread, most of them useless but some of them useful, this is where the Ask Ubuntu format is good, since the accepted answer (in otherwords, the one that is most helpful) will *always* be on top. Just a thought, but the mythbuntu team is migrating from the forums to AU over the next several weeks, no reason why Lubuntu couldn't migrate over as well. Cheers, James Gifford On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Tim Bernhard ohiom...@gmail.com wrote: A. J., The one stop Lubuntu thread looks great! I love what you've done with the first three posts and can tell you have put a lot of work in to it. I did have one suggestion that I think will make it even more useful. I posted it to the thread. You can read it here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11419826postcount=116 I took ownership of a forum thread a couple of years ago and it became unmanageable within a month. There were so many different discussions going on at once it was hard to keep up with them. I wanted to keep adding the most useful items to the beginning of the thread, but couldn't because there was so much going on. To make matters worse, people would often think they had a problem solved and I would dig through multiple posts trying to add the solution to the top of the thread only to find out it didn't work after all. Now the thread is over 4200 posts long and contains a wealth of useful information but it's nearly impossible to find it. Doing a simple search on something like battery life returns 240 of posts with most of them being useless. It would have been much better if I had been able to post a like to a thread that held that discussion on its own. People would come to the thread late in the game with issues that had already been solved, but it was nearly impossible to find the answers in the thread and the people who could answer them had moved on to the next latest and greatest laptop and were no longer active participants in that thread. I hope this helps. Tim On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Tim Bernhard ohiom...@gmail.com wrote: This should be very useful as long as you take ownership and keep it up to date and until it gets so big it's impossible to navigate. It should prove useful for this release and a new one could be started for subsequent releases. Tim On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Ali Linx amjja...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I think this will be the first Mega Lubuntu Thread on Ubuntu Forum. Since my most activities on the Forum and because I'm trying to put together everything related to Lubuntu in one place, I have decided to create this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1844755 Before, it was just a thread with two guides but now, it has another purpose and aim. Thank you! P.S. Needless to say that your contributions will be highly appreciated ;) -- Best Regards, A.J amjjawad My Blog | My Wiki Page | My Launchpad | My Ubuntu Forum Profile ~ My Actions Speak Louder Than My Words || I walk by faith, not by sight || Imagination is more important than Knowledge || Keep It Simple and Short ~ ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu - One Stop Thread
Another great idea! I like it, but the most useful answer to what? There were 100s of topics being discussed in that laptop thread. The one stop thread is still a nice clearing house for all things Lubuntu. Plus some topics might not actually be issues. Those might be better served with a traditional thread. It might be most useful to ask users with issues to start their subtopics in Ask Ubuntu and still use A.J.s thread to list them. No??? On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:16 AM, James Gifford ja...@jamesrgifford.comwrote: Not to sound like I'm pushing or anything, but in regards to that 4.2K posts thread, most of them useless but some of them useful, this is where the Ask Ubuntu format is good, since the accepted answer (in otherwords, the one that is most helpful) will *always* be on top. Just a thought, but the mythbuntu team is migrating from the forums to AU over the next several weeks, no reason why Lubuntu couldn't migrate over as well. Cheers, James Gifford On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Tim Bernhard ohiom...@gmail.com wrote: A. J., The one stop Lubuntu thread looks great! I love what you've done with the first three posts and can tell you have put a lot of work in to it. I did have one suggestion that I think will make it even more useful. I posted it to the thread. You can read it here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11419826postcount=116 I took ownership of a forum thread a couple of years ago and it became unmanageable within a month. There were so many different discussions going on at once it was hard to keep up with them. I wanted to keep adding the most useful items to the beginning of the thread, but couldn't because there was so much going on. To make matters worse, people would often think they had a problem solved and I would dig through multiple posts trying to add the solution to the top of the thread only to find out it didn't work after all. Now the thread is over 4200 posts long and contains a wealth of useful information but it's nearly impossible to find it. Doing a simple search on something like battery life returns 240 of posts with most of them being useless. It would have been much better if I had been able to post a like to a thread that held that discussion on its own. People would come to the thread late in the game with issues that had already been solved, but it was nearly impossible to find the answers in the thread and the people who could answer them had moved on to the next latest and greatest laptop and were no longer active participants in that thread. I hope this helps. Tim On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Tim Bernhard ohiom...@gmail.com wrote: This should be very useful as long as you take ownership and keep it up to date and until it gets so big it's impossible to navigate. It should prove useful for this release and a new one could be started for subsequent releases. Tim On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Ali Linx amjja...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I think this will be the first Mega Lubuntu Thread on Ubuntu Forum. Since my most activities on the Forum and because I'm trying to put together everything related to Lubuntu in one place, I have decided to create this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1844755 Before, it was just a thread with two guides but now, it has another purpose and aim. Thank you! P.S. Needless to say that your contributions will be highly appreciated ;) -- Best Regards, A.J amjjawad My Blog | My Wiki Page | My Launchpad | My Ubuntu Forum Profile ~ My Actions Speak Louder Than My Words || I walk by faith, not by sight || Imagination is more important than Knowledge || Keep It Simple and Short ~ ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu - One Stop Thread
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:16 AM, James Gifford ja...@jamesrgifford.com wrote: Not to sound like I'm pushing or anything, but in regards to that 4.2K posts thread, most of them useless but some of them useful, this is where the Ask Ubuntu format is good, since the accepted answer (in otherwords, the one that is most helpful) will *always* be on top. Just a thought, but the mythbuntu team is migrating from the forums to AU over the next several weeks, no reason why Lubuntu couldn't migrate over as well. Cheers, James Gifford My personal preference is to use each segment to the best of it's ability. The help.u.c/community wiki is useful for howto guides useful to large audiences, the forums are good for one on one assistance, the mailing list usually gets help reasonably quickly, IRC is instant and AU has it's own little place. We have so many ways to contribute information to the general public, I think as long as we choose the best option for the type of information we're trying to request or present then it doesn't really matter *where* it is. -- Regards, Jared Norris JP(Qual) BBehSc(Psych) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu - One Stop Thread
Hi lubunteers, The most important thing is that each part is up to date. The more we diverge into different areas, the more impossible this becomes. I put up to people that our official wiki area should be 1st source and all other areas should point to it. We have already had this discussion wıth lubuntu.net pointıng to out of date stuff and ıt was corrected. There is not a snow flake in hells chance for our small team to keep every area up to date. My proposal was, is and continues to be that we PRIMARILY use our wiki area that includes 'How To' and 'Work Arounds' that are pointed to as. From all the other areas, a link that is updated is silly. People bookmark them. As renewed 'How Tos' / Work arounds are placed onto the forum etc. they must be then put onto the wiki area so that we are 'all singing off the same hymn sheet' Ali is excentlally placed to both look after the forum thread has proven to be good at wiki - So I vote for hım. Having different sets of instructions / advice for people is simply going to lead to the chaos that we see generally when someone 'googles' a problem. I look forward to the replies, and, yes - we need them as to how we are going to have to decide on where we keep the MASTER set of instructions. Regards, Phıll. On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Jared Norris jrnor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:16 AM, James Gifford ja...@jamesrgifford.com wrote: Not to sound like I'm pushing or anything, but in regards to that 4.2K posts thread, most of them useless but some of them useful, this is where the Ask Ubuntu format is good, since the accepted answer (in otherwords, the one that is most helpful) will *always* be on top. Just a thought, but the mythbuntu team is migrating from the forums to AU over the next several weeks, no reason why Lubuntu couldn't migrate over as well. Cheers, James Gifford My personal preference is to use each segment to the best of it's ability. The help.u.c/community wiki is useful for howto guides useful to large audiences, the forums are good for one on one assistance, the mailing list usually gets help reasonably quickly, IRC is instant and AU has it's own little place. We have so many ways to contribute information to the general public, I think as long as we choose the best option for the type of information we're trying to request or present then it doesn't really matter *where* it is. -- Regards, Jared Norris JP(Qual) BBehSc(Psych) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
