Re: [Sugar-devel] Flossmanuals?

2009-06-27 Thread Bastien
Bastien writes: > (And I agree that the *current* content of the wikis are not usable for > beginners... but it doesn't anyone from putting such beginner-oriented > content on it, isn't it?) Oops: s/doesn't anyone/doesn't prevent anyone/ ... ^^^ -- Bastien _

Re: [Sugar-devel] Flossmanuals?

2009-06-27 Thread Bastien
Hi Edward, Edward Cherlin writes: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Bastien wrote: >> I'm a bit skeptical about using flossmanuals for co-writing and >> translating Sugar's documentation. >> >> What are the real benefits over a simple wiki? > > The documentation on the OLPC and SugarLabs Wikis

Re: [Sugar-devel] Flossmanuals?

2009-06-26 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Bastien wrote: > I'm a bit skeptical about using flossmanuals for co-writing and > translating Sugar's documentation. > > What are the real benefits over a simple wiki? The documentation on the OLPC and SugarLabs Wikis is barely usable for experts, severely incompl

Re: [Sugar-devel] Flossmanuals?

2009-06-26 Thread Bastien
Hi David, Luke and all, David Farning writes: > Have you pinged the FM mailing list at > http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/discuss-flossmanuals.net . > They are usually pretty helpful. Lionel did, they replied but couldn't solve this encoding issue. > The biggest reason for leaning on

Re: [Sugar-devel] Flossmanuals?

2009-06-26 Thread David Farning
Have you pinged the FM mailing list at http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/discuss-flossmanuals.net . They are usually pretty helpful. The biggest reason for leaning on FM is that they have a good reputation for creating usable end user documentation. Traditionally, documentation is one of

Re: [Sugar-devel] Flossmanuals?

2009-06-26 Thread Bastien
Luke Faraone writes: > Some points: > > • It's what we use already. ("If it ain't broke, don't fix it") I think it is broken for some purposes. We couldn't have a decent PDF for the french translation because of encoding issues. Is anyone using flossmanuals to translate Sugar documentation

Re: [Sugar-devel] Flossmanuals?

2009-06-26 Thread Luke Faraone
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:35, Bastien wrote: > I'm a bit skeptical about using flossmanuals for co-writing and > translating Sugar's documentation. > > What are the real benefits over a simple wiki? Some points: - It's what we use already. ("If it ain't broke, don't fix it") - It suppor

[Sugar-devel] Flossmanuals?

2009-06-26 Thread Bastien
I'm a bit skeptical about using flossmanuals for co-writing and translating Sugar's documentation. What are the real benefits over a simple wiki? -- Bastien ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listin