Challenge/Declaration - To all DebainEdu/Skolelinux users: The month
after release is documantation month. (feb. 8 - march 8.)
I challenge every member of the community to step up and pitch in.
Edit existing documentation and improving it, and adding new
documentation, so we can have a shining example of user-friendly help.
Even the newbiest of newbs can help by simply pointing out what they'd
like to see, or even starting to write it themselves (it's a wiki, so
others can correct any mistakes you make, don't be affraid to write
english, most of us are not native english speakers). Our experienced
users and admins could present usefull tools for administration, or
cool features that could be implemented.
If the workload is spread evenly around , then it will take no time to
document a lot of features i DebianEdu/Skolelinux. Good and easy
understandable documentation is one of the most important things when
it comes to spread the use of our fantastic distro more. After all
DebianEdu/Skolelinux is the most important Linux distro when it comes
to introduce Linux and free software in an early age.
Here are some ideas:
- Walk a beginner through network setup
- Walk a begginer through the use of an essential program
- The most important and usefull linux commands
- How to set up a firewall
- How to play videos, dvd, mp3, streams, sound...
- The perfect setup
- Make a video tutorial
- How to do testing (check list?)
- Hardware choices
- HowTo set up an external backup pc
- Update the wishlist at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Wishlist
- Get started with Moodle in DebainEdu
- Cool educational apps
- Installing and configuring printers
- Samba
- Troubleshooting guides
- Links and recomandations to other great guides that are relevant for
DebianEdu
- Eye candy
- Connect your DebianEdu/skolelinux blog to http://planet.skolelinux.org
and tell us about the cool stuff you do with DebianEdu.
To consider the value of documentation, you only need to look at the
projects where it is scant or non-existent. The projects also become
scant and non-existent as people find that setup, install and
operation are beyond the native intuitiveness of the interface and
move onto something more user-friendly - something with documentation.
The value of an application is often measured by it's documentation.
We have a lot of good documentation, and our manual are becoming
better and better every day. But in my oppinion it is almost
impossible to get enough :)
So let us put our efforts together to make our documentation even better.
Ole-Anders Andreassen