From: Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com> Reply-To: hal@thresholddigital.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org CC: "Michael Fothergill" <mikef20000@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: software for making a web site...... Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:57:36 -0500 On Monday 15 January 2007 17:31, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I have been wondering about making a web site where I could offer > people help installing Fedora on their PCs..... There are MANY sites to help people installing any distro of Linux on their computers. While this is an admirable idea, consider the amount of effort it would take to create a web site, host it, and maintain it. Wouldn't it be more effective to use that effort to directly help others in forums and on mailing lists and on other sites that already do this?
That is not quite what I meant. Contributing to these sites is helpful but it is not quite what I had in mind. When I first installed Linux o a PC, it was Red Hat 6.2 and I had telephone support from a Red Hat engineer. This was a great help at the time.
What I am interested to do (in theory) is to offer telephone consultancy in the same way, but at a lower cost than e.g. Red Hat.
I would use a phone line that charges the fee......So it would not be free. But based on my experience for people new to Linux it would be helpful in combination with getting help from user groups and web sites.
When I got the telephone support it was incredibly effective. The guy anticipated every aspect of the installation and it went like a breeze.
For a complete newbie it would be the equivalent of several hours and even days of submitting queries on user groups and reading manuals.....
The idea would be to "jump start" them in a fair way. Comments appreciated. Regards Michael Fothergill
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