On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 05:33:32PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >I tend to be both a decent writer and a pretty good editor (if I say > >so myself), but time-wise am probably in a better position to edit > >stuff and flesh it out than I am to write new material, at this > >point. > > > That's good because I'm a pretty bad writer, I have good ideas but I > can't articulate them particularly well. An editor is what I'd really > need ;-) > >I also think the place to start is with an installation guide for > >dummies. And be realistic about it -- focus on i386 and moderately > >aged equipment. 1) it is the mostly likely platform, 2) kernel support > >is pretty good for hardware. > > > > > That would probably be a good idea, and I agree that most people would > be using i386 but that isn't the hard part; Getting wireless set up is > usually a pain, and documentation there would probably be especially > hard. > >What is the plan? A package (not good as you can't get the package > >without installing), a web-doc? maybe a pdf download? > > > A package would be good, since people are bound to be apt-cache > searching for newbie docs (I know I tried it when I first started on > Ubuntu). Obviously we would have a plain text and HTML version for a > package and web-doc. > > I myself don't know how to make pdf files, so if someone with a bit more > experience in that field joins up then we can definitely accomplish a > pdf version. many editors will export to pdf. Also somehow on my system I've got a "pdf printer". I think its part of cups, but whatever. > > So far you're the only person to email me, so we'll see how the turnout > is; If it comes down to it I'll probably write it myself (With your help > editing, of course), but I can't promise that it would be worked on too > often ;P > putting this back on the list. A
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