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Re: documentation for novice and newbies



On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 02:49:00PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:24:35PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:14:43 -0500
> > Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
>  
> > > So what about novicedoc as a project title?
> > > 
> > > I don't know what all questions alioth asks when one registers a
> > > project, but for a short description:
> > > 
> > > 	Novicedoc: documentation for novices (people with no computer
> > > 	experience) and newbies (computer people new to linux and/or
> > > 	debian)....

Novicedoc is a much better name than newbiedoc.
Now if we could find another word for newbie ... "newbie" sounds 
undignified, and, more to the point, pejorative.
Let's not start by insulting our intended audience.

-- hendrik



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