On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 23:27 +0300, John Babich wrote:
Lurkers of the FOSS world, unite!
Yes. This list is currently 578 members. I believe that some of the
audience here are folks from various FLOSS projects.
With a well considered proposal, we can attract attention. Articles in
LWN and Red Hat Magazine, attention via Fedora Weekly News (FWN) and
fedora-announce-list. Talk it up in fedora-ambassadors and f-marketing,
get people representing the ideas (with a nice presentation?) at FLOSS
conferences around the world. So, the potential is there, the machinery
to move an idea to reality is there.
As for the rest of your reply, I am mulling over your response. My
initial
response is definitely to give more support to the Linux Documentation
Project. This is another FOSS project to which I owe a great debt.
We may take another multi-prong approach, the key is to find a way to
make the UI common. One Wiki to rule them all, with XML output to
unbind them, and SCM access to all.
Multi-prong:
* man/info pages and /usr/share/doc/*
* short content common to all distros (LDP)
* package specific guide content (how to use Evolution or Kmail, GNOME
or KDE common, all the way up to using Apache and SELinux
* Fedora-specific layers (i.e., project customization layer)
I also like the Summit concept. I hope to map out a fairly clear spec
on
the FOSS toolchain. This entitles starting from a clear grasp of what is
available right now.
Should you make a specific task we can track here? This is for various
projects going on within the overall documentation program as run by the
FDSCo (FD Steering Committee):
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/SteeringCommittee/TaskSchedule
- Karsten
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