Tip a day

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

Someone suggested earlier in fedora-devel list that we have a Fedora
welcome screen on first login for new users to guide them. One of the
usual inclusions in such things is a tip a day feature like those KDE
has for example. 

We might be able to expand the scope of this if we have a place to
submit tips and then collect, review and edit them and then display the
published ones in the website with a different tip everyday. The best
ones can be included later within the distribution if we have a welcome
screen feature in a future release. Comments?

Rahul

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 21:23 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  Someone suggested earlier in fedora-devel list that we have a Fedora
>  welcome screen on first login for new users to guide them. One of the
>  usual inclusions in such things is a tip a day feature like those KDE
>  has for example. 
>  
>  We might be able to expand the scope of this if we have a place to
>  submit tips and then collect, review and edit them and then display the
>  published ones in the website with a different tip everyday. The best
>  ones can be included later within the distribution if we have a welcome
>  screen feature in a future release. Comments? 
I think this is a *FANTASTIC* idea.  If you can find someone to write
the code -- probably no more than a lightweight Python app -- I'm sure
we would be interested in doing editorial.  (And I know people around
here could offer tips as well.)  Given that FC6 is likely to include
additional repo support directly in Anaconda, including Fedora Extras,
there doesn't seem to be any reason this type of application couldn't
live there.  Maybe there's justification for a new Extras comps group,
or something to make this and other helpful bits prominent in the
installer.

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[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

This sounds like a brilliant idea to me.

Even fifty tips is a great start.

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On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

>  Hi
>  
>  Someone suggested earlier in fedora-devel list that we have a Fedora
>  welcome screen on first login for new users to guide them. One of the
>  usual inclusions in such things is a tip a day feature like those KDE
>  has for example. 
>  
>  We might be able to expand the scope of this if we have a place to
>  submit tips and then collect, review and edit them and then display the
>  published ones in the website with a different tip everyday. The best
>  ones can be included later within the distribution if we have a welcome
>  screen feature in a future release. Comments?
>  
>  Rahul
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[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 21:23 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  Someone suggested earlier in fedora-devel list that we have a Fedora
>  welcome screen on first login for new users to guide them. One of the
>  usual inclusions in such things is a tip a day feature like those KDE
>  has for example. 
>  
>  We might be able to expand the scope of this if we have a place to
>  submit tips and then collect, review and edit them and then display the
>  published ones in the website with a different tip everyday. The best
>  ones can be included later within the distribution if we have a welcome
>  screen feature in a future release. Comments? 
For that matter, the Wiki has the [[RandomQuote]] function which might
be useful for this purpose.  If we also used the [[Include]] function,
this could be done on either the front page or another appropriate page
on the wiki, and/or we could use the wiki page as a retrievable target
for the said app in the distro, using GtkHtml etc. to render the
content... too... many... possibilities...

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[Fajar Priyanto]

On Thursday 30 March 2006 10:53 pm, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  Hi
>
>  Someone suggested earlier in fedora-devel list that we have a Fedora
>  welcome screen on first login for new users to guide them. One of the
>  usual inclusions in such things is a tip a day feature like those KDE
>  has for example. 
That's great. And not only for new users, but for every login. And there is a 
menu where user can see the whole tips. And, this tips of the day can be 
updated from the internet.
Cooool :)
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[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 23:27 +0700, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
>  On Thursday 30 March 2006 10:53 pm, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  > Hi
>  >
>  > Someone suggested earlier in fedora-devel list that we have a Fedora
>  > welcome screen on first login for new users to guide them. One of the
>  > usual inclusions in such things is a tip a day feature like those KDE
>  > has for example.
>  
>  That's great. And not only for new users, but for every login. And there is a 
>  menu where user can see the whole tips. And, this tips of the day can be 
>  updated from the internet.
>  Cooool :) 
As this might annoy long-time users, if this is done with a desktop app
of some sort, of course there should be a checkbox to turn off the
feature.

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[Rahul Sundaram]

On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 11:34 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>  On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 23:27 +0700, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
>  > On Thursday 30 March 2006 10:53 pm, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  > > Hi
>  > >
>  > > Someone suggested earlier in fedora-devel list that we have a Fedora
>  > > welcome screen on first login for new users to guide them. One of the
>  > > usual inclusions in such things is a tip a day feature like those KDE
>  > > has for example.
>  > 
>  > That's great. And not only for new users, but for every login. And there is a 
>  > menu where user can see the whole tips. And, this tips of the day can be 
>  > updated from the internet.
>  > Cooool :)
>  
>  As this might annoy long-time users, if this is done with a desktop app
>  of some sort, of course there should be a checkbox to turn off the
>  feature. 
Ok. So who is writing the app. Post to -devel list?

Rahul

[Timothy Murphy]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:

>  Someone suggested earlier in fedora-devel list that we have a Fedora
>  welcome screen on first login for new users to guide them. One of the
>  usual inclusions in such things is a tip a day feature like those KDE
>  has for example. 
Sounds like a good idea to me.

A slightly related idea that occurs to me from time to time
is that there might be an extension to the "man" command
that allows examples (of usage of the command in question)
to be appended to the usual man page,
with some wiki-system for collecting examples.

But that is really a different issue...

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[Karsten Wade]

On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 21:23 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  Hi
>  
>  Someone suggested earlier in fedora-devel list that we have a Fedora
>  welcome screen on first login for new users to guide them. One of the
>  usual inclusions in such things is a tip a day feature like those KDE
>  has for example. 
>  
>  We might be able to expand the scope of this if we have a place to
>  submit tips and then collect, review and edit them and then display the
>  published ones in the website with a different tip everyday. The best
>  ones can be included later within the distribution if we have a welcome
>  screen feature in a future release. Comments? 
Lovely idea.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/TipADay

Seems like an easy place to write, edit, and gather them.

If anyone is interested, here is a great project idea that could use a
lead writer and some others to help.  You don't need to be an expert,
just enthusiastic and likes reading mailing lists for ideas. ;)

- Karsten
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[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 11:05 -0800, Karsten Wade wrote:
>  On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 21:23 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  > Hi
>  > 
>  > Someone suggested earlier in fedora-devel list that we have a Fedora
>  > welcome screen on first login for new users to guide them. One of the
>  > usual inclusions in such things is a tip a day feature like those KDE
>  > has for example. 
>  > 
>  > We might be able to expand the scope of this if we have a place to
>  > submit tips and then collect, review and edit them and then display the
>  > published ones in the website with a different tip everyday. The best
>  > ones can be included later within the distribution if we have a welcome
>  > screen feature in a future release. Comments?
>  
>  Lovely idea.
>  
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/TipADay
>  
>  Seems like an easy place to write, edit, and gather them. 
There's a mock up for changing the front page at:

  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PaulWFrields/TipTest

Refresh to see the magical revolving content.

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