Fedora-tour idea

[Athanasios E. Samaras]

Maybe a simple list of the new and exciting features sorted by user profile
(desktop users/ engineers/ gamers / mobile devices/etc) and then a link per
chapter so that the user may access more info should he/she desire.
After all, every s/w house needs users as final testers, otherwise it is not
possible to provide any kind of quality or improvements.
Fedora asks for contributors. This is something the community does by
definition, so it is no one to blame, all distros need their users to point
them to some direction. It is normal.
As about the implementation of the "more info" most probably we (from
marketing team) should help the development teams to produce end-user type
material (I bet they already have produced technical documentation) based on
the existing documentation.
Then we can test the content with the help of non-technical persons (I was
thinking about my wife and a couple of friends) based on their interest, and
finally add the required final touches.

Sakis Samaras

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Mel Chua <mel at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 01/07/2010 03:03 AM, Jan Wildeboer wrote:
>
>> Advocatus diaboli would say on slashdot, via Matt Asay: "See, Red Hat
>> wants
>> to abuse poor little users for free testing" what would you counter to sth
>> like that?
>>
>> FTR - I love the idea, but I want it to be perfect ;-)
>>
>> Jan
>>
>
> Ooo. Thanks, Jan - we need more advocatus diaboli on this list. ;)
>
> It's an opt-in activity in the "do you want to learn how to contribute"
> section of fedora-tour; you won't have to do this - or even see it - if
> you're not interested. Basically, a "Learn More!" wizard instead of <a
> href="http://link.org">learn more!</a>.
>
> Alternatively: Think of it as an included lesson people can choose to
> deploy if they're curious about how open source communities work together,
> and how they can begin contributing to that ecosystem if they take a look
> and decide they're interested.
>
> I imagine there would be a "are you interested in learning about $foo?"
> click, and then a "yes, I'd like to contribute in this way!" click; by the
> time they get to the "hello, I am a QA contributor" part, they'll know full
> well that's what they're doing, that they want to do it, and that they have
> a choice that will not disadvantage them in any way if they don't pick it.
>
> (Would this work as a counter? What holes are there in it?)
>
> --Mel
>
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