On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 10:13, Paul W. Frields wrote: > Karsten, > > Since Tammy is currently out, would you like to step in and talk about > projects that are either partly completed or need to be started, and in > what order we might want to tackle them? We have a solid albeit small > crew who, it seems, would probably like to start on some "real" FC > documentation. (At least I hope so... the list has been rather quiet of > late.) I would guess that a big part of that would be making some > decisions on tutorials that are badly needed, rather than waiting for > someone to walk in and suggest them. Ha! You called out to me when _I_ was out of touch. I'm just back from a couple of unexpected weeks out. I'm catching up on the list, and will get back here soon. - Karsten > > Some of my suggestions: > - Installation guide? What's the status currently? Need help? > - Setting up a local mirror for FTP/HTTP/NFS installation and > system-intall-packages (yes, much of the former is in the anaconda docs, > but it needs a more newbie-friendly home) > - Setting up said mirror for provision of updates through up2date (as > opposed to the manual yum/apt stuff) > - General documentation of binutils and other command-line stuff for the > masses (Done already in official RH docs, but we need new, clean-room > versions for GFDL) > > Maybe my "targeting system" is a little off here. My interest lies in > making Fedora Core accessible to Joe Newbie, while other people here > might be particularly averse to that line of thinking. Back when I used > Red Hat Linux, I always pointed people to the official Red Hat guides, > because they were darn good, solid docs. They taught one to take > advantage of the many nice ease-of-use facilities available in the > distro, while still encouraging digging underneath if one were so > inclined. > > I want people starting to use Fedora Core to have some of the same > advantages I feel I had using Red Hat Linux, without having to resort to > forking out a lot of cash to get a book that in large part goes over the > same type of material. > > If anyone thinks I am way off base, say so. (You can't scare me, I'm a > parent!) :-D > > -- > Paul W. Frields, RHCE -- Karsten Wade, RHCE, Tech Writer this .signature subject to random changes http://people.redhat.com/kwade/ gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41
