On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 07:52 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote: > > That would mean getting Max, to agree to his faq becoming merged at the > > main site, and of less importance > > > > Boy were there troubles I remember when trying to sort this out at the > > OpenOffice.org project (I used to be the unofficial FAQ maintainer > > too...) There were just sadly about three other competing ideas when the > > merger came and no one seemed to agree on anything useful it'd seem > > This is my biggest personal concern. I don't want our Big Fedora Ax to > takeover the good work done by others. I don't see a need to compete in > a doc niche unless there is a need. Such as the existing docs are worth > replacing. :) Personally, I think let's use community resources where possible. FedoraForum is a good example... > > > ignore > > > it and let it continue as it is. any other ideas? > > > > If Max is happy with what he does, I say lets point to it. We should > > decentralise as much as possible (we can have a faq on our site, but we > > should allow for unofficial faqs) > > > > Now back to ubuntuguide. The step-by-step guide _really_ does help new > > users to Fedora (well, Ubuntu in that case). If someone's interested, > > something like that should happen with the faq > > > > BTW, I'm not sure if Max read's this list, but at some stage someone on > > the Steering Committee (docs) should contact him > > Good idea, we want the connection done properly. However, if there is > anyone who wants to be the writer in charge of such a derivation, that > would be a Good Think to Know. I don't want to start such discussions > without someone committed to doing the work we agree upon. Maybe even asking Max to be the maintainer, it might be a lot better IIRC, he has a team already... > I don't think we can possibly replace fedorafaq.org. I know we don't > want to. I would be concerned that our derivation would draw people > from fedorafaq.org that need to be there instead. It would be awkward > to have a huge "Tip" at the start of our FAQ that then vaguely suggests > searching somewhere else for answers if you can't find them here. > Especially if our FAQ became highly ranked. Exactly. We don't want to replace it, because we can't replace it fully. So maybe just a pointer that there are _other community resources_ out there, and mention some possibly useful google searches We let page rank do the rest for us ;-) -- Colin Charles, byte@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bytebot.net/ "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi
