On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 12:27 -0500, Dan Smith wrote: > A central page with links in succession to the various pages would be > a huge help in getting started. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Join http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Join/CheckList How would you improve those? I think they address all your items below: > Also an explanation what each account you create does for you. > > In a previous post to this list it was mentioned that many of the > users won't have a technical background. When creating an account the > step of adding the ssh pub key might throw the inexperienced users for > a short loop. First you have to create the key. Easy enough to do > with keygen, then the second thing that might cause them difficulty is > getting to the file. Recent FF versions will not allow you to browse > to the dot dirs. With your pub key living in .ssh that can cause a bit > of a temporary quandry for a new user. Easily solved by either copying > the file up a dir or creating a symbolic link to the dir or file. So > it might be worth mentioning if we do have inexperienced users. Could > save them a bit of aggravation. To the non-technical user it appears > they do not have that dir as by default hidden dirs are not displayed > in the GUI file managers. Firefox's upload dialog won't traverse that > dir even if they can find it. Most inexperienced users won't think of > using the CLI to look. If they do the ls -al won't come to mind > anyway. Then if they can get to the dir the file they need doesn't > exist. Gotta put yourself in their place when they hit those > obstacles. > > Another thing that would help I think would be a page with basic IRC > info. Most people this day an age use IM and many have never heard of > IRC. When I did the MMORPG thing I had to hand hold hundreds of users > while teaching them how to use IRC. Been trying out pIdgin for IRC > and it seems to work pretty well so far. Pigin is installed on just > about everything. So might be a good idea to give a quick half page > rundown on how to set up pidgin for IRC, how to register a nic and how > how to join the fedora-docs channel. IRC is obviously the best choice > for this kind of work. Many folks though will need an introduction too > it. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Join/CheckList Where would you link that in? It does not seem to be on DocsProject/Join nor on DocsProject. So far, I think these aren't FAQ items. The instructions and links are there, or should be. - Karsten -- Karsten Wade ^ Fedora Documentation Project Sr. Developer Relations Mgr. | fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject quaid.fedorapeople.org | gpg key: AD0E0C41 ////////////////////////////////// \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ -- fedora-docs-list mailing list fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
