Στις 21-09-2007, ημέρα Παρ, και ώρα 03:43 +0500, ο/η Mustafa Qasim έγραψε: > Hello! > I was wondering that how much it would be beneficial to > develop interactive flash/video guides instead of long text guides for > certain purposes like teaching newbie how to use the tools required by > a project and let him feel comfortable with the Fedora Project > environment in a short time so, he can start the work(that is actually > needed) instead of wasting his first few days asking how to create > account, where to create the keys and bla bla bla. > > Do you think it can be helpful for home users for whom CVS and GPG > Keys etc are alien? +1, definitely. Screencasts are useful, and that's proved by their popularity. It would be great if we had screencasts for some "complex" docs tasks -- I'm about to create one for transifex. It's definitely better than nothing, having in mind what Paul said: they're more or less a one-off thing with zero maintenance. Also, maybe to show off of a default Fedora desktop, a standard anaconda installation, package management etc. Some people want to see how it will look like, and don't care that much about learning something or being able to copy-paste for it. Some people think that yum is still awfully slow for example, or that there are things that can't be done compared to apt. A screencast-showoff of this would be great IMO. In other words, screencasts won't substitute proper documentation. And heck, if a screencast is important enough for docs purposes, it could be accompanied by a wiki page with full details, references etc. In terms of localization, if we have the transcript for every screencast, we could even localize it with subtitles in sub/srt files. -d > Kindly share your thought. Please reply with > +1 - If you think yes > -1 - If you think not > > further suggestions/comments are more then welcomed. > > -- > Mustafa Qasim > Lahore, Pakistan > Cell: 0321-6614972 > URL: http://www.mustu.info > > Registered Linux User# 441709. > -- > fedora-docs-list mailing list > fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list -- Dimitris Glezos Jabber ID: glezos@xxxxxxxxxx, GPG: 0xA5A04C3B http://dimitris.glezos.com/ "He who gives up functionality for ease of use loses both and deserves neither." (Anonymous) -- -- fedora-docs-list mailing list fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
