-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 18 November 2013 15:05:43 Eric H. Christensen wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:48:21AM -0500, Zachary Oglesby wrote: > > ... The training at FUDCon was a great idea, > > but that obviously will not scale. > > Yeah, it won't scale *but* I'm hoping to do some training videos that will > introduce people to the core tools and what's happening so they can > understand how things should work. Videos *can* scale but only if they are > short and easy to understand. I'm certainly in favour of "how-to" videos, but they have many limitations. We should consider the plight of those for whom watching or understanding audio- visual content over the Web is impractical. You'd probably agree that training videos would only be part of a multi-faceted approach. In fact, you would probably agree that "additional training" is itself only part of a multi- faceted approach to helping new contributors. One big advantage of these videos is that you'll be able to produce them very quickly, and that they'll be a big help for contributors who wish to involve themselves with our current processes. At the same time, we should take advantage of the general climate of productive change to consider medium- and long-term strategies to improve our processes and the documents we produce. The fact there are so many subscribers to the Docs list who don't regularly participate (like myself), and so many potential contributors who introduce themselves but never contribute, suggests there is a problem. But what is the problem? Again, I suggest we compile "problems" and "currently-good things" from sources far and wide, especially collaborating across distributions. I will gladly lead these efforts, but only if there's an audience waiting to read what I find. Christopher -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJSipvfAAoJEAWCcTQ3FNFMDU4P/0voWDSfcqjP47ITy0TueTWh cxwIViz4XiRmGeguE5AdMk0ksN1PqAR8ZRfILcQGdJXvauvu18y8WCYtjfer7emR Aum0QsQGHuWcRC5SKuDPMeic8ykZ61LfiVnlVEQ5eYh1lzwTATDuwvvEJRcWEtSr AfgYEaO7W81opwUc10Y4e+LzrIixUsPEaMbEKp5yWgQIX/R35PFWERR007IZcHBq XjJZ6RuWUZ2Y7GUwj9FJAzLfOhpH8Wr7vb8JLPVhEnESjbXTeAcM+9zRpojs2puF vnqBjoAk5BASCabkmfMvTW4wuTS6r0XlwxTY7E53CzPs1lIT4qNedFOEYY12wOyt 3i/ooZ55yuTNdgLlteJ9B9ujvT6kylTH94+WHgXSUg9yivv3hKOgo4W/pJcDhT43 UflIsi+UDC1306Z5RRdwQF+PIB97vfOutpvsSFwMSSBQkUQdI/5XLsPW9MZxQ2Ar A9py9oI3huKPVv9+rEnUtdMp2J7NVyNv0gUo0TNf+mYY0h78AQrVQiuI7jlS0fGL MUvL0Zv8M7RuOglZfIMlizqjOOjSxGVS3M8zPGcxkxN2x5EDCd28XmK5wvGqFo3h GT/zee5e9bWdpCn0cwSVYBEGBxVg2ftaPK3ZJsPZP+w/D2x8cQXSgNV0Ylu6HrZV hqUPTQUQpySiah50SReY =Uc8G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
