Here's a few existing guides for your Fedora Music documentation project:
IMHO, rather than a one-person authored guide, what might end up better standing the test of time: setup and cultivate the structure of a "living" wiki-based site for the purpose of documenting Fedora audio/video tools&hardware -- in a cohesive, up-to-date, and fedora-relevant fashion. I recommend the LGPL'd platform XWiki as it's far more flexible/modern/secure than most "first generation wikis".. (some web-apps I'm doing using http://xwiki.org and http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/ on F12: http://nielsmayer.com/ts-episode-timeline.png http://nielsmayer.com/ts-episode-evnt-anls.png http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Exhibit/NPRpods3 ). The latest version of XWiki has awesome wysiwyg AJAX editor, as well as openoffice-based document importer -- this will open up authorship to those that might not have time/patience to contribute through the existing fedoraproject wiki.
The other thing that would be very helpful ( oh Redhat! :-) ) would be an accompanying "live-cd" (actually 1-2 DVD(s) or USB thumbdrive) that any windows user could plug into their box and get a solid, realtime-enabled 64 bit (hardware permitting) media-editing && production workstation out of their existing windows box -- while only touching a single directory in their existing windows install. It would be a best-of-breed amalgamation of the CCRMA rt-kernel and tools from fedora and rpmfusion repositories -- all on one DVD: the goal of the site would be to document the DVD; the goal of the DVD would be to provide a working implementation of the site. There needs to be some concerted "muscle" to implement http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraStudio .... [[ for legality puporposes, it would need to automatically download/install and shadow-link files off the net from rpmfusion nonfree distros so that crucial/showstopper-if-missing media formats (e.g. mp3) are supported "at the click of a button" (and perhaps dismissal of a legal disclaimer :-) ). ]]
-- Niels
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