[aklug] Re: A starting point

What about everybody promises to meet around a bonfire in a circle and
pinkie swearing to update other already established and well known
wiki and documentation projects that are hosted by and centered around
the official project or an official documentation project? My intent
on starting my own documentation project at madmanguides.com was to go
over very specialized processes since I know creating very general
documentation in such a diverse realm is insanely difficult and often
resolves into arguable curriculum.

I like the idea of referencing instead of documenting something that
already has adequite information associated with it, it's already out
there and may need fine tuning. Having a wiki or content management
system that references permalinks to already existing documentation,
allowing for comments of course, would work out nicely as a starting
point when newbs enter into the fold or a recurring topic needs
referenced. Moving data into a wiki from other wikis (essentially
what re-documenting the same boring old topic does) more or less
requires constant attention to updates on the original process.
There's an interesting idea right there - differential editing of
mutable resources. When a remote web site updates a page a resource
mirror notices and enters the new data into a moderation queue. It
would be interesting to maintain documentation that can be patched by
the original author unintentionally.

Anyways. DRY is a good concept that extends far beyond software
development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_repeat_yourself

- Shane

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:45 PM, barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net> wrote:
> To sort of muck out what Jon has been saying to go with Damien's
> intent, I ran across this:
>
> http://www.howtoforge.org/the-perfect-desktop-ubuntu-9.04
>
> Although I am currently using Ubuntu and liking it, it doesn't have to
> be Ubuntu.
>
> What I like about this article is the list of applications that the
> person is looking to use.
>
> One thing I'd do though is get rid of some of the duplicate applications.
>
> Also I heard that pidgin is getting replaced by some other
> application....but it has been popular as of late.
>
> If we can mostly agree on packages we'd like to see...maybe we can
> move forward some.
>
> Mike B.
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