[aklug] Re: A starting point

Mongo love campfire! Bring stone knife to sacrifice newbie?

On Sep 17, 2009, at 6:01 PM, Shane Spencer <shane@bogomip.com> wrote:

> 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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