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[Scarlett Clark]

On Wednesday, October 08, 2014 06:29:06 PM Donald Chandonnet wrote:
> To the Kubuntu Documentation Team:
> (not sure that the above email address is correct, but it came from the
> Kubuntu documentation)
> Oct. 8, 2014
> 
> My fellow Kubuntu users.
> Greetings from Canada. I am a relatively new user to Kubuntu, and fell in
> love with Kubuntu  12.04  it when I retired from my IT job a few years ago.
> I decided to no longer use Windows at that time and converted myself to
> Kubuntu.
> 
> It's been a bumpy road, and I made lots of mistakes, broke various versions
> of Kubuntu, reloaded them, upgraded my hardware to a 64-bit cpu and went
> through another
> bumpy road with various versions of Kubuntu, until now where I find myself:
> at version 14.04 --until it breaks. <smile>
> 
> Kubuntu is a wonderful computer system, but what lacks is relevant
> documentation and help.
> 
> 
> What I see as needed to move the Kubuntu System forward is a much better
> documentation system --a wiki of sorts like Wikipedia.
> 
> 
> A place where anyone can post information under a hierarchy of menu items,
> and where experts can simply correct what is posted if it is a bit "off the
> mark." People could simply ask a question on a discussion page  (just like
> wikipedia) and experts could add the answer to the page in question.
> 
> 
> the Kubuntuguide site was a great start
> <http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Kubuntuguide> to such an idea, but the idea
> never took off because it's too slow and cumbersome to make changes. On
> Wikipedia, changes are seen as soon as they are made.
> 
>    - registered users on Kubuntuguide would offer changes, and they would
>    be reviewed by someone, who in turn would edit your work. Changes would
>    take a long time to get through, and before one version of Kubuntu docs
> was completed, the developers had abandoned it and gone to a new version. -
> In addition, most Kubuntu users didn't use the site, but rather used the
> Ubuntu resources, and the developers and document writers also where not
> there improving the information.
>    - It was located on a university site somewhere in Europe, but did not
>    have the support of the core developers. I see that a copy has moved
> under the Ubuntu umbrella, but it has not changed much since I first saw
> the site in Europe.
> 
> I'm sure there are lots of people who would like to help, but it needs to
> be a system that is easy to use and where one sees the impact of their work
> as soon as it is done. That is one of the reasons Wikipedia is such a
> success.
> 
> 
> I would love to help in the documentation area, but having to learn to
> compile documents so that they are included somewhere inside the
> installation iso of a new version seems so old fashion and non-effective to
> me.
> 
> 
> Are you guys/gals working on getting a Wikipedia-like page up to compile
> up-to-date Kubuntu documentation?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Donald
> 
> smile4yourself at yahoo.ca

Hello Donald!

 We have https://userbase.kde.org/Kubuntu
 Anyone can edit this, so please do! 
Thanks,
Scarlett

-- 
Scarlett Clark
Kubuntu & KDE Contributor
sgclark at kubuntu.org
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