feedback on enterprise.kde.org

[Aaron Seigo]

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On February 11, 2004 13:36, Big Biff wrote:
> I'm with you. Personally I'd like to see an area where there's
> technical "whitepapers". Just like Aarons above!

thanks for the kind words =) the best way to see that this happens is to 
arrange for incentives; for instance, i got paid to write the article you are 
referring to, and it took me probably ~30 hours of effort when all was said 
and done. writing is not exactly "fun", nor is it easy ... i'll end up 
writing a few more articles this year for my own interest, but it would be 
very nice to find a way to make it easy to justify the time it takes to do 
so.

one of my personal "some day" projects (you know, after i've done hacking all 
the code and drinking all the beer ;) is to look into setting up a 
subscription-supported set of mini-books on KDE (and everything that comes 
along with it). the idea would be to write a series of manuals that range 
from 50-150 pages in length and cover specific aspects of KDE: basic desktop 
usage (aka KDE 101), Konqueror, Groupware, Multimedia, Printing, Central 
Administration, CD Burning ....... etc, etc, etc ...

this would have several nice effects:

 o give KDE good documentation
 o create publicity for KDE
 o provide some sources of income for people in the project, or even the 
project itself.
 o allow people to collect information on the parts of KDE they are interested 
in, while making it easy to replace individual parts of the documentation as 
KDE evolves (this is the biggest problem with traditional books and open 
source: open source moves too quickly, and large books are just too static)


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Aaron J. Seigo
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