Bryen wrote:
Sounds like a great and bold initiative.
Yes indeed. And that's why failure is extremely likely - and therefore I try to set it up so that even failure is success, meaning if we create SOMETHING and have fun it doesn't matter if the somewhat communist-capitalist stuff doesn't work out ;-) Actually, I've been thinking about this for many, many years. I started making concrete plans when I still worked at SuSE (in San Francisco and @Oracle).
I think interactive media has its advantages, but not always. Sometimes text beats the heck out of multimedia.
True again. I myself very much prefer Wikipedia in text and the Mozillazine Knowledgebase over my own content. And yet, there's stuff that even I, lover of manpages, liked seeing as video. My very first steps with the Adobe Creative Suite, some special Photoshop stuff, and last but not least some entertaining tech and game TV (although I myself don't play!!! only watch e.g. while eating dinner, watching news *again* is boring). Actually, some sort of such more entertainment oriented tech TV would be nice too ;-) Imagine such game TV, but with explanations for how to PROGRAM something like Warcraft instead of just playing it :-) And you get a weapon upgrade only if you can explain a HLHSR (hidden line/hiddensurface removal) algorithm ;-)
What are your plans for managing and structuring tutorials? Who sets up the categories, outlines, etc.? If you have free-flow, throw tutorials in willy-nilly, it will fall apart. There has to be hierarchical structure to the plan. Can you give us some ideas?
Let me answer that later, that's the hard-facts question (great! shows you're at least somewhat serious. maybe ;-) ), here it's midnight and the doc's waiting for me tomorrow morning... But basically, I don't actually want to do this now, maybe ever. I would like to start the project and help others. I do what is necessary though. If it's necessary to get involved there, I'll do it. Right now I'm busy for a few more weeks producing SOME content without much structure. My various courses like the one for Actionscript (spontaneous idea after I stumbled over yet another Flash issue - even though there are thousands of pages of docs a few thousand more are missing, a modern programming language is tough because of the huge libraries that come with it) or now SMTP have nothing in common. As I said, I concentrate on Thunderbird related topics because of their link to Letexa. I try to keep the general email courses pretty much email client neutral so that they can be used standalone or in other projects. But I've no plans for NOW to start thinking about e.g. a structure for LPI I content. That's relatively easy to do anyway since you just have to go to LPI and see what's included in the exam... No, I just asked the public for the very first time, now my focus is finding people who might be interested. Nothing focuses more than a good discussion, and I had way too few opportunities lately.
And who are you aiming towards? End-users? Administrative users? Command-line users? KDE/GNOME users?
All ;-) Too broad? Yes and no (I just wrote "know" instead of "no" - I'm getting tired, as I said :-) ). *My* goal with this project is to create a very general "movement" and the infrastructure for it.
Oh, and one other thing. If you're going to have voice-overs, please include captioning for the hearing-impaired, like other sites are moving towards these days.
Have a look at my courses. Almost all have CC (if it's missing as in the Thunderbird Options Dialog course it's because that course isn't fully finished and adding CC is the last step). And have a look at the webpages with w3m - I actually tested them with it even though it seems useless when the content is multimedia ;-) Michael -- Email: mh@hasenstein.com Home: http://hasenstein.com/ Project: http://letexa.com/ Company: http://mbe-nuernberg.de/ Future company: http://euramer.com/ Моё терпение подходит концу! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org