Lørdag 25 oktober 2008 11:22:59 skrev Stephan Binner:
On Wednesday 22 October 2008 17:24:53 Martin Schlander wrote:
For help maybe a better and smaller quickstart guide - maybe 30-40 pages
How have existing quickstart and user guides to change, or are they not read?
The startup guide included in the box, and available as pdf and html, is certainly under-exposed - not many know about it. Even if they did I'm afraid it's a little too long to be considered a quick start guide - only very enthusiastic people will pick it up. It also suffers from not being able to cover such things as how to get support for multimedia codecs. What I have in mind is a little short guide of 1-3 pages per topic (installing packages, using a terminal, configuring network etc.), for the impatient. Almost like a pamphlet or something. A lot of electronic devices will have a little "Getting started quick" guide, alongside the full manual.
Some training/courses and more local user groups offering face-to-face
Web trainings? For comparision,for Ubuntu they're offered only for cash afaik.
Ideally real life training, but of course getting lecturers and rooms is difficult - doesn't have to be free (as in free beer) though. My lug is currently looking into creating a 6-8 lecture "Linux on the desktop for n00bs" course - each lecture covering a basic topic "installation", "desktops", "terminal", "free software/open source", "troubleshooting", "major applications", etc. Hopefully we can get if off the ground, and do it twice a year. Unfortunately there's still some debate as to whether it should be Ubuntu centric or distro agnostic.. damn hobbits are everywhere :-| Something like the videos included in the 11.0 German box set might also do the trick - if they were only done right, covering the right topics. Advanced use of OOo and GIMP or how to lose all your KDE data is all very nice. But a lot of new users give up in the first day or two I think - maybe 5-10 minute screencasts showing "howto add repositories and install packages", "basic use of a terminal", "how to configure network", "installing 3d blobs", "how to get multimedia support", "(proper) introduction to a KDE4 desktop" etc. This is also something that the community could do. The problem is just who can and will do a good job producing the screencasts - preferably a native English speaker - and how to make sure the stuff gets seen by as many people as possible. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org