FDSCo Mtg / User Guide Update

About two weeks ago, I had mentioned trying to finally finish the F9 UG but that there were some chapters that I wasn't in the position to fact check. I think Karsten's suggestion that we publish a guide without these chapters (those chapters being on KDE and Xfce) actually had some merit (1), so that's the plan I'm going with right now. From that same email (1) we had also talked about the guys at SCaLE working on the F10 update with me over VOIP. That should still be able to work out, and I'm thinking we can take a giant chunk out of the F10 version of the UG. If that goes as well as I envision it to, I think we could say that the F10 guide should be ready by mid March. As we move up the revisions, Elizabeth Ann and I had set plans to overhaul a few chapters at a time. The chapters don't need overhauling because they aren't understandable, but we're aiming to make the instructions to the user and the style in which they are presented uniform and more easily accessible as a reference guide (as opposed to a novel read front to back); in other words, we want to make any block of text try to be as understandable as possible with the user having to visit the smallest number of other pages as possible. Another thing we had mentioned in the past was dumping the wiki and writing straight to XML (2). I'm still a proponent of this, but I think it's more important to at least get up to date (F11) before we worry about changing that. And when/if we do change it, I think we need to carefully look at how we can still make this document easy to access for new contributers. Anyway, since "User Guide Update" or something to that effect was on today's Agenda, and since I'm always half an hour late for these FDSCo meetings, I wanted to send this out ahead of time. If we do get to this in the meeting, please wait for me. :-) -Matthew References: [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2009-January/msg00223.html [2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2009-January/msg00061.html