Re: FAQs for Fedora Docs contributors

A central page with links in succession to the various pages would be a huge help in getting started. Also an explanation what each account you create does for you. In a previous post to this list it was mentioned that many of the users won't have a technical background. When creating an account the step of adding the ssh pub key might throw the inexperienced users for a short loop. First you have to create the key. Easy enough to do with keygen, then the second thing that might cause them difficulty is getting to the file. Recent FF versions will not allow you to browse to the dot dirs. With your pub key living in .ssh that can cause a bit of a temporary quandry for a new user. Easily solved by either copying the file up a dir or creating a symbolic link to the dir or file. So it might be worth mentioning if we do have inexperienced users. Could save them a bit of aggravation. To the non-technical user it appears they do not have that dir as by default hidden dirs are not displayed in the GUI file managers. Firefox's upload dialog won't traverse that dir even if they can find it. Most inexperienced users won't think of using the CLI to look. If they do the ls -al won't come to mind anyway. Then if they can get to the dir the file they need doesn't exist. Gotta put yourself in their place when they hit those obstacles. Another thing that would help I think would be a page with basic IRC info. Most people this day an age use IM and many have never heard of IRC. When I did the MMORPG thing I had to hand hold hundreds of users while teaching them how to use IRC. Been trying out pIdgin for IRC and it seems to work pretty well so far. Pigin is installed on just about everything. So might be a good idea to give a quick half page rundown on how to set up pidgin for IRC, how to register a nic and how how to join the fedora-docs channel. IRC is obviously the best choice for this kind of work. Many folks though will need an introduction too it. Right now I hit a dead end. I think I have all the necessary accounts. Now what? Can't edit anything, can't create a new topic, least doesn't appear that I can. Those are my first thoughts on the topic. On 8/21/07, Karsten Wade <kwade(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: