From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Mar 18 20:54:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA13361 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 20:54:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.realtime.net (mail1.realtime.net [205.238.128.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA13356 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 20:54:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jktheowl@bga.com) Received: (qmail 35330 invoked from network); 19 Mar 1998 04:53:15 -0000 Received: from zoom.realtime.net (HELO zoom.bga.com) (root@205.238.128.40) by mail1.realtime.net with SMTP; 19 Mar 1998 04:53:15 -0000 Received: from barnowl (apm7-205.realtime.net [204.96.0.205]) by zoom.bga.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA05705; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 22:53:08 -0600 Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 22:58:34 -0600 (CST) From: John Kenagy X-Sender: jktheowl@barnowl.roost.net To: Annelise Anderson cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: doc "renovation" project volunteer In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Annelise Anderson wrote: > Just a quick note (it's tax time in America and I am supposed to > be calculating some weird thing): How much we didn't make last year. > --I don't think there's any vision of what FreeBSD documentation > ought to look like in, say, a year or two...maybe the manual pages/FAQ/ > handbook/other stuff as needed is okay, then again maybe before a lot of > work is done we ought to consider where we would like to go (Jordan has > a MiniFaq on Usenet) Sue Blake has also posted about her confusion on this as well. I guess I'm one of those latecomers sliding in. I agree with you both. A vision of where this is to go and an overall collaborative authority are necessary for success. Shall we talk about this? The documents must deal first and foremost with the needs of a new user. One who does not know much other that they want to try FreeBSD. The documentation as it stands now did not help me when I started with 2.1.5 (downloaded and installed from dos partition). FreeBSD is free but I've had to make a $400 investment in books to do what I want with it. This is not good. This needs to be fixed and I want to help. > > --There seems not to be anyone in charge, who functions as the > interface between the core team and the rest of the world and has enough > authority to make some decisions. Right, and there must be or there will be a bigger, faster version of the same thing. Thanks to everyone who is participating in this. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message