Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 15:58:55 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Installation Guide Project [Was: Re: FreeBSD Adovcacy] Message-ID: <19990405035957.DOSU5752963.mta2-rme@wocker> In-Reply-To: <19990405115047.Q2142@lemis.com> References: <3706CA33.986B5C15@uswest.net>; from Darren Pilgrim on Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 06:10:59PM -0800
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On 5 Apr 99, at 11:50, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> Stay the course, Darren. Talk to the -newbies and ignore the crabby, > >> jaded ones who've forgotten what it's like not to have a clue about > >> BSD. :-D > > > > I plan on soliciting for volunteers in -newbies. I just want to have > > some kind of a webpage up for them to read before waving the Uncle Sam > > posters. > > It seems fashionable at the moment to believe that newbies can do > things that experienced people can't, simply because they're closer to the > problem. I have yet to see a really successful document come out of this > approach. I've found it a lot easier to let experienced people write the > documentation and have newbies review it to death. But that's what is proposed. Letting newbies review it. As for successful documents, and this is tongue in cheek for the humourless, some people, myself included, consider my website a success. And whilst I am a newbie with respect to FreeBSD, I'm not new to the computer field. I think it's horses for courses. I'm all for experienced people writing documents. But, clearly, nobody has stepped forward before this IGP was started. Otherwise, we'd already have the IG. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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