Hello Lucas, Wednesday, March 30, 2005, 11:27:11 PM, you wrote:
> Seems to me that all you have to do is give an advice on what to read. > That way, you're not telling people to read certain things, you're not > forcing them to do anything. The ones that will learn everything from > man pages and faqs can do that, the others can take a look at the advice. > You could 'certify' certain books. If there is such good material from > Sybex and O'Reilly, why compete? Review those books, and specify wich > one could be seen as the best for a newbie to unix/bsd, wich one is better > to really check up on all the details, and so forth. So there should be basic info about what a specific topic means and where materials are to be found for newbie/advanced users. Sounds fair enough to me. :) > In my opinion we should really start to get something done, now that we're > starting to attract the media. I know there are translating teams (I'm in > one of them :) ), how about starting a material-reviewing team too, and > perhaps localise those too (not to sure on that, there is hardly > any serious Dutch material on BSD for instance). Agree. Material-reviewing team is most needed too. > When the list of topics Jeremy Reid is compiling is finished, a 'team' > to design questions on those topics could be set up. Of course we shouldn't > put the tests on the wiki :-) Seems to me this is going to be a good test on how much people are willing to contribute. > Well, that's enough spewing for now, > Lucas >>> The question of 'study materials' keeps cropping up, specifically >>> around licensing of that material. >>> As many of us have stated repeatedly, the problem with publishing BSD >>> books is that you are competing with some of the better documentation >>> in technology. >>> George >> Many >> advanced BSD users can find out on their own data regarding specific >> subjects, >> but most of the beginners don't know where to look or how to look. Also, >> nobody >> can know everything and this is the reason why even advanced users will >> benefit >> from that knowledge. >> >> Andrei -- Best regards, Andrei _______________________________________________ BSDCert mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert
