On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 12:00:11AM -0500, Mike Shaver wrote: > ... it seems to me that nobody has > actually come out and said why we want a great doc portal. If it's I > had to explain it to somebody, it'd probably be "to get more ISVs to > target Linux" or even "to get more ISV software on Linux", which is > why I'm saying the things you read above.
This describes my feelings too, although I recall it gained a pretty quick concensus at the meeting, so assume that there *is* a need here, it just needs to be defined. But I also know it's a LOT of work to put one of these things together, especially up front before there's much in there. You'd need either a dozen or so people working at it full time for a year or two, or an order of magnitude more extremely passionate people working voluntarily in order to get it up off the ground and to a sustainable level. So I think this really emphasizes that the need has to be clearly defined, and be something that really, really excites one of two groups of people: a) Crazy, obsessive technical writers who will feel that by dedicating a fairly large chunk of their life to it, that it'll make the world a better place. b) Crazy, rich CEOs and CTOs who will feel that by dedicating a lot of their budget to it, that it'll make their companies more successful. There's probably a few other ways to do it, but these two are the best proven models. ;-) Bryce
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