On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 03:17:01PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis: > > > Yes, I personally hate watching videos and listening to podcasts. I only > > do it when there is no transcript and I am on a long bus or train ride > > and can't concentrate on working. I personally found that video to be a > > very good explanation of the problems addressed by Guix and the > > solutions offered. As well as the newer video you mentioned. > > > > A transcript next to slides [0] can be read in less time than 45 > > minutes. It can also be skimmed, searched, and anchor-linked. > > I agree. If someone volunteers to write transcripts of the available > videos, we could put them online (but obviously that’s quite a bit of > work!). > > > A number of the ...unusual questions people have asked about Guix > > demonstrate a near total lack of knowledge about the project's goals and > > design. We need an overview like that provided by the videos. The manual > > is more of a "how-to". > > The liberating, dependable, and hackable items on the front page link to > overviews in the manual, notably the “Features” node. Maybe a good > start would be to improve them? > > > I also liked some blog posts by Andy Wingo and Christopher Allan Webber, > > although those posts don't explain "the whole picture". > > Agreed, blog posts like these and those of David and Ricardo are very > nice, because they show concrete use cases. > > They’re also useful for someone knowledgeable about the project because > they clearly show parts that are confused, badly documented, or that > somehow fail to address the problems people are having. > > I would invite the bloggers among us to do more of these. :-)
How about linking these blog posts from the site? That could be a good way to catch the attention of new visitors. > > Thanks, > Ludo’.