On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Balachandran Sivakumar <benignb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > What we can do is, make it newbie friendly. We can help newbies both > with the problem they are facing and with the guidelines. > We can discuss this ad infinitum. The newbie expectation (from my perspective) is that senior/experienced users must bend / bow to them, hold their hands and spoon feed them. You go through the archives and you will find people posing questions and then disappearing when more information is sought from them. A few have been "fearless" and their knowledge base has blossomed, if this is their "fear" then IMO they should stick with whatever OS they are comfortable with. They are switching to Linux for their *own* benefit, the FOSS community has it's own culture and they need to embrace and adopt it. They are not doing FOSS any favor by switching to Linux/*BSD. IMO, this is no different than relocating to a different part of the world, learning the local language, eating local food and adopting the local culture. >> In the age of internet, the support we give is very less, while most of the >> content is available on various forums/blogs/stackoverflow etc. Do we need >> archiving? How are we using ilugc mail archives? >> > > Yes, we do need archiving.. The content available on forums > etc. is available because they decided to archive. Archiving > contributes to the existing knowledge base, irrespective of how less > the support we give is. For eg., the other day Noorul Islam helped > another member with the usb dongle(or something similar). Now that it > is archived, it will benefit everyone. > +1. I don't want to share my query/knowledge on FB which is 'closed' to search engines (as Shrini mentioned in an earlier post). -- Arun Khan Sent from my non-iphone/non-android device I'd rather be called a moron, than walk around with doubts in my mind. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
