On Monday 26 October 2009 17:16:40 Arturo Silva wrote: > ================================ > Cornelius Schumacher wrote: > ================================ > > > When thinking about how to improve the KDE documentation situation, I > > realized that I don't really know a lot about how people use our > > documentation and what our user's requirements actually are. > > > > What about doing a survey and ask users about their current use of > > documentation and their ideas how it could be improved? > > > > We could ask questions to find out: > > - How do users get help? > > - How frequently do users use the different tools and systems > > (KHelpcenter, what's this help, online manuals, userbase, forums, google, > > etc.) - Do users have Internet connections? > > - Do users need printable manuals? > > - Would users be willing to contribute to documentation? > > - What kind of tools and formats do documentation contributors prefer? > > - How much do users rely on translated manuals? > > - What parts of the manuals are users using? > > - What would users like to see in addition to what we already have? > > > > How do you like this idea? > > I like the idea as long as such a survey does get a good amount of > exposure (e.g., not limtied to a forum requiring registration). A few > months back (long before I came here) I remember doing surveys which > allowed me to "vote" for the best Oxygen icons for K3b and KDevelop -- > and despite the limited options and lack of comment fields, I actually > thought it was a wonderful idea. It was easy to use, brief and > informative and relatively painless to participate in. I'm not sure > if the amount of responses with this was any better, but I wouldn't be > surprised if the turnout was relatively impressive. > > However, I only really knew about them because they were advertised in > the major Linux online news sites -- otherwise, I doubt I would've > known about them at all. I still wonder if perhaps more were made, > but slipped under the radar for me. :( > We could mount a campaign to publicise it on Mailing Lists as well. http://userbase.kde.org/Mailing_Lists has a list of user-centric ones. I could mail those. What about distro-centric ones? Does anyone know if such a list exists anywhere? If not we'd be trusting to luck that someone who reads here could contact the various lists.
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