On Saturday, December 3, 2016 at 12:13:35 AM UTC+1, Andrew David Wong wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 12/02/16 11:17, Kopimi Security wrote: > > On Thursday, December 1, 2016 at 12:56:11 AM UTC+1, Andrew David Wong wrote: > >> Unfortunately, the financial necessity of shifting our priorities to > >> commercial > >> clients will mean that we have less time to work on features that benefit > >> the > >> wider, security-minded open source community, which has been our focus for > >> the > >> past seven years. This deeply saddens us. (We all use Qubes on our > >> personal > >> computers too!) However, the reality is that ITL can't afford to sustain > >> the > >> open source development of Qubes for much longer. We're running out of > >> time. > >> > >> In an attempt to keep the open source development of Qubes going, we've > >> teamed > >> up with Open Collective [07], which makes it easier to donate to the Qubes > >> project. Now, in addition to our Bitcoin fund [08], we can also accept > >> donations via credit card. ITL will not benefit from of any of the money > >> donated > >> through Open Collective. Instead, the funds will be paid directly to > >> individual > >> developers who have been hired to work on the open source edition of Qubes. > > > > I'm excited about this, and wish to support Qubes. > > My first thoughts are "How can Qubes reach a broader community", and "Can > > the HOWTO's be made more approachable?". > > For example, the section 'assigning-devices' on the /doc/, didn't get into > > how to actually use a mouse with a sys-usb qube, before at the very end. > > And there, the way it was written gave the impression of giving the answer > > almost as an afterthought, as if it should have been obvious to everybody. > > As such, it reads as it was written by somebody "too close to the problem". > > Somebody being so familiar with the system that outsiders' inability to > > grasp the "obvious", escapes him. Or her. > > This is not a unique issue for ITL though, the same problem pops up > > everywhere when highly technical minded people try to convey something to > > people who just wants to be *users*! > > > > So that's what I'm thinking, maybe it would be good for the > > "evangelization" of Qubes to make some very simple, brief, and to-the-point > > videos and howto's? > > > > Yes, certainly. Would you be willing to help us with that? :) >
Absolutely! Would it be okay if I started with some of the /doc/-articles? I've noticed that some of them could benefit from an update, as an example the one on Kali (https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/pentesting/kali/). Please let me know if this is something that I could help out with. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/cc29f7a9-af14-460b-94d1-de12c1bec0eb%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
