Hello everybody, I'm back from illness again and hope 2004 will be like a second rebirth for me in all spheres of activities, REBOL included. In fact My best wishes to you all for this new year.
I already watched a lot of activities all around in the REBOL community since my last leaving and this is great news to come back and see all this involvement. Congratulations to everybody committed in some way to this success and I hope it will continue until REBOL's fame has attracted many many other players - like should be. As I follow the recent ML threads I understand that many newcomers still need to find some documentation and many of us have pointed very useful parts of the REBOL.COM web site or other REBOL related sources to help as much as possible. I also know that in the past I found myself knocking my nose on the REBOL.COM main page looking for more REBOL related information (beginner's, intermediate and advanced as well). After a quick overview I must that notwithstanding the efforts of the REBOL TEAM, there is still much to do before any newcomer is able to find by HIMSELF ALL about REBOL that could help him to solve his problem. I understand that the 2 best sources of information are the official REBOL.COM site (with its new Script library located at REBOL.ORG) and this ML but it has become evidence to me that some other simple enhancements to the REBOL.COM web site structure are necessary to easily fulfill some part of this annoyance. In this way a few minutes ago I was sending a new msg via the feedback to Carl and the RT that looks like this the followong. Don't be mislead : My goal is not to be pretentious here but simply to give some additional light from an outsider's point of view. In fact any suggestion to help Carl to better structure the already massive information pool available at REBOL.COM is welcome and will be appreciated by everybody in a foreseeable future - I hope. Sincerely, Gerard ------------- Copy from the feedback sent to Carl ----------------- Hi Carl, This is again Gerard Cote from Quebec City. While looking for what was new on the WEB and related with REBOL, I looked at your DOCS main page (REBOL.COM/docs.html) and never see a clear seperation and/or organization of the different many places listed elsewhere (on the http://www.rebol.net/links.html for example). For anybody new that comes from outside I suggest something like the following to group together the many differents aspects of what is REALLY available for newcomers and experienced REBOLERs too. This could be located on the main page or in the DOCS section if you want but - even in the Overview subsection of the Language if you prefer... Gerard Entry Nature of the content ---------------- --------------------- REBOL.COM OFFICIAL REBOL SITE - /DOCS/ REBOL DOCUMENTATION REBOL.NET DEVELOPERS' related stuff - /LIST/ Mailing list archive REBOLTECH.COM DEVELOPERS' related stuff - /LIBRARY/ Old script library REBOL.ORG DEVELOPERS' related stuff New script library NOT OFFICIAL BUT USEFUL REBOL RELATED PLACES ----------------------------------------------------------------- REBOLFORCES.COM ZINE with many ARTICLES ** etc... Other entries like the ones on your own page (http://www.rebol.net/links.html) ** In fact when I tried to find any info about the ZINE from the REBOL.COM web site search tool or from the script library search tool I found nothing! And after surfing a lot I found the almost lost links page above from the REBOL.NET site Could have been referred another way but I'm sure this will help the case to be solved ... Succintness seems to be THE new problem for newcomers now ;-) What has come about the old "keep it simple" adage ? I think time has come to redo some of our classwork, don't you ? Hope these suggestions, while not the most URGENT will better drive the newcomers and let them find quickly ALL the information that seems the best to them without having to dig too hard or deeply to find it... Thanks for listening Friendly, Gerard P.S. While looking around again (on the http://www.rebol.com/index-lang.html page) I found another link to the old script library (http://www.rebol.com/library.html) under the SCRIPT LIBRARY entry instead of the new one (REBOL.ORG). Don't forget the one on the main DOCS page too! -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.
