RE: [opensuse-marketing] The openSUSE Handbook proposal

2010-10-06 Thread Bryant, Christian
Just as a proof-of-concept for document writing community success, see http://flossmanuals.net - easy to use, produces nice output, has a great community of contributors. In terms of wiki-to-book, Wikipedia has had that for some time, and there are some nice examples out there:

Re: [opensuse-marketing] The openSUSE Handbook proposal

2010-10-05 Thread Christian Boltz
Hello, on Montag, 4. Oktober 2010, Thomas Schraitle wrote: On Monday 04 October 2010 Christian Boltz wrote: [...] I'm not sure about that. I don't say that it will be very easy, but it should be possible, and it won't be too hard. You are underestimate the efforts. We can make a

Re: [opensuse-marketing] The openSUSE Handbook proposal

2010-10-04 Thread Thomas Schraitle
Hi, (CC'ed opensuse-doc so doc people can read that too.) On Monday 04 October 2010 Christian Boltz wrote: [...] I'm not sure about that. I don't say that it will be very easy, but it should be possible, and it won't be too hard. You are underestimate the efforts. 90% of the formatting

Re: [opensuse-marketing] The openSUSE Handbook proposal

2010-10-04 Thread Bruno Friedmann
to make it short +1000 for docbook -1 for wiki syntax, as there's no standard about wikis :-) Really it should be not too hard to find an xml docbook editor, syntax helper, for eclipse, or other ide to help people to write docbook ( which is really easy to learn ) -- Bruno Friedmann

Re: [opensuse-marketing] The openSUSE Handbook proposal

2010-10-03 Thread Christian Boltz
Hello, on Donnerstag, 30. September 2010, Frank Sundermeyer wrote: On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:59:56 +0200 Jos Poortvliet wrote: [file format of the manual and conversation to XML, PDF, ePub etc.] All this does not sound like a wiki or *pad is the tool of choice. Once you choose to use these tools

Re: [opensuse-marketing] The openSUSE Handbook proposal

2010-10-03 Thread Christian Boltz
Hello, on Donnerstag, 30. September 2010, Frank Sundermeyer wrote: On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:27:11 +0200 Javier Llorente wrote: - AutoYaST Currently not part of the openSUSE manuals, but documentation exists for SLE and could be added. So far this hasn't been asked for. ... System

Re: [opensuse-marketing] The openSUSE Handbook proposal

2010-10-01 Thread Will Stephenson
On Thursday 30 Sep 2010 14:26:34 Frank Sundermeyer wrote: in case you haven't done so, you might want to try the 11.3 eBooks http://community.opensuse.org/ebooks/ebooks113/ Feedback welcome. That's awesome! I had no idea we were already making .epubs out of our docu. I see some rendering

Re: [opensuse-marketing] The openSUSE Handbook proposal

2010-09-30 Thread Henne Vogelsang
Hey, On 30.09.2010 06:43, Manu Gupta wrote: Again, Grauham I bought the domain on a very cheap server, it mightbe down. I am again sorry for that. Why don't you run it inside the project then? I think something like moodle would be a great addition to the openSUSE project. You seem to have an

Re: [opensuse-marketing] The openSUSE Handbook proposal

2010-09-30 Thread Manu Gupta
Thats really nice and I would love to do that, a project being part og the community is always a great thing and I will try to give my best. Thanks a lot. However Why not, learn.opensuse.org or helpinghands.opensuse.org On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 09:33 +0200, Henne Vogelsang wrote: Hey, On

Re: [opensuse-doc] Re: [opensuse-marketing] The openSUSE Handbook proposal

2010-09-30 Thread Andreas Jaeger
On Thursday 30 September 2010 12:48:32 Frank Sundermeyer wrote: Use what is already there and help to improve it ;-). I agree with that - could you give a pointer on how to improve the existing documentation? Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE,

Re: Etherpad: Was [opensuse-marketing] The openSUSE Handbook proposal

2010-09-30 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Thursday 30 September 2010 01:20:30 Javier Llorente wrote: On Jueves, 30 de Septiembre de 2010 13:57:23 Bryen Yunashko escribió: On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 21:59 +0200, Jos Poortvliet wrote: Ambitious, but a good idea. We can do the writing either on the wiki or in piratepads (but piratepad

Re: [opensuse-marketing] The openSUSE Handbook proposal

2010-09-30 Thread Frank Sundermeyer
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:40:44 +0200 Will Stephenson wrote: Hi, On Thursday 30 September 2010 13:00:02 Frank Sundermeyer wrote: On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:56:25 +0200 Javier Llorente wrote: Hi, On Miércoles, 29 de Septiembre de 2010 21:00:29 Raul Libório escribió: Would be a

Re: [opensuse-marketing] The openSUSE Handbook proposal

2010-09-30 Thread Javier Llorente
On Jueves, 30 de Septiembre de 2010 13:00:02 Frank Sundermeyer escribió: On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:56:25 +0200 Javier Llorente wrote: Hi, On Miércoles, 29 de Septiembre de 2010 21:00:29 Raul Libório escribió: Would be a complement to http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Official_documentation?

Re: [opensuse-marketing] The openSUSE Handbook proposal

2010-09-30 Thread Rajko M.
On Thursday 30 September 2010 06:52:10 Frank Sundermeyer wrote: On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:59:56 +0200 Jos Poortvliet wrote: ... ... and get ppl to write... That will be the hardest part. How many _regular contributors_ (not speaking of ppl doing administrative tasks) do we have in the wiki?

Re: [opensuse-marketing] The openSUSE Handbook proposal

2010-09-29 Thread Bryen Yunashko
On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 17:34 -0400, Chuck Payne wrote: On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Rémy Marquis remy.marq...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Javier Llorente jav...@opensuse.org wrote: Hello there, I was thinking that having an openSUSE Handbook (or handbuch ;) in