Very good point Peter Just had a look to the Joomla stuff and even IMHO joomla sucks but the docs style are kind we need. Before people start using TYPO3 they would like to read at least a good introducation and even this isn't uptodate. If you will have a look to the asterisk dokumentation you can find another document which really GUIDEs anybody thru everything.
We need some kind of good "schoolbook" for TYPO3 which is logical structured like you already mentioned. To write things in Google Docs really makes much fun! much more then in a wiki. On the other hand an important part is missing and thats' the GLOBAL structure of all Documents. You can't repeat them in every Google doc as it would not make sense. I really want to come back to my suggestion USE and TRY pipeline. Ok it has been designed for European prisoners but this should not be a handicap as it is working perfectly and you really can publish complete docs in a TYPO3 style as PDF. We only need to have fixed A4 Templates (a page should not be longer). Using "pagewizard" we could create a demo structure for starting Tutorials / Manuals. Docscould be published in a TYPO3-Bible quaterly AND IMHO charge for it - why not . i.e. if this Quaterly complete Book costs 15 Euro it would be much much cheaper then any other TYPO3 book available at the moment. It would hold much more then any other TYPO3 Book at the moment. If 1000 People by at least 1 Quaterly a Year you have 15.000 EURO. For updates of smaller sections (i.e. an extension) charge 1 Euro - why not. If 500 people update there 10 major Extensions a year you will have another 5000 Euro which would make 20.000 Euro a year. I guess this is a whole lot of money to finance a Team which reviews and REALLY Edits those docs in to a logical and wonderful example of a Software documentation which could even be awarded. _ Yes why not call out an award for the best documentation. Try to motivate people to write good documents. Have a look to the documents from webempoweredchurch. They all follow the same structure. They all have a lot of links to videos and other Tutorials. They are REALLY good. Why? I guess because people write them whose only job it is to write them :-) and the get paid by an organisation. As said before. if we continue like it is right now we will throw money out of the TYPO3 window to publishers and printers. So why don't keep it really a TYPO3 thing. Create all Docs INSIDE Typo3 using pipeline Extension. Try to receive some supporting money from the EU who runs the pipeline project. as if all TYPO3 stuff would be produced using pipeline, also pipeline would get a BIG push ahead in the project as I am pretty shure that pipeline would be perfectionated and both we the DOCusers and the "Prison"Editors would profit from this idea a lot! Simply set an Example and USE TYPO3 with all its potential. Infos are here: www.pipeline-project.org Ask Dennis Kranich he is very helpfull http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/pipeline_pdf/ Here we can use the complete already existing potential of TYPO3 :-) Andi 2008/3/15, Peter Kindström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Why not something like Joomla: > > * The Official Installation Manual for Typo3 > * The Official User Manual for Typo3 > * The Official Administrator Manual for Typo3 > * The Official Developer Manual for Typo3 > > ...for a start? > > And when they are finished, we could start adding more > specialised documents as "subdocuments" or appendixes? > > > > /Peter Kindström > > _______________________________________________ > TYPO3-english mailing list > TYPO3-english@lists.netfielders.de > http://lists.netfielders.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/typo3-english > _______________________________________________ TYPO3-english mailing list TYPO3-english@lists.netfielders.de http://lists.netfielders.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/typo3-english