This is getting a little bit off topic, but is there a working group for making Debian easier to install? Not just dselect, but the documentation, the layout and organization of www.debian.org, the whole works? If there is, I want to get involved with it because I am starting a project now that I've been thinking about for some time: making a custom Debian "distribution" geared toward writers, artists and other creative types who don't have much knowledge of Linux to start with. I think we're reaching the time where such a thing is possible, what with the quality and scope of the software that's out there. What has to be done now is ease of installation and the whole package maintenance thing, more tutorials (both paper and digital, including interactive, like a "training shell" perhaps). I know this is a large undertaking -- in the extreme sense, where a Linux/UNIX total beginner buys one of these machines with Linux installed, they're going to need help with administration. Actually, they're going to need someone _else_ to administer it. So I wonder about the feasability of some "volunteer Linux administration network," where the end-user has their machine connected to the net via a dialup line and this volunteer network has an admin account on the machine where they can go in and perform routine tasks that need to get done. Or volunteer members get "sponsor" users who are geographically near them, and only that volunteer has admin access to the machine. Maybe this could be tied in with all the Linux user groups that are sprouting up everwhere, I don't know -- just some open thoughts for debate.
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