To the Kubuntu Documentation Team: (not sure that the above email address is correct, but it came from the Kubuntu documentation) Oct. 8, 2014
My fellow Kubuntu users. Greetings from Canada. I am a relatively new user to Kubuntu, and fell in love with Kubuntu 12.04 it when I retired from my IT job a few years ago. I decided to no longer use Windows at that time and converted myself to Kubuntu. It's been a bumpy road, and I made lots of mistakes, broke various versions of Kubuntu, reloaded them, upgraded my hardware to a 64-bit cpu and went through another bumpy road with various versions of Kubuntu, until now where I find myself: at version 14.04 --until it breaks. <smile> Kubuntu is a wonderful computer system, but what lacks is relevant documentation and help. What I see as needed to move the Kubuntu System forward is a much better documentation system --a wiki of sorts like Wikipedia. A place where anyone can post information under a hierarchy of menu items, and where experts can simply correct what is posted if it is a bit "off the mark." People could simply ask a question on a discussion page (just like wikipedia) and experts could add the answer to the page in question. the Kubuntuguide site was a great start <http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Kubuntuguide> to such an idea, but the idea never took off because it's too slow and cumbersome to make changes. On Wikipedia, changes are seen as soon as they are made. - registered users on Kubuntuguide would offer changes, and they would be reviewed by someone, who in turn would edit your work. Changes would take a long time to get through, and before one version of Kubuntu docs was completed, the developers had abandoned it and gone to a new version. - In addition, most Kubuntu users didn't use the site, but rather used the Ubuntu resources, and the developers and document writers also where not there improving the information. - It was located on a university site somewhere in Europe, but did not have the support of the core developers. I see that a copy has moved under the Ubuntu umbrella, but it has not changed much since I first saw the site in Europe. I'm sure there are lots of people who would like to help, but it needs to be a system that is easy to use and where one sees the impact of their work as soon as it is done. That is one of the reasons Wikipedia is such a success. I would love to help in the documentation area, but having to learn to compile documents so that they are included somewhere inside the installation iso of a new version seems so old fashion and non-effective to me. Are you guys/gals working on getting a Wikipedia-like page up to compile up-to-date Kubuntu documentation? Donald smile4yourself at yahoo.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-doc-english/attachments/20141008/e67faa9b/attachment.html>
