Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Where is the outline for the natty ubuntu manual?

On 04/12/2011 08:47 PM, Kevin Godby wrote: Hello, Kyle. On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Kyle Nitzsche wrote: From here (http://ubuntu-manual.org/jobs), I noticed you are seeking chapter authors for these topics: Installation The Ubuntu Desktop Working with Ubuntu Hardware Advanced Topics

[Ubuntu-manual] Where is the outline for the natty ubuntu manual?

Hi, From here (http://ubuntu-manual.org/jobs), I noticed you are seeking chapter authors for these topics: * Installation * The Ubuntu Desktop * Working with Ubuntu * Hardware * Advanced Topics * Troubleshooting Is that the complete set of topics (chapters)? (Or is this ju

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Documentation pool sample content

On 07/14/2010 12:27 AM, Jim Campbell wrote: Hi All, {snip} 2) Put the content into the different formats. Format assignments are as follows: - Docbook v5 - Could a member of the docs team take care of this one? Perhaps Kyle? Mdke? Yes I can put some docbook 5 there. This is perhaps a re

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] [UCLP] [Reminder] Collaberation meeting

Hi, Regarding docbook ease of use and suitability, a while ago I put together a build system (I call it doctemplate) for docbook that was designed to maximize certain values: * extreme ease of use * multiple output formats, all localized (currently two forms of html, pdf, epub, * localiza

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] An interesting blog by Matt Zimmerman touches on docs

ble offline. The way I recommended would work well, but would be *very* difficult. On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Kyle Nitzsche mailto:kyle.nitzs...@canonical.com>> wrote: Hi Jason, On 07/09/2010 04:08 PM, Jason Coo

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] An interesting blog by Matt Zimmerman touches on docs

Hi Jason, On 07/09/2010 04:08 PM, Jason Cook wrote: The inclusion of on-disk documentation should be up to the user and be "package-wide". Having a "documentation" package that has the documentation for all installed applications. The way this would work (at least in theory) is: * on inst

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] An interesting blog by Matt Zimmerman touches on docs

Hi Jim, On 07/09/2010 03:38 PM, Jim Campbell wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Jason Cook > wrote: The reason it may be a problem is that often when I don't have an internet connection, I need to know how to use an applications that have not yet lea

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] An interesting blog by Matt Zimmerman touches on docs

ackages. I don't see why this shouldn't continue (for some time anyway). Thus, your use case is addressed. In the meanwhile, there could be a wonderful and fun Ubuntu help web portal that starts to pick up the job of non-app-specific help. Cheers, Kyle On Fri, Jul 9, 2

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] An interesting blog by Matt Zimmerman touches on docs

to be a easy way to download all of that content locally. On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Jim Campbell <mailto:jwcampb...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi All, On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Shaun McCance mailto:sha...@gnome.org>> wrote: On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 17:13 -0400

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] An interesting blog by Matt Zimmerman touches on docs

Hello Shaun and all. On 07/07/2010 07:34 PM, Shaun McCance wrote: On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 17:13 -0400, Kyle Nitzsche wrote: http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/07/06/weve-packaged-all-of-the-free-software-what-now/ [snip] With which I agree in general. * on-disk docs might effectively

[Ubuntu-manual] An interesting blog by Matt Zimmerman touches on docs

http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/07/06/weve-packaged-all-of-the-free-software-what-now/ Which includes this tantalizing paragraph: *"Treat data as a service*. It’s no longer useful to package up documentation in order to provide local copies of it on every Linux system. The web is a much, much ri

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] [UCLP] Content pool, and Meeting

Resending with learning and manual lists included (oops ;) cheers On 07/07/2010 02:11 PM, Kyle Nitzsche wrote: Hi All: Hi all, If I were considering a common format pool for various downstream users, I would want to be explicit about the following: * the key users are identified as