On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 08:22 -0500, Wendy Sheridan wrote: Welcome Wendy! I'm confident you will be a great addition to the team with your tremendous experience.
BTW, team: does anyone know of places where we could use illustrations (except title page)? > Hi, > I am brand new to this project (I just heard about it and signed up > yesterday), but I've been working as a tech writer for about 20 years > or so (and a technical illustrator for about 3 years or so). I think I > am also a member of your target audience: I have (significant) > computer experience, but not specifically with Ubuntu. I've done > things with Linux (Red Hat), and even UNIX and X-Windows at previous > jobs, but it's been so long ago that I've forgotten most or all of it > - and I've never installed any of these OSes before anyway. That sounds quite a bit different from "someone who might have used Windows or a Mac before" ;) I think everyone in a position to contribute to the manual with anything beyond feedback can most likely not be considered part of the target audience, not anymore. > How about this (or something like it) for the title: > > Ubuntu for Everyone > > (if you need to explain specifically what is in this manual, you could > also have a subtitle that gets very specific) > > This title is "friendly" and I think brings an emotional component and > certainly embodies inclusiveness. Thank you for the suggestion. I agree that it's very friendly, brings an emotional component and is very inclusive ... but too inclusive, I think, as our document is in fact not for everyone. We should not appear unrealistic in our ambitions. This reminds me of the Ubuntu slogans: "Linux for the rest of us" (at least often associated with it, if not originally) and "Linux for human beings". -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual Post to : ubuntu-manual@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
