[TOS] any interest in activities to introduce FOSS projects?

Tue Apr 30 12:07:45 UTC 2019

Hi William,

Thank you for the pointer to FLOSS Manuals – seems like a great resource. The manuals I’ve looked at seem very good, but do little to draw new users into the project community. In the FLOSS Manual for Audacity, the only reference I see to the project community is a one page appendix “Additional Help” which lists resources: user guide, wiki, forum, mailing list, videos, IRC. In the FLOSS Manual for Inkscape, I see no references to the project community or resources. Does anyone know of FLOSS Manuals that emphasize the project community?

I’m imagining topics like those in italics below – maybe sections or sidebars in a manual/tutorial, or maybe a separate tutorial. The idea is to help people learn about the project and the community together, so that participating & contributing seem as natural as using the software.

- The Project

- The Project Community

- Installing the Software

- Basic Features

- Finding Information (manuals, FAQs)

- More Basic Features

- Asking & Answering Questions (forums, lists, IRC)

- Intermediate Features

- Reporting Problems

- More Intermediate Features

- Suggesting Features and Changes

- Advanced Features

- Contributing to the Community

Clif
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From: William Walter Kinghorn [mailto:williamk at dut.ac.za] 
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2019 2:19 AM
To: Clif Kussmaul <clifkussmaul at gmail.com <mailto:clifkussmaul at gmail.com> >
Subject: Re: [TOS] any interest in activities to introduce FOSS projects?

Hi clif,

Have a look at FLOSS Manuals : https://flossmanuals.net/

Possibly you can edit/add to the project

They do have manuals on Audacity, Blender, iInkscape, and a lot more

William

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Subject: [TOS] any interest in activities to introduce FOSS projects? 

Hi everyone,

A year or so ago, I went to a library open house where students and faculty demoed FOSS tools like Audacity, FreeMind, Inkscape, GIMP, & WordPress. However, no one I talked to had participated in their project’s community. This seems like a missed opportunity, especially for someone who uses one project heavily (e.g. a musician who uses MuseScore, a designer who uses InkScape).

Thus, I’d like to develop some activities to help non-technical people learn more about a specific FOSS project, and how to access it’s online resources and interact with the community. I plan to start with Audacity & MuseScore. Please let me know if you have other project suggestions, or would like to work together on such activities. My hope is that after the first few we can create a template to make it easier to do more.

Clif
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