Competition and Integration

[Karsten Wade]

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 00:30 +1000, Colin Charles wrote:
> 
> That would mean getting Max, to agree to his faq becoming merged at the
> main site, and of less importance
> 
> Boy were there troubles I remember when trying to sort this out at the
> OpenOffice.org project (I used to be the unofficial FAQ maintainer
> too...) There were just sadly about three other competing ideas when the
> merger came and no one seemed to agree on anything useful it'd seem

This is my biggest personal concern.  I don't want our Big Fedora Ax to
takeover the good work done by others.  I don't see a need to compete in
a doc niche unless there is a need.  Such as the existing docs are worth
replacing. :)

> >  ignore 
> > it and let it continue as it is. any other ideas?
> 
> If Max is happy with what he does, I say lets point to it. We should
> decentralise as much as possible (we can have a faq on our site, but we
> should allow for unofficial faqs)
> 
> Now back to ubuntuguide. The step-by-step guide _really_ does help new
> users to Fedora (well, Ubuntu in that case). If someone's interested,
> something like that should happen with the faq
> 
> BTW, I'm not sure if Max read's this list, but at some stage someone on
> the Steering Committee (docs) should contact him

Good idea, we want the connection done properly.  However, if there is
anyone who wants to be the writer in charge of such a derivation, that
would be a Good Think to Know.  I don't want to start such discussions
without someone committed to doing the work we agree upon.

I don't think we can possibly replace fedorafaq.org.  I know we don't
want to.  I would be concerned that our derivation would draw people
from fedorafaq.org that need to be there instead.  It would be awkward
to have a huge "Tip" at the start of our FAQ that then vaguely suggests
searching somewhere else for answers if you can't find them here.
Especially if our FAQ became highly ranked.

- Karsten

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