From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: Guix website Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 13:49:43 -0500 Message-ID: <20160103184943.GC29254@jasmine> References: <20151230111841.GA12100@thebird.nl> <20151231174244.GA13890@jasmine> <87d1tll4aj.fsf@gnu.org> <20160101212330.GB11284@jasmine> <87bn92vjc2.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39257) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFnit-0005eT-AI for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 13:49:48 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFniq-0003KI-4C for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 13:49:47 -0500 Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:56879) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFniq-0003KA-0J for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 13:49:44 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87bn92vjc2.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 03:17:01PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Leo Famulari skribis: > > > Yes, I personally hate watching videos and listening to podcasts. I only > > do it when there is no transcript and I am on a long bus or train ride > > and can't concentrate on working. I personally found that video to be a > > very good explanation of the problems addressed by Guix and the > > solutions offered. As well as the newer video you mentioned. > > > > A transcript next to slides [0] can be read in less time than 45 > > minutes. It can also be skimmed, searched, and anchor-linked. > > I agree. If someone volunteers to write transcripts of the available > videos, we could put them online (but obviously that’s quite a bit of > work!). > > > A number of the ...unusual questions people have asked about Guix > > demonstrate a near total lack of knowledge about the project's goals and > > design. We need an overview like that provided by the videos. The manual > > is more of a "how-to". > > The liberating, dependable, and hackable items on the front page link to > overviews in the manual, notably the “Features” node. Maybe a good > start would be to improve them? > > > I also liked some blog posts by Andy Wingo and Christopher Allan Webber, > > although those posts don't explain "the whole picture". > > Agreed, blog posts like these and those of David and Ricardo are very > nice, because they show concrete use cases. > > They’re also useful for someone knowledgeable about the project because > they clearly show parts that are confused, badly documented, or that > somehow fail to address the problems people are having. > > I would invite the bloggers among us to do more of these. :-) How about linking these blog posts from the site? That could be a good way to catch the attention of new visitors. > > Thanks, > Ludo’.