Re: booklet

On Sunday 15 August 2010 01:51:45 Damien Tardy-Panis wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I recently spend some time on the booklet.

Amazing, tnx for keeping this moving!

> Here is the result and the current situation :
> 
> - I added some "references" at the end of each part. I didn't include
> websites that seems no longer active (Kopete's for example). Check here if I
> forgot some important things or if I put some that could be removed in your
> opinion.
> 
> - I wrote the last part ("KDE software in use"). Feel free to change
> everything you want in that part. I really don't mind if everything goes in
> the trash! This chapter was pretty cool to write, I learned many things
> looking for information on the Internet. I also moved the paragraph
> referring to Webkit in this part as it seems more accurate there to me.
> 
> - I integrate into the text the many relevant comments made by David, Irina
> and *imag1narynumber*. However, I didn't integrate all of them : some are
> quite subtle and require a higher level of English than mine to be treated
> correctly.
> 
> - I added few screenshots (and removed some of them). I think there should
> between 2 and 4 screenshots/images/photos per chapter. So there is still
> work to do for the last chapters. Maybe, as these parts speak about the
> community and people, it would be cool to add photos there (Akademy,
> developers sprint, ...). If we only put screenshots of applications in the
> booklet, readers will not see us as a community of people. If some of you
> have great photos that could be put in the booklet, please add them.

@everyone: please try and find some time to do what Damien asks! A bit support and it can be done soon :D

> Here is a list of main things that we don't speak about in the booklet and
> that maybe need a discussion : Dolphin, Konqueror, KDE Finance apps, "join
> the game".
> In my view, Dolphin and Konqueror are the kind of applications that every
> future user would expect to have, so I'm not sure it's worth talking about.
> I know these are not common apps and that they have really innovative and
> cool stuff but does it worth writing a part for it ? Maybe just report them
> ?

They might be worth a few sentences, yes, as long as it focusses on what's great and special. Only if there is enough room...

> I think I will add a small paragraph in the "Create part" to highlight the
> presence of the KDE Finance softwares.

Yes!

> About the "join the game" effort, I though of it recently but I'm not sure
> the booklet will be handed to its target people.
> What do you think about this?

Hmmm, yes, I don't think it'd be bad to add a page on that. You can easily reuse text from the join the game folder. Maybe even use the same look & feel?

> The booklet begin to be pretty long, thus I have highlighted most changes
> with an orange background. This way, you don't have to review the whole
> document if you don't want so.
> 
> Some polishing and the final review will be coming soon :-)
> 
> Damien
>

 
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