Challenge/Declaration - To all DebainEdu/Skolelinux users: The month after release is documantation month. (feb. 8 - march 8.)

Challenge/Declaration - To all DebainEdu/Skolelinux users: The month 
after release is documantation month. (feb. 8 - march 8.)

I challenge every member of the community to step up and pitch in. Edit 
existing documentation and improving it, and adding new documentation, 
so we can have a shining example of user-friendly help. Even the 
newbiest of newbs can help by simply pointing out what they'd like to 
see, or even starting to write it themselves (it's a wiki, so others can 
correct any mistakes you make, don't be affraid to write english, most 
of us are not native english speakers). Our experienced users and admins 
could present usefull tools for administration, or cool features that 
could be implemented.

If the workload is spread evenly around , then it will take no time to 
document a lot of features i DebianEdu/Skolelinux. Good and easy 
understandable documentation is one of the most important things when it 
comes to spread the use of our fantastic distro more. After all 
DebianEdu/Skolelinux is the most important Linux distro when it comes to 
introduce Linux and free software in an early age.

Here are some ideas:

- Walk a beginner through network setup
- Walk a begginer through the use of an essential program
- The most important and usefull linux commands
- How to set up a firewall
- How to play videos, dvd, mp3, streams, sound...
- The perfect setup
- Make a video tutorial
- How to do testing (check list?)
- Hardware choices
- HowTo set up an external backup pc
- Update the wishlist at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Wishlist
- Get started with Moodle in DebainEdu
- Cool educational apps
- Installing and configuring printers
- Samba
- Troubleshooting guides
- Links and recomandations to other great guides that are relevant for 
DebianEdu
- Eye candy
- Connect your DebianEdu/skolelinux blog to http://planet.skolelinux.org
   and tell us about the cool stuff you do with DebianEdu.

To consider the value of documentation, you only need to look at the 
projects where it is scant or non-existent. The projects also become 
scant and non-existent as people find that setup, install and operation 
are beyond the native intuitiveness of the interface and move onto 
something more user-friendly - something with documentation. The value 
of an application is often measured by it's documentation. We have a lot 
of good documentation, and our manual are becoming better and better 
every day. But in my oppinion it is almost impossible to get enough :)

So let us put our efforts together to make our documentation even better.

Ole-Anders Andreassen


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