[indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

[Glynn Foster]

Ken Mays wrote:
>> What would you expect to see? Is there anything missing? Would you provide
>> >local links in the web-page, or could you simply package up some useful
>> start up >guide like the OpenSolaris mini-book?
> 
> Glynn,
> 
> Ref:  http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolaris_Summit
> 
> I wrote the 'unofficial' proposed Summit agenda I posted on the OpenSolaris
> Summit 2008 Wiki which could spawn a few beer bubbles on topics that you can
> cover in the Welcome guide.
> 
> Hey, maybe an updated topic on 'ZFS to the Max' (Backup/Restore?). ;o)

 From the responses to this thread (thanks to everyone who contributed), it 
looks like an ideal topic to bring up at the developer summit, and start 
collecting some of these ideas in a wiki. Good suggestion Ken.

Having talked to a few people, I think that we should try and assume something 
more simple for a number of reasons

	- our inability to be able to cover all our target users
	  (users, sys admins, developers, ...)
	- the readability of long vs short
	- the non-availability of some of these guides
	- release timing for May

Not only this, but the benefits of network connectivity also mean that we have 
the potential to dynamically change the real value content well after the 
product has shifted.

I've put together a mockup of what may be a better option [1] -

   http://www.gnome.org/~gman/opensolaris-dot-com/installed2.html

and would welcome feedback.



Glynn

[1] For example, Ubuntu's page looks like

     http://www.gnome.org/~gman/ubuntu-welcome.html