[Xorg] Projects suggestions

[Alan Coopersmith]

Ely Levy wrote:
> 1)Doc project
>    Creating and maintaining docs, translating docs to diffrent langauges
>    Making howtos and newbie guides (like a newbie guy for X configuration
>    could be highly helpfull). helping in ordering the wiki and faqs so
>    people could find help solving their problems.

The first step, which has been discussed elsewhere, is getting all the docs
translated to a common format that can be edited by free software tools,
such as DocBook XML, instead of the multitude of formats currently used,
including some propreitary ones like FrameMaker.  ESR's doclifter tool has
been proposed as a way to get started, and then get volunteers to proof/polish
the results.

> 2)Forum
>    Yea, a support forum for X, its proven itself to be highly usefull
>    in creating a community in various projects. Users/Developers help each
>    other, and more than a few people find it nicer than mailing lists.

And yet another large group of people find web forums much worse than mailing
lists.  It's a rare website that I can get around to visiting on a regular
basis - forums are just much harder to follow and participate in than a mailing
list or newsgroup.  Perhaps that's just proof that we should have both (and
perhaps a gateway between the two) so that users can pick the medium they prefer.

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