[openbeos] Re: Welcome Package [was Re: linuxformat mag: 30 days with Haiku]

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> From: "Stephan Assmus" <superstippi@xxxxxx>
> To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [openbeos] Welcome Package [was Re: linuxformat mag: 30 days with 
> Haiku]
> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:23:40 +0200
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Humdinger wrote:
> > scott mc wrote:
> > > Perhaps we need that welcome package after all?
> >
> > I've been working on this a bit. Originally, I wanted to wait for 
> > anyone to have a look at it until it's more fleshed out. But 
> > before three others start their own efforts...
> >
> > Not being a developer, I concentrated on the user part, 
> > converting the stuff from the Haikuware wiki stuff 
> > (http://www.haikuware.com/hikis/) into simple HTML. I maybe have 
> > to look over the result to clean it up a bit...
> > I also started with some new docs, that will eventually find 
> > their way into the wiki.
> >
> > Have a look at it: http://www.webfile.ws/d/2005 (~480kb). I guess 
> > the material should be local on the HD of the user, since his 
> > networking might not work right away.
> > Is this the right direction for a welcome package? I mean... I 
> > could be totally off in content and appearance...
> >
> > I could use some help, of course, esp. with the developer related 
> > stuff (what documents should be linked to online, should some 
> > documents be converted to static HTML and stored locally?).
> 
> This is _very_ neat. The level of detail provided feels perfect to me.
> There are a few improvements I see, like making it more "navigatable", a
> few corrections here and there, but really, this is great.
> 
> Now, I would propose to put this into the repository and continue to work
> on it there. It would also be great if we had a way to actually generate
> this from another format. I am not familiar with this yet, but people like
> Niels and DarkWyrm are and I am sure we can see how it's done from the
> existing documentation.
> 
> What do other think about this approach? We could also give Humdinger SVN
> access to continue working on this in the repo. It feels much more sane
> than any manual form of collaboration.
> 
> Best regards,
> -Stephan

I like it as well and it's something essential to have, IMO.
The approach and tone are right. Perhaps breadcrumbs can be used to ease 
navigation.
For some reason I feel the banner might be customized away from the too 
obligatory blue background and with -for example- an added "welcome", "getting 
started" or other friendly/more original phrase and perhaps some extra 
colours/icons to keep it "light" for the novice user.
Apart from an apparently missing 'twitcher.html' file I think it's a good basis 
and I'm glad Humdinger took up the task.

-Meanwhile   


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