Voices from the users

[Matthew East]

Milo Casagrande <milo_casagrande <at> yahoo.it> writes:

> I was reading through some posts in the italian ubuntu forum [1] and
> found an interesting one [2].
> Some users are complaining about the lack of information on how to
> contribute to the ubuntu community or on how to get help, this in
> particular for new users. They were talking about the default start page
> in firefox that should inform the users about all of the communication
> channels of the community (chat, wiki, lists, doc...); and also about
> modifying the start page of the forum.

If the firefox start page isn't an online page, we will hopefully be able to
localise the offline one and provide local help. Otherwise, I hope that the
bookmarks will include a link to a page on the website which has information for
other languages.
 
> I was thinking about another approach. I'm thinking something like
> having yelp starting automatically the first time i login onto my
> freshly ubuntu install, with a nice localized (l7d) start page with all
> the l7d links to the resources (something a-la "About Ubuntu") and the
> usual links you find in yelp ("Packaging Guide", "Starter Guide"...)
> (maybe also l7d).

I don't know about this, you'd have to mail the -devel list I think.

> A great feature would be having a snapshot of the wiki for offline
> reading for resolving problems like DSL connection, modems, 3D..., maybe
> linked from yelp (a project like this is already working for the italian
> wiki [3] and the german one, the project is FrozenWiki [4]).

Hopefully, we'll implement this on the planned future documentation wiki.
 
> Another useful thing would be having all the l7d links to the community
> inside firefox, next to the "Firefox & Mozilla Information" bookmarks,
> by default.

Yep, as above, I hope this will happen. In fact one of the Italian guys
(Beniamino Caputo) had been talking to the firefox maintainer about that. I'm
not sure on the status of discussions.

Matt