Helping new Ubuntu phone users, an update

[David Planella]

Hi all,

A while ago we started an initiative to make it easier for new users to get
started using the Ubuntu phones, essentially an app to answer the most
common questions and to provide tips and tricks using the new interface.

There's been quite a lot of progress since then. Daniel Holbach has been
leading this effort and working with other community members to bring the
app up to speed [2]. As of now, the app sports:

- Easy addition of new content using markdown
- Translations
- A theme for phone and another one for web
- Initial content added

The idea is that the app supports offline mode on the phone and the content
is available on the web too. Here's a temporary build to show what the web
content looks like in action [3].

As usual, we'd welcome suggestions and contributions of any kind: content,
code, translations, (yes, gif animations [4] too ;), etc.

With the doc's team track record of providing quality documentation for the
desktop, and with the new converged world coming, it's a good opportunity
to start thinking in terms of mobile and how documentation can help with a
smooth transition.

With the scaffolding in place, it's time to focus on new content, and with
this I'd like to send a call for new Q&As to help the next million phone
users. Contributing is easy:

http://pad.ubuntu.com/UbuntuHelpAppContent

Or alternatively merge proposals [5] are even better.

Next steps:
- Improve the theming for both phone and web
- Publish the app to the store
- Publish the web version on help.ubuntu.com
- More content! :-)

Thanks everyone!

Cheers,
David.

[1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2015-February/019358.html
[2] https://daniel.holba.ch/blog/tag/help/
[3] http://people.canonical.com/~dpm/help-app/web/index.en-us.html
[4] http://people.canonical.com/~dpm/help-app/web/settings.en-us.html
[5] https://launchpad.net/help-app
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