[IAEP] Wiki Gardening Weekend (May 14-15, Boston, USA)

[Walter Bender]

Iain,

Great material.

-walter

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Iain Brown Douglas <
iain at browndouglas.plus.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2016-04-12 at 23:48 -0400, Dave Crossland wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi Martin!
> >
> > On 12 April 2016 at 17:02, Martin Dengler <martin at martindengler.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >         On 12 Apr 2016, at 14:45, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com>
> >         wrote:
> >
> >
> >         >
> >         > On 12 April 2016 at 15:38, Martin Dengler
> >         > <martin at martindengler.com> wrote:
> >         >         The point is that because it's a waste of work and
> >         >         nobody wants to do it,
> >         >
> >         > Give me the keys and I'll do it.
> >
> >
> >         You don't need keys. You need a wiki replacement. You need to
> >         do the work to create a replacement for wiki.sl.o. Then the
> >         DNS can be changed.  It's super-easy to say "let's do it" and
> >         super-hard to actually do it. Put your wiki where your mouth
> >         is :).
> >
> >
> > https://github.com/sugarlabs/www-sugarlabs is the replacement.
> >
> >
>
> Hi all,
>
> It seems this conversation has gone a long way from wiki gardening :)
>
> My feeling is that the wiki does not serve _New_to_Sugar_ users well.
>
> Moreover as there is a lack of reliable first steps information, new
> content cannot be written referring back to such.
>
> In general, I believe we need more content with screen shots aimed at
> _New_to_Sugar_ users, but they would be better delivered via slide show
> than scrolling pages.
>
> New to Jekyll, I did not work out how to do a slide show in Jekyll and
> Markdown. Can anyone point to a site that does this successfully?
>
> So I just ploughed on and generated content using Remark[1].
>
> An alternative Sphinx-based, slide show effort is used in SoaS
> Loader[2], but the product became over-weight in detail.
>
> I am submitting, again, my concept of a gallery[3] by way of
> conversation.
>
> Apropos wiki gardening, are there any views on what else is wrong with
> the wiki?
>
> One serious problem is that using "Search" button indicates material
> which may be obsolete but unmarked as such.
>
> Regards,
>
> Iain
>
> [1] http://remarkjs.com
> [2] http://soas-loader.readthedocs.org
> [3] http://inkyfingers.github.io/gallery/
>
>
> > Once https://github.com/sugarlabs/www-sugarlabs/pull/19 is merged,
> > I'll ask systems@ to create two A records that point the sugarlabs.org
> > domain to 192.30.252.153 and 192.30.252.154, per
> > https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-an-apex-domain/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Cheers
> > Dave
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Walter Bender
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