MES FAQs - COORDINATION THREAD FOR WRITING FAQs

[KernelPanic]

You could give the german windows users directions to a cliff to jump off  

[foobar]

Funny - was talking PM with Calum just about this thing, that we should have a FAQ for people that think that we are right about M$, and want to change
OS.
He pointed me here, and i just want to say i'm volenteer for any Dutch translation ... just PM me !

[Calum]

might i just say, if anybody is working on some FAQ or translation, by all means, arrange it via PMs, but do remember to announce evrything in this thread, so we do not reinvent the wheel.

so far, i commited to doing FAQs about using LiLo and about 'what's the difference between open source, GPL and whatever microsoft uses?' also. Any other contributors to these FAQs, as i say, PM me.

f00bar, i will PM you once these FAQs are under way.

[rtgwbmsr]

Sherlock 3 has a pretty good English to German translator. And for that matter an English to every commonly spoken langauge on the planet translator.

[KernelPanic]

verstanden calum

EDIT - cant spell calum

[ September 16, 2002: Message edited by: Tux ]

[Calum]

but does Sherlock 3 post on this board?  

maybe we can get him to help us write the FAQ?  

[rtgwbmsr]

Umm...someone with Sherlock 3 copies the FAQ into one field, pushes the translate button, and copies the translated version into a document or e-mail.

It's not that hard, really!  

[Calum]

okay, folks UPDATE -

I will be going offline soon for the rest of the evening, so in order that this FAQ effort can be coordinated coherently, i thought i would upload this document:

http://members.lycos.co.uk/faqfuckmicrosoft/who.txt

Now, if you want to write a faq, what i propose is, go to that url and see if anybody is already doing one. if they are, get in touch with them.

If nobody is, then edit that document to include your own name and upload it. if you want the details for uploading to that site, then PM any of the mods, i posted full details in the private forum, so they all have access to them.

If we all keep this document at http://members.lycos.co.uk/faqfuckmicrosoft/who.txt current, then we will stay coordinated.

Okay, go for it!

[Master of Reality]

there is now a todo.txt in the root folder too. This will contain questions to do... so far there is only one that i added.

[psyjax]

Hey, gosh I'm behind.

I haven't  been to frequent on the forums lately and am new to this FAQ thing! I think it's a terrific Idea!

Where can post question suggestions? I would like to contribute some stuff on the MacOS.

[voidmain]

I don't think they are at the point yet of actually adding content. Still trying to work out the framework/methodology. But you could always start writing stuff and add it when they are ready.. They are trying to make it so the FAQ is dynamic but worst case scenerio is it could also be static and updated manually.

[Calum]

email muffin man, he is coordinating the mac stuff.

for anybody who wants to get involved, go to http://members.lycos.co.uk/faqfuckmicrosoft/who.txt and get in touch with some of the people there. that address points to our test site which has php and mysql, and if you want, email one of those people for the login details as well.

[foobar]

Should there be a different document for the Dutch translation ? I'm gonna get right on translating that who.txt document, but have no clue where to put it ... could i PM it to you, Calum ?

[rtgwbmsr]

Psyjax: My e-mail address is listed here http://members.lycos.co.uk/faqfuckmicrosoft/who.txt

Any submssions would be most welcome!

Thanks,
Dustin

[Calum]

f00bar, email somebody on the who list to get the login details for the test site, then upload your translated documents there... not me though, as i am off to watch tv now!