Re: Guix website

[Ludovic Courtès]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 03:17:01PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
>> 
>> > Yes, I personally hate watching videos and listening to podcasts. I only
>> > do it when there is no transcript and I am on a long bus or train ride
>> > and can't concentrate on working. I personally found that video to be a
>> > very good explanation of the problems addressed by Guix and the
>> > solutions offered. As well as the newer video you mentioned.
>> >
>> > A transcript next to slides [0] can be read in less time than 45
>> > minutes. It can also be skimmed, searched, and anchor-linked.
>> 
>> I agree.  If someone volunteers to write transcripts of the available
>> videos, we could put them online (but obviously that’s quite a bit of
>> work!).
>> 
>> > A number of the ...unusual questions people have asked about Guix
>> > demonstrate a near total lack of knowledge about the project's goals and
>> > design. We need an overview like that provided by the videos. The manual
>> > is more of a "how-to".
>> 
>> The liberating, dependable, and hackable items on the front page link to
>> overviews in the manual, notably the “Features” node.  Maybe a good
>> start would be to improve them?
>> 
>> > I also liked some blog posts by Andy Wingo and Christopher Allan Webber,
>> > although those posts don't explain "the whole picture".
>> 
>> Agreed, blog posts like these and those of David and Ricardo are very
>> nice, because they show concrete use cases.
>> 
>> They’re also useful for someone knowledgeable about the project because
>> they clearly show parts that are confused, badly documented, or that
>> somehow fail to address the problems people are having.
>> 
>> I would invite the bloggers among us to do more of these.  :-)
>
> How about linking these blog posts from the site? That could be a good
> way to catch the attention of new visitors.

I guess that would amount to some sort of a “Planet Guix” aggregator.
In the meantime, it’s probably easier for regular Guix bloggers to have
their thing registered on planet.gnu.org.

Ludo’.