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Re: Maemo5 101, Maemo Basics, New Users: what's the difference?

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Originally Posted by dneary (Post 375044)

Can you point me to the thread, by any chance?
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Dave.

It might be the one I pushed in http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=373874&postcount=5

S

PS Texrat, you're right. Damn, I hate it when other people are right ;) The OS should in fact come first because you never know what devices might run it. Still, a pointer that says - if you have an N1000 go here - for instance (tags on pages?) might just cover my initial concern.

Re: Maemo5 101, Maemo Basics, New Users: what's the difference?

I really believe that first we need to agree on the Intro page, and then scale down to the "introductory" pages deriving from this one.

You can more or less start from the last post at http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=33577 since I left a "radical" post this morning. Radical only because I try to go to the root of the problem to solve.

Re: Maemo5 101, Maemo Basics, New Users: what's the difference?

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Originally Posted by qgil (Post 375159)

Or even, ideally, if there is agreement that the introductory pages in the wiki are better than the "Intro" section, then just use those & have all links from there go into the wiki directly.

maemo.org/intro still needs to cater to developers - but if we can have a big red button with a label "Developers and über-geeks go here!" which brings them somewhere else, that might do.

But to me it's important for a new user coming to maemo.org to know in the intro that this is a community project, and be pointed to places where they can join in and listen to the conversation also.

I'll bring all that to the other thread...

Dave.

Re: Maemo5 101, Maemo Basics, New Users: what's the difference?

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Originally Posted by dneary (Post 373727)

Hi all,

Can someone perhaps explain to me what the difference (to the reader) is between the pages "Maemo5 101", "New users" and "Maemo basics"? The all appear to be addressing the same basic need: how do I get started with my device?

Perhaps I'm missing something, though - which is why I'm asking here. It seems like providing too many front doors into the house is almost as bad as providing none - especially if behind each door you have a slightly different room.

Shouldn't these pages be consolidated? I'd prefer to consolidate them into a page called "Getting started" since I like page titles that talk about what the user wants to do, rather than the type of person the page is aimed for, or what the content of the page is.

Dave.

As I outlined here I suggest to put the topics of Maemo5_101 in their own entries:

One covering video howtos
One covering shortcuts