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Incidentally I was NOT calling for "a whole new content tool" to be created.

I was just asking for something that is laid out like the current existing Downloads page to be set up, and used as a way to organise pages with videos on.

Whatever technology that uses doesn't matter, whether it's wiki-based or whatever, as long as it looks and behaves identically to the current Downloads section, and as long as it cannot be edited by anyone but the admins.

To use an analogy the current Wiki is more like a library, whereas what I'm calling for is like a series of lessons. The clue is in the name, Maemo School.

Imagine you went to a school to learn something new and they just plonked a load of text books on the table on the assumption that there's lots of useful information in them, so that must be the same thing as a lesson.

I just don't get why there couldn't be a separate Maemo School in one part of the site, and a separate Maemo Wiki in another part. Why the heck should they be merged when they're serving two totally different purposes?

This idea that it would take lots of work to set up a Maemo School section is total bulls..t. I've already set up a video tutorial site and the actual page setup takes no time at all. I can't believe the CMS on maemo.org would make it challenging to basically just clone the existing Downloads front end.

And don't talk to me about wasting the time of "paid employees".

It's the videos that take 95% of the time to do on a Tablet School style site, and if I'm willing to put my UNPAID time to doing the videos, the least I could expect from the maemo.org is that they can do the remaining 5%.

If I did do these videos for maemo.org there wouldn't even be any adsense ads to earn me a few pennies. I would be doing the work free, gratis, for nothing. But apparently no good deed goes unpunished.

Last edited by krisse; 2009-05-02 at 12:19.
 

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