Re: [linuxiran] Linux teaching website

[Aryan Ameri]

On Sunday 08 August 2004 18:30, Gurban M. Tewekgeli wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I'm going to begin with the "Linux command line"
> > topic, but a vast number of other topics will
> > naturally be open, and I need volunteers to write
> > for them as well.
>
> I can write some articles about programming (gtk+),
> i18n, l10n, ... .

Very nice tread. It's encouraging to see some new faces, who seem to know what 
they are talking about, and also have the willpower to pull off something. I 
hope this whole effort leads somewhere. I am personally not able to 
contribute anything right now, maybe sometime in future.

But, here is my question, it seems the OP is designing a site and wants to 
WRITE persian Linux tutorials. Nice idea indeed, but my question is, why 
should we WRITE the tutorials? There are already thousands of good tutorials 
on the net, covering nearly every aspect of a Linux distribution. There is 
TLDP, with very highly technical and complete tutorials, mostly written by 
application developers themselves. If you are targeting beginner users, then 
I think we can take a look at Grokdoc (the sister of Groklaw) which is 
producing some very easy-to-understand tutorials. Others also exist, like the 
Linux CookBook (Debian-based, but still a very nice book) and many other Open 
Source tutorials and some Open Source books (The Bruce Perence Open Source 
series comes to mind).

The most important thing that I learned from Open Source Software, is not to 
reinvent the wheel. The whole evolution of science is made possible my 
building upon the works of others. I say, find some good tutorials, start 
translating them, and put them in a good and easy-to-navigate website, and 
voilà, you have made a great contribution. I don't feel excited about writing 
everything from scratch.


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Aryan Ameri