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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] feature guide
From:       Carl Symons <carlsymons () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-12-13 17:15:49
Message-ID: 5f87e3160912130915j574dade1ydefa87037855d7e0 () mail ! gmail ! com
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> Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:22:56 +0100
> From: Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet@gmail.com>
> Subject: [kde-promo] feature guide
> To: KDE Promo <kde-promo@kde.org>
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> Hi all,
> 
> I'm working on the feature guide and feeling lonely. Who's up for helping me?
> 
> No, you don't have to be a great writer, really not. Acutally, it
> would already help if you'd go to one of the sections, look up all the
> features on the feature plan relevant for that section, group them
> logically and put them in the feature guide as a list. Then it just
> needs somebody to turn the list into text, and that's frankly not that
> hard.
> 
> Actually that could be your next step ;-)
> Again, not that hard. turn the individual points in a text by adding
> names & words like 'and' and 'cool' ;-)
> 
> If you're unsure if what you wrote is real english, others will munch
> it into shape ;-)
> 
> 
> 
> grtz and thanks!
> 
> Jos
> 

Thanks Jos

As you requested a while back, I took a look at the feature guide to
edit. From that perspective, there was not much to do...because there
was a lot of content to create.

Jos' scheme works well--identify features in a section, group, and
then list them. It would also be helpful after listing to provide
additional information about the feature--why it's a new (or featured)
feature, links, what it replaces. In essence, we want to "guide
[people] through the new features" (from the Guide Intro). It's an
informational piece, and promotional too. What may be obvious to you
as a longtime, knowledgeable user will probably not be so clear to
someone who is less invested, so please be explicit with descriptions
and benefits.

Don't worry about getting it just right. If you provide good content,
there are people who can make your words shine. Or as they say in the
Netherlands, munch it into shape.

Would people be willing to take on particular section content and put
their names after the respective section title?

Carl
 
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