Re: [Paparazzi-devel] Offer from a thankful new user

[Nathan Aherne]

Hi Cedric,

This is a good point

If you read through  the posts you will notice that many people offered to
make new forums, new wikis, etc. They put some time into putting it online
and...nobody used it...

What I was proposing and asking the community was do you want this for Paparazzi? I did not want to build something and own it, I was offering to build something for the community to own for example paparazziap.com. I envisaged that it would have a welcome page which gave a short summary about Paparazzi, a news section, and knowledge base (wiki) section etc etc.

When you look at the interwebs the number of people saying Paparazzi is too hard to use is phenomenal. This is bad advertising for the project and stops people from joining the community. There are also many posts where people started to learn about Paparazzi and then gave up because they were overwhelmed or because it seemed too hard. This is not their fault, its the Paparazzi communities fault - maybe you will disagree (I am sure many will) but if its an open source community project then the bigger the community the more open it is.

Kindest regards,

 

Nathan Aherne

Reddog Technology

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On 03/05/2010, at 7:17 PM, Cédric Marzer wrote:

Dear Nathan,
If you read through  the posts you will notice that many people offered to
make new forums, new wikis, etc. They put some time into putting it online
and...nobody used it...
The system as it is now has its weaknesses but works very well and all the
information can be found at one place.
Yes the learning curve is steep but we are not talking about a wordprocessor
here but about a system that is much more complex in essence.
Actually I found it rather easy to make it work in comparaison with systems
I used before and it flew ok the first time I was in the air. You just have
to read carefully the wiki and understand what you are doing.
To make it short : the people that have experience with the paparazzi like
it and the idea is not to offer a "plug and play" system anyway...
Good luck with your system and don't hesitate to post any question if you
need.




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