[asterisk-users] RFC -- Improving the quality of the mailing lists

[Jai Rangi]

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I understand. As someone else already mentioned, Voip-Info.org is for more
than just Asterisk. Perhaps if we created a single source that was just for
Asterisk...where everyone could contribute towards making the documentation
better. I would be very interested in helping sponsoring such a project,
just so long as we have enough contributors.
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We have some documentation and I can contribute that. Also we can provide
the physical resources (Domain, Web hosting, bandwidth, storage, database
etc). Ofcourse need a team with designated responsibilities.

-Jai Rangi
www.didforsale.com



On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Robert Broyles <robert at poornam.com> wrote:

>  Jared Smith wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 10:13 -0700, Robert Broyles wrote:
>
>
>  I'm still pretty new to the mailing lists myself. I don't consider
> myself a novice Asterisk user, but one of my biggest 'complaints' is
> the lack of a well documented FAQ or Manual for Asterisk.
>
>
>  Asterisk is truly an open-source community, and that pertains to
> documentation as well.  The quality and quantity of the documentation
> depends heavily on contribution from the community at large.  Digium has
> and will continue to put resources towards Asterisk documentation, but
> every contribution from the community at large helps.
>
>
>
>  I understand. As someone else already mentioned, Voip-Info.org is for more
> than just Asterisk. Perhaps if we created a single source that was just for
> Asterisk...where everyone could contribute towards making the documentation
> better. I would be very interested in helping sponsoring such a project,
> just so long as we have enough contributors.
>
>  (Unless one is willing to buy or read O'Reilly's Book -http://www.asteriskdocs.org - which quickly will be outdated again.)
>
>
>  Alas, you've mentioned the one thing that both makes me happy and sad at
> the same time.  Happy that people find it useful, and that O'Reilly was
> kind enough to let us publish it under a Creative Commons license (and
> put the PDF on the web for free!)... and sad that it takes so much time
> and effort to keep up to date.  (And just for the record, the time that
> the other authors and I spend on writing the O'Reilly book is our own
> personal time -- I'm not working on it during company time!)
>
>
>
>  This was an excellent read. I'm sad to say that I was one that didn't
> purchase the book, but made good use of the PDF. I was hoping to win one of
> the books during your sessions at AstriCon this past year.  Too bad. :-(
>
>   I have made it a personal aim to document all my findings in a blog,
> so that it's at least searchable by others through Google, in hopes
> that others might find it useful.
>
> But if we had a REGULARLY updated FAQ/Manual ... I think that would
> greatly cut down on the clutter posts.
>
>
>  If you're interested and serious about writing, join the asterisk-docs
> mailing list and let's try to get something started.  I've been beating
> the documentation drum for almost seven years now, and I'd love to see
> the -docs mailing list come back to life.
>
>
>
>  I'll be checking this out.
>
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