[Wftl-lug] Tuxzine

[Christian Einfeldt]

hi,

I am kinda silly giddy happy to see people using the DTP wiki page for
TuxZine.  It just makes me feel like a kid in a candy store to see people
playing around with that toy.  I totally "get" the joy that Marcel must feel
from seeing people use his WFTL-LUG list and forum, etc., because it is
really a rush to see people going over to the DTP wiki TuxZine to make it
their own, to shape it they way that they want to shape it.  It's like
throwing a party and actually having guests show up.  It's sooooo much fun.

Which brings me back to a point that I made earlier:  I don't want to be a
hog.  If Marcel would later like to have a wiki and move the TuxZine to his
wiki, or if someone else would like to have TuxZine moved to their server,
I'm very happy with that, too.  But of course I'm also equally happy to see
people use the DTP wiki.  I just hope that you all are having as much fun as
I am!!!!

On 1/6/07, Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Since I have a particular passion for the command line, I took it upon
> myself to start editing the Tuxzine section on "An Introduction to the
> Command Line".


I think that this looks good, as do the sections for Choosing a Linux Distro
and What is Linux.  IMHO, we are eventually going to find that these
sections might grow, and at some point they might merit their own pages.
IMHO, it's important to be able to scan and search a resource to find
exactly what you are looking for.  As it it right now, our TuxZine front
page is good and scanable and readable, but if we grow that front page, we
might want to make it into more of a general greeting page as well as a
table of contents.

Also, the articles that we are generating so far are more in the fashion of
an encyclopedia kind of thing, which is great.  In other words, we are
generating articles that are more enduring in nature, and more along the
lines of a Wikipedia kind of thing, except for the fact that we are not
neutral, we are advocating Linux, which is a good thing of course.  So we
are filling a niche that Wikipedia does not fill, but IMHO, we are
eventually going to probably want to have a "how-to" section of the TuxZine,
and then maybe we are going to want to have more current events / topical
events / news kind of thing.  Maybe.  At least that is what I personally
associate with a magazine.  When I think of a magazine, I think of current
events.

But the beautiful thing about our open source TuxZine is that it doesn't
HAVE to any given thing.  It can be anything we want it to be.  We can
stretch, flex and change the notion of what a magazine is.
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