[documentation] Hitchhikers guide to Drupal

[Steven Peck]

As is, the page is not phrased well, but the ideas have been an ingrained part of the open source community for 10-15 years now.  It still needs to be written, though phrased a bit differently.  People coming in from a different venue are not familier with this but people with a technical background are.  It is time for us to put up some philosophy content now I suspose.  There is no reason you cannot write your own hitchikers guide to include to educate the technical .  
 
In any case, how will a seperate community operate differently?  This new community will depend on the generosity of it's community members too.  There are a number of us who don't code who still contribute.  If the only solution is a newbies forum, then I would rather have that then a seperate site. 
 
See my other post for the rest.
 
 
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From: documentation-bounces at drupal.org on behalf of Kim P. Werker
Sent: Thu 1/5/2006 9:23 PM
To: A list for documentation writers
Subject: Re: [documentation] Hitchhikers guide to Drupal



On 5-Jan-06, at 6:35 PM, Charlie Lowe wrote:

> This for no other reason than the difference in who would feel 
> empowered to speak and contribute in such a community.


Now I get where the Hitchhikers page fits in. I still think posting 
it is a bad idea, but I definitely think I would have benefited 11 
weeks ago from a page that told me that drupal.org is a developer-
centered community that depends on an open source behaviour code (if 
you will), and only provides user support based on the generosity and/
or professional services of community members.

Cheers,
Kim
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