[documentation] Babies, Spoons, Food and Funny Faces

[Gunnar Langemark]

I really agree with Dries (While not really disagreeing with Charlie) - 
The first Drupal installation is the first and most important barrier to 
entry. The easier this is - the better the user experience. When people 
have a good and satisfying first install - my guess is that we will have 
happy users and less "drupal sucks" crap in the "web-ether".
Aiming the gun at newbies is good.

I presently do some work on a very basic scaled down Drupal install. I 
can tell you that setting up and configuring a drupal for bloggers - 
with the leanest set of features possible - took me hours of work, and I 
have installed dozens (if not hundreds) of drupals and can do it in my 
sleep. I knew exactly what to do - but there were more than 30 steps I 
think. This I tell to remind you all that it is the standard install 
that is the simplest, but to be able to use it - there's some 
configuration to do - some of which is taxonomy configuration. And we 
all know how "easy" that is to do (what about a "demo" taxonomy with 5 
categories in it - for newbies?).

Best
Gunnar

Dries Buytaert wrote:
>> Ditto. Thanks to Themacgeek for expressing interest in this and you 
>> are so right, Gunnar. Good training materials would be a big plus. 
>> The problem, though, is that there is a limit to what one can 
>> accomplish with generalized training videos (and other documentation 
>> as well). Drupal has so many possiblities for configuring and setting 
>> up a site that as one moves past the base installation and few basic 
>> settings, the documentation/training system would grow exponentially 
>> in size/quantity.
>
> While that is true, there are many aspects that 90% of the users need 
> or want to do regardless of their site's profile or purpose.  Examples 
> include: