Re: the knowlegde base

[Jason Pincin <chardros@linuxkb.org>]

Hi Bent,

Thank you for your feedback.  We want it all, whatever kind it is.  I'm
getting the impression we should have been more clear.

1) I realise it's thin.  
2) It's an alpha-grade product
3) The community is going to need to build it

What is in there now is nothing more than existing documentation that has
been indexed by a modified ht://dig and categorized with our site's
categorizing system.  Nothing more.  Nothing less.

This is NOT the intention of the site.  While that aspect is a necissary
one, and will improve in it's effectiveness over time as documentation
standards become more wide-spread and "knowledge" can be more easily
usurpped from them... it's not the primary goal of the LinuxKB.

The primary goal of the linuxKB is to provide a tool to the community.
The tool will allow contribution of documents in a variety of ways, and
share that contributed information through standard means.  This toll will
be community managed.  The community will manage the tree, the content,
and everything within each.  This tool is to provide a way to find
information quickly.  It's very difficult to search existing documentation
in a super-efficient, super-accurate manner.  There's little commanality.
The Q&A approach of the KB strives to correct this.  

There's so much to talk about and I don't have enough time.  But I do
thank you for taking the time to comment, and I encourage you to stop back
somewhat frequently to watch our progress.  We're still under heavy
development and data collection.

Also, please remember when judging that this is an alpha release.  Purpose
of the release is that the underlying object code, etc has been completed
and enough forms were created using these pieces to start displaying how
things tie together.  For now, people should be looking more at what it
CAN do... rather than what it IS doing.

Thanks again,

-- 
Jason Pincin
Linux Knowledge Base Project Leader (http://www.linuxkb.org)
http://vodka.linuxkb.org/~chardros


On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 11:20:56PM +0100, Bent Mathiesen wrote:
> Hi there
> 
> A long time ago I heard about you guys the first time and though it was
> great what you wanted to do.
> 
> 
> But.... today, when I checked the status of your project, I find a
> knowledgebase, that is - let my put it this way - very thin.
> 
> I do not believe I would be able to use the base for gaining knowledge.
> 
> I'm sorry, but that is what I feel. Not even the simplest search for basic
> knowledge gave any hit.
> 
> Sincerely
> 
>   Bent Mathiesen
>