Re: [Plug] what do people want out of plug talks

["Nicolai Rosen" <laktar@hotmail.com>]

Well I think a lot of documentation is poor from a beginning user 
standpoint. A beginner needs a kind of overview that says here's the 
software, here's what it does, here's how to do some common and usefull 
things. Very few relatively complex systems have this kind of thing in place 
(at least in my experience) or they're not easily accessable. I think these 
talks do that and also provide a forum for quickly asking questions and 
getting responses without having to search through documentation. They also 
give people a place to start in order to learn more.

> From: Darxus <darxus@op.net>
>
> I'm still trying to get a grasp of what it is that people want to get out
> of these talks.  These are my guesses:
>
> People who are totally unfamiliar with the subject:
> I think these people want "look this is easy, this is all you have to do,
> and this is why you want to do it".
>
> People who have some familiarity with the subject:
> For these people, I think the goal should be to get them to realize
> something new that they were unaware of, and make them want to try it.
>
> So basically, I think you want to get people interested in the subject
> enough that they will then go read the fucking manual themselves, and
> start learning on their own (or learn more about new aspects of the
> subject on their own).
>
>
> So.. what do you guys think ?
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