From: Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
CC: "Michael Fothergill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: software for making a web site......
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:57:36 -0500
On Monday 15 January 2007 17:31, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear Debianists,
>
> I have been wondering about making a web site where I could offer
> people help installing Fedora on their PCs.....
There are MANY sites to help people installing any distro of Linux on
their computers. While this is an admirable idea, consider the amount
of effort it would take to create a web site, host it, and maintain it.
Wouldn't it be more effective to use that effort to directly help
others in forums and on mailing lists and on other sites that already
do this?
That is not quite what I meant. Contributing to these sites is helpful but
it is not quite what I had in mind. When I first installed Linux o a PC, it
was Red Hat 6.2 and I had telephone support from a Red Hat engineer. This
was a great help at the time.
What I am interested to do (in theory) is to offer telephone consultancy in
the same way, but at a lower cost than e.g. Red Hat.
I would use a phone line that charges the fee......
So it would not be free. But based on my experience for people new to Linux
it would be helpful in combination with getting help from user groups and
web sites.
When I got the telephone support it was incredibly effective. The guy
anticipated every aspect of the installation and it went like a breeze.
For a complete newbie it would be the equivalent of several hours and even
days of submitting queries on user groups and reading manuals.....
The idea would be to "jump start" them in a fair way.
Comments appreciated.
Regards
Michael Fothergill
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