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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Your Favorite Tech Support Web Sites and Why? Post 303024080 by hicksd8 on Friday 28th of September 2018 01:07:18 PM
Old 09-28-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by Neo
Was on the phone last night with a friend and his idea about this topic was:

(1) Create a nice, unique badging system.

(2) Create video tutorials and feature them.

After thinking about this, I agree with (2) for sure.

For me and most all other people I know, we get our new tech information from YouTube tutorials. Personally, anytime I want to learn some new tech, I immediately go to YouTube and find great tutorials on all the latest and greatest tech.
I've mentioned the 'L' word (library) before but let me solicit other peoples views on this because I haven't thought it through thoroughly. So this post might get long; I don't know. I'm just going to bash some keys as the thoughts come out of my head. Many of you may think this is rubbish, but here goes.

How about setting up a library on this site that only members can access, therefore you must sign up if someone tells you that it contains good stuff. Yes, there would be videos in the library but in addition:

Regular pdf's relevant to FAQ's

Scripting tutorials

Official owners/service manuals (Copyright acknowledged, and yes, manufacturers could ask us to take them down but if their competition is on here, do they wish to be excluded?)

Other manufacturers guides/material for e.g. SAN's, NAS's, connectivity guides, how to's?

Tutorials written by forum staff

Research papers/teaching material (Copyrights acknowledged e.g. college material)

Consulting papers - which product is best? Gartner and the like as it enhances their image.



To catalogue this lot would require tagging/classification to allow members to find what they are looking for.

As far as possible, the library would be unbiased.

New members are often too timid to ask a 'stupid question' but would use a library.

Could we afford the disk space on the site to launch something like this???

Now the commercial stuff:

We could get into charging (bits, cash or gold bars) for some downloads.
We could get some manufacturers willing to pay for advertising linked to their library content.
Authors could charge for their tutorials

Would any manufacturer ask for their stuff to be taken down when their competition doesn't?

I know that I've uploaded 'connectivity guides' as attachments when members have asked really involved SAN questions.

In summary: Video could be just one medium in a library.

Here's a live example:
I need a recent book about CUPS - can someone recommend me one?
 

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Bio::Biblio::TechReport(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			      Bio::Biblio::TechReport(3pm)

NAME
Bio::Biblio::TechReport - Representation of a technical report SYNOPSIS
$obj = Bio::Biblio::TechReport->new (-authors => [ Bio::Biblio::Person->new(-lastname => 'Hasek'), Bio::Biblio::Person->new(-lastname => 'Jagr'), Bio::Biblio::Organisation->new(-name => 'NHL'), ] -title => 'Pinned in the corner'); DESCRIPTION
A storage object for a technical report. See its place in the class hierarchy in http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~senger/openbqs/images/bibobjects_perl.gif Attributes There are no specific attributes in this class (however, you can set and get all attributes defined in the parent classes). SEE ALSO
o OpenBQS home page: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~senger/openbqs/ o Comments to the Perl client: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~senger/openbqs/Client_perl.html FEEDBACK
Mailing Lists User feedback is an integral part of the evolution of this and other Bioperl modules. Send your comments and suggestions preferably to the Bioperl mailing list. Your participation is much appreciated. bioperl-l@bioperl.org - General discussion http://bioperl.org/wiki/Mailing_lists - About the mailing lists Support Please direct usage questions or support issues to the mailing list: bioperl-l@bioperl.org rather than to the module maintainer directly. Many experienced and reponsive experts will be able look at the problem and quickly address it. Please include a thorough description of the problem with code and data examples if at all possible. Reporting Bugs Report bugs to the Bioperl bug tracking system to help us keep track of the bugs and their resolution. Bug reports can be submitted via the web: https://redmine.open-bio.org/projects/bioperl/ AUTHORS
Heikki Lehvaslaiho (heikki-at-bioperl-dot-org), Martin Senger (senger@ebi.ac.uk) COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2002 European Bioinformatics Institute. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. DISCLAIMER
This software is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. perl v5.14.2 2012-03-02 Bio::Biblio::TechReport(3pm)
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