Re: [Inkscape-devel] User Help (tutorials)

Holy crap, I miss checking my email for 1 day, and suddenly there are 50 messages waiting on the dev list! I wonder if my mail got delayed for some reason....they are dated over 2 or 3 days.... So I'm getting late to this discussion. I guess it sounds like people are ready to do this! (sorry, kind of long) I'm of the opinion that there is no lack of tutorials in the Inkscape community. I've done some both intensive and extensive searching for Inkscape tutorials, to compile a centralized source of tutorials, for the community (something I saw lacking in the community, and wanted to provide). http://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php I've reviewed every tutorial listed on that page (at last count, over 300, but now probably closer to 400). I only wanted to list tutorials that I found provided correct information about inkscape, in an understandable format, and worthwhile for anyone taking the time to follow. (Note that tutorials on proprietary sites (such as vector tuts) are not included, because I didn't want to hassle with potential ToU conflicts. So those are all "independent" tutorials.) So I'm bewildered with complaints of people not being able to find tutorials. I did that all with my handy internet search engine. Nothing fancy, I can assure you! I wonder if maybe those folks just have not ventured outside of DA, in their search? Nevertheless, I do think it's important that there are "official" tutorials. There was some talk a few months ago about building a Documentation team, and I would certainly look forward to participating in such a group (although iirc, it was only going to happen when someone had more time.....I don't remember the exact details anymore). I think more *official* tutorials are needed, than the 6 or so currently available. But I have serious reservations about video tutorials with music background and no narration. I have never seen such a video that I found was helpful, in my opinion. (You may notice there are probably less than 5 YouTube vids on my page. It's because I haven't found many worthwhile, that aren't connected to a proprietary venture.) Videos from the Screencasters (heathenx/Richard Querrin) series are still the best video tutorials around, imo (even though now somewhat dated). I think they represent the standard we should strive for, if there is some consensus that video tutorials are needed more that text tutorials. Although I haven't seen any indication of a need for video tutorials, more than text. It's just trendy, afaict. That sounds like a cute idea for an intro to the tutorials (the bouncing bubbles, etc.), but honestly, that's the fun part of making tutorials. Has anyone volunteered to make the actual tutorial part of the videos? (I haven't finished with reading the whole thread yet.) So those are just my thoughts, up until the 1st day this was discussed. Thanks for listening, brynn -------------------------------------------------- From: "Martin Owens" <doctormo@...400...> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 7:53 AM To: "Inkscape Devel List" <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net&gt; Subject: [Inkscape-devel] User Help (tutorials)