[Hamara-devel] What do people think about writing dummies books for schools and everyone ?

[Amardeep Singh]

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On Monday 08 June 2015 09:26 PM, shirish wrote:
> Hi all,
> Few days ago, a friend of mine asked me about how she could connect 
> with me. While sharing some of the resources on the web, I 
> inadvertently also shared with her the term IRC. She was intrigued by 
> the name and asked me for some more details.
>
> I mistakenly shared with her the wikipedia page about IRC
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat
>
> If you look at the wikipedia article it's written by geeks for geeks, 
> the social equity and social nature of the network is just glossed over.
>
> I searched quite a bit trying to finding a 'dummies' guide for her and 
> ended up pretty disappointed.
>
> Looked up on Amazon to find disgusting prices for the same.
>
> http://www.amazon.in/Book-IRC-Ultimate-Guide-Internet/dp/1886411298
>
> http://www.amazon.in/IRC-Hacks-Industrial-Strength-Tips-Tools-ebook/dp/B00947EXTE/ 
>
>
> I also looked up various blog posts but found them to be more on the 
> technical side of things rather than share the social history as well 
> as give a funny (or even if not funny) a simple easy guide to set up 
> IRC using free software of their choice.
>
> If you do not know the dummies books, here are couple of links about 
> that.
>
> http://www.amazon.in/Beginning-HTML5-CSS3-Dummies-Tittel-ebook/dp/B00FWZOMUC/ 
>
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Dummies
>
> I really hope we do think in those terms as well. That would be a real 
> service to the community while also serving our interests as well.
>
> We might not use the same design, but there are lots in the dummies 
> books as to how to give information to a user in small dosages and 
> have him/her use it.
>
> Look forward to feedback.
Seems valid point and good idea but we should park it for now, until we 
start bringing products in market. We can then link this sort of stuff 
and sell at very cheap price or depending upon free as well.

Thanks,
Amardeep