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

[shirish]

addition at bottom :-

On 06/08/2015 09:27 PM, Amardeep Singh wrote:
> at bottom:-
>
> 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

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Agree with you on the above I did not mean that we start producing such 
books or content now, just sharing that lot of content in Computer 
science has been made unnecessarily difficult than it needs to be. It 
could be the same in other fields of endeavour as well but I can share 
about Computer Science as I know a bit about it.

For instance, Information security, Web security topics are again have 
been made so complex. While I agree that the mathematical algorithm on 
which ciphers and such softwares are based are complex and is somewhat 
of a rocket science, On a conceptual level many of the topics could be 
broken into simple ideas and understandings taken via everyday analogies.

It is one of the reasons why India lags so much in security because 
awareness of security is so much less. I do know there are lot of other 
factors as well but just trying to get that point across.

I am trying to define niches (actually both are mainstream topics) where 
hamara could make a good mark.

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org