User manual - anywhere?

[michaelg]

Can someone please tell me if there is a user manual and or help file somewhere - I hate doing a job twice.

[jondaley]

The only official one is wiki.lifetype.net. Various users have started their own "more user friendly" version a couple of times, but generally they disappear without ever getting much written.

[michaelg]

Sounds like a job for International Rescue - Can we pay someone to do this job?

Any takers? make me an offer - I will pay and we will make it available for everyone to download.

[phunkphorce]

what's "international rescue"?

[michaelg]

Thunderbirds are go .. my friend - Must be a UK thing.

Visit http://www.thunderbirdsonline.com for more infornmation

[reto]

Hi michaelg

With our recent redesign of structure and layout, we prepared the wiki for a user manual. we have already started a small "LifeType Documentation Team" within the core team. This basically means, more consistency within structure and content, but does not garantee a user manual within x weeks. We work on it if we feel like spending some time for it. Although we see the urgent need for a nice user manual.

any help is apreciated, you may contact me or post here.

[michaelg]

Can I countribute $$$ to make this happen quicker - get someone in the team to focus on the document. It's a good product and the user document is best written by the team - you guys know more about the application than anyone else and it will take you less time.

The $$$ is just an incentive for the time spent.

Any takers?

[reto]

Well, thank you very much for your offer. Do you have a milestone set for a somewhat finished manual? As I cannot guarantee to finish something within x weeks I wouldn't dare taking your offer. But maybe someone else is taking the task - anyone???

Two thoughts:

1. The Team would be very happy to get donations. You may "bind" your donation to documentational work... We are planning our first Team meeting this summer for brainstorming and taking the project "to the next level"

2. maybe we should start with a bounty service, what do you (Team!) think? (https://www.bountysource.com/) - or any sort of technical/handmade implementation of the bounty system...

[michaelg]

Timescales - As soon as possible - like 2 weeks?

[jondaley]

Two weeks seems short to me, and I would guess reto would be the most likely to get it done, so if he can't...

[Nomad]

I've actually been doing some work on the basic settings lately. No where near ready though I have a few screen shots sorted. I did sort of get some very bsic howto started here http://blogirelandie-notice-board.blogi ... gory/24/52 and I was going to start updating this with screen shots - Wish I could do flash or the likes, then I could do small tutorial movies.

Anyway with looking after the main system and other work I haven't had much time to finish anything really constructive. Maybe after I get the system fixed and stable I would have time but two weeks to complete? I could possibly get something very basic together in that time but it would be basic.

Suppose though if that is just for the general every day user - thats an option. - i.e. do this, do that etc u can pm me and I'd be willing to look at it. I know pretty much how most of the admin functions/plug ins work...

A more advanced user manual could then be developed for sys admins but most of these guys pick there info up at the wiki - I tend to live there most of the time lol