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Where Can You Post Your Technical Experiences?

Posted by Cliff on from the sharing-your-knowledge dept.

Dishwasha asks: "For the past several months I have spent an inordinate amount of time wrestling with video conferencing. The compatibility issues between different video conferencing equipment and network hardware are enough to make a seasoned network administrator pull their hair out. When it comes down to it, there's not a lot of good documentation on how to actually implement video conferencing. I'd like to help other people save time by sharing my experiences, but I don't have the time or resources to maintain what would ultimately be just a few unorganized web pages. Has anybody set up a website and/or forum for submitting general HOWTO's? I'd envision something similar to Linuxdoc but categorized by technology and moderated."

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  1. What you are proposing is tough to achieve by prostoalex · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Since you're looking for a more or less generalized database of human knowledge. Even a categorized database of computer knowledge would be extremely broad and informative.

    The modest solution with modern-day technology is still quite basic:
    1) Create an HTML page describing your experience.
    2) Use keywords and clear title so that people will find you.
    3) Submit to Google.
    4) Submit to some sites that cover the topics specific to your case. Most of the online publications will gladly accept free content, if it matches their topic.

  2. Re:Blog ! by BrynM · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Or just use your Slashdot Journal and let Slashdot Slashdot itself.

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  3. Use Usenet/Google Groups as your data repository! by DaveJay · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I recommend posting (via Google or whatever means you find appropriate) a detailed and well-written summary of the problem and your solution, with keywords.

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    I did this over a year ago after banging my head against a wall for weeks getting my Gateway FDP1500 LCD monitor to work with my GeForce MX DVI card under Linux.

    I stumbled across a solution that someone had posted to a mailing list, but the site had been taken offline, so the only copy available was from Google's cache. Luckily, I saved a local version of the cached page, because a short time later the information no longer came up on google search at all.

    Determined to keep this information out there for others to see (and because I knew I'd lose my copy sooner or later) I wrote a short how-to article with the necessary monitor specs and XF86-Config settings, then submitted it to comp.os.linux.setup via Google Groups.

    Just this month, I discovered that Suse (like most other distributions, Knoppix being a notable exception) still doesn't configure X properly with this monitor, and my personal copy of the info was long gone. So I searched on Google Groups for "Gateway FPD1500", and up came my posting: "Gateway FPD1500 LCD Monitor -- how to make it work under Linux."

    - - -

    The key here is to post your article in the appropriate newsgroup, and make your article stand out from the normal, casual conversation by making it highly informative, well-written and searchable (be descriptive and detailed in your subject line and body copy). This way, it's a genuine contribution to the appropriate newsgroup, rather than something that nobody but you will appreciate or be able to find.