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From: mark@drd.UUCP (Mark Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X Novice Proposal
Keywords: efficiently handling novices
Message-ID: <264@drd.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 88 17:09:52 GMT
Reply-To: mark@drd.UUCP (Mark Lawrence)
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I've seen a few requests lately from self-identified novices essentially 
requesting X mentor pen-pals as they struggle with X in the interest of
conserving network bandwidth and preserving S/N ratio.  I am in that
same boat and this post represents a 'me too' request.  I am at the
point of using widgets to create simple composite widgets and such but am still
treating some aspects of X as black box and would like to know more.  It
would really be beneficial and efficient for me if someone would would permit 
me to fire off single question notes and questions to them which could be 
answered on short turn-around.

The point is that I am just the tip of the iceberg.  My company has
decided fairly early on that X windows is the way to go NOW (not
sometime in the future) and is committed to developing some applications
now, therfore I am up to my neck in X application development _now_. I think 
that we are atypical as far as small software vendors go and that as 
X-Windows matures and becomes more generally used in the next two years, 
this group is going to see a veritable flood of novice X window application 
software types joining the newsgroup and inundating it with novice-type 
questions.  I wonder if it wouldn't behoove us to establish a pool of X 
window guru volunteers to take novices under their electronic wing to handle 
the questions about fundamentals that are bound to arise?   I would gladly
volunteer in about 6-9 mos time after having enough experience with the 
software to be _able_ to answer fundamental questions.

This group is pretty good reading now because of the authoritative
sources who read it and because of the meaty questions and answers
posted in it.  I'm for keeping it that way.  Perhaps we should do the
atypical thing (for USENET) and anticipate the future flood with
preparation and procedure now.

			Mark



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