[Gimp-web] Flash Tutorials

[Carol Spears]

On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 05:28:14AM +1000, Jan Smith wrote:
> Hi Carol et al,
> 
> I am sorry my Flash Tutorials have been offensive.  That was not their 
> intention.  Flash tutorials are certainly NOT intended to replace 
> written documentation.  I decided to make a couple of Flash Tutorials 
> after a deal of thought.
> 
i am wondering if maybe other projects would like your thought and
contribution in a similar fashion.

> I am a volunteer at Computerbank in Melbourne, Australia.  We have 
> distributed over 1600  recycled computers with a Linux operating system 
> and the GIMP, Open Office, Flash Player etc. included.  We give these 
> computers to people on low incomes - single parent families, newly 
> arrived migrants, asylum seekers, pensioners, students, ex prisioners 
> etc.  I regularly observe people new to computers taking their first 
> tentative steps in our free training sessions.  Many  people in our 
> sessions have a poor grasp of English, they learn by observing the steps 
> we run through.  In the same vein a short Flash tutorial helps where 
> words fail.
> 
the nice thing about providing Flash Player is that the free software
doesn't get any money at all and the sites that use flash for
advertising get their advertisements provided on these computers.

did you also distribute the flash block plug-in with the browsers?

it certainly is nice that you are providing for such a list of people.
however, one of the nice things about only providing non-propietary
software is that you also do not provide a lot of stuff like those
advertisements.  flash is an option on my computer.  i rarely use the
option since rarely is the content of those files worth the time and as
it is pointed out, if it does contain helpful information -- it does not
contain it in a useful way.

also, do you mind if i rearrage your project?

you sound successful at things.  perhaps i should just start rearranging
the things you are doing.  i promise to think a lot about it first.

carol