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Categories for the Free Resources section #19

Closed cobyism closed 12 years ago

cobyism commented 12 years ago

Earlier today, @matthewmccullough and I spoke about the sub-categories that will be under the "free resources" page, and this was the rough list that came up:

A few questions:

At the moment, I’ve got the following categories:

Are these categories sufficient? I feel like there may be other resources you guys have that weren’t listed that we should be factoring in here.

tlberglund commented 12 years ago

@cobyism I find that I don't do a good job thinking about categories early on in a process, which means all of this sounds great to me! I'll probably have re-organization ideas two months after we launch. :smile:

Right now, I do think any OSS'd presentations we have should have their own category, so I'd split that out of "more free resources" into its own thing.

As for other free Git books, there's Gettting Good with Git, but I'd be find if we just stuck with Pro Git as our free book link.

cobyism commented 12 years ago

Yeah, I’ve seen that book too, but I don’t think its free any more (see: http://marketplace.tutsplus.com/item/getting-good-with-git-ebook-5-screencasts/135967?sso?WT.ac=search_item&WT.seg_1=search_item&WT.z_author=rockablepress).

Do we want to limit the resources here to 100% free only? or is it worth also linking to paid books?

Coby

On Thursday, 27 September 2012 at 1:44 AM, Tim Berglund wrote:

@cobyism (https://github.com/cobyism) I find that I don't do a good job thinking about categories early on in a process, which means all of this sounds great to me! I'll probably have re-organization ideas two months after we launch.
Right now, I do think any OSS'd presentations we have should have their own category, so I'd split that out of "more free resources" into its own thing. As for other free Git books, there's Gettting Good with Git (http://net.tutsplus.com/freebies/books/getting-good-with-git-free-ebook/), but I'd be find if we just stuck with Pro Git as our free book link.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub (https://github.com/github/training.github.com/issues/19#issuecomment-8894489).

matthewmccullough commented 12 years ago

I'd like to make "Free Resources" just "Resources". There is many a customer that has been happy we pointed them at the O'Reilly videos and O'Reilly book.

cobyism commented 12 years ago

@matthewmccullough Sweet, yeah that makes sense. That way we can include links to all sorts of stuff there.

cobyism commented 12 years ago

If we’re getting rid of the "free" part of this, then it also would make sense to move the classes/office-hours stuff out of the "resources" section and into the "web-based" section as another tab next to the git foundations and advanced courses. Does that seem like a good idea to you guys?

matthewmccullough commented 12 years ago

Today's discussions about other things reminded me of the proper passion for simple.

I'm :+1: on your suggested simplification. Less categories. Easier to understand. More eyeballs on our events. == A single button to drive the entire phone.

Yes.

On Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Coby Chapple wrote:

If we’re getting rid of the "free" part of this, then it also would make sense to move the classes/office-hours stuff out of the "resources" section and into the "web-based" section as another tab next to the git foundations and advanced courses. Does that seem like a good idea to you guys?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub (https://github.com/github/training.github.com/issues/19#issuecomment-8962090).

tlberglund commented 12 years ago

Less.

(I thought of writing "less is more" in support of @matthewmccullough's comment, but the extra two words were too much.)

cobyism commented 12 years ago

This all happened.