I’ve had some ideas myself for what sort of information would be helpful for newcomers.
Do you feel like summarizing and posting your ideas to this thread? This
way we could collect ideas from you and anyone else who has them and
start discussing / fleshing them out.
There is no reason that our starting point has to come from @Nina. We
can take her input and merge it with whatever we already have.
Writing is always messy. Let’s collect all we can, flesh it out and then
discuss what/where/in which order. Nothing is wasted, as even parts that
might not end up in the “simple user guide” can be harvested and
contributed to the community documentation.
I think there are a lot of people who want to contribute / give back to
Qubes OS but don’t see themselves becoming Xen/Kernel experts or even
writing Python GUI code. But everyone who uses Qubes OS can contribute
to this!
One thing I can commit to right here and now: I will translate the end
result into German.