Community-created Simple User Guide

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[…] we don’t have a simple user guide that works for non-technical
and non-FOSS users. […] I really, really wish what Deeplow put
together, could go into a Qubes user guide. […] the robust
contributor community Qubes has, nor the core-team bandwidth.

Hi @Nina, I think virtually everyone here agrees with you including
@adw. His point I think is that the core developer team does not have
the bandwidth to deal with this (create & maintain) at this point in
Qubes OS’s development.

I know that Deeplow (and probably other contributors) would be keen
to work on such materials

You bet.

Something “Official” and on the QubesOS website

In my professional live I have ended countless philosophical arguments
by creating facts (i.e. prototype or draft) that could then be
criticized and improved upon. My proposal:

  1. You make a very rough very high-level outline

  2. We make that a wiki-post and unleash the community

  3. Once we have a first good result, we make it available exactly as the
    guidelines say we should.

  4. We restart the conversation about where it should live, but this time
    with a concrete thing to look at and a team of contributors that have
    ownership and commitment to the thing.

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