Wow, this thread has veered off course somewhat! It quickly became obvious that my initial proposal for a Community Tutorial Project wouldn’t work (at least not in the way I envisioned it). But still, figuring out, what tutorials are missing and even having some volunteers to try and fill some of the gaps, would be nice too. As to organizing the tutorials better, I’m all for it. Anyone with any good suggestions as to reorganizing our own tutorials section efficiently (as in: not too much work to achieve now and not too much work to maintain), feel free to speak up.
The same obviously goes for methodically cataloging the existing tutorials, in a new site or here. You’re more than welcome to try, but I promise you, you’re in for a lot of work beforehand and maintaining the resulting database will give you a lot of work afterwards also. Projects like that tend to die slow and painful deaths (with a few notable exceptions).
But in the end that way not a single new tutorial gets made, which was part of the point I originally was trying to make. And to reiterate that original point, I wanted to make a community effort (“Project”) to get as many people as possible into the fine art of tutorial making, so that filling the gaps in the existing tutorial offering would be something “we” would do “ourselves”, more than just a small group of volunteers. But like I said, that was a bit too optimistic…
