h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'll move this on to Final Polishing, but should I hold off on publishing until you have a photo, Tufty? The alternative is that we would get the artists to come up with some sort of image representing the Raspberry Pi.

Well, the first production machines are being released today, so a picture starts to become a possibility.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17703852


Geggs

I'm not sure how long it will be before large number of the RPi will be available - only a few people who have pre-ordered early on have got their hands on them so far. Perhaps a community artist mock-up of the board layout would be better than waiting for a photo.

I favour making this Edited as soon as possible, and adding in photographs as and when you have them Tufty? How would others feel about this?

In my view this is a very important series of Entries which is very much of general interest and I would not want it to be held up waiting for an illustration. Plus, I know that Tavaron is very busy with the development of the new version of h2g2 (Pliny) at the moment.

Lanzababy

Yes, I think this really should have a photo and not a drawing so I'd rather add one later when you have one.

OK, I might stick in some sort of a placeholder image just to fill the space on the Front Page when this is published, and we can add the photos when you've got them.

What do you have in mind as a placeholder?

I'd never heard of this before, and now I want one!

A13735596

Powerpoint
PowerPoint


Software – the sort that a beginner will use.
Hardware – what's inside the box?
Peripherals You'll Need – things you'll need to run a Rasberry Pi.
Getting Started – what you need to do to get up and running.
I'd start all those descriptive sentences with capital letters. And perhaps change the hyphens to colons, or at least to dashes.

A13335932

the same GNU License that cover Linux
That should be /covers/. Also, it's the GNU General Public License, which is one of many GNU licenses, and is generally known as the GPL. (Others include the GNU Library/Lesser GPL and the Affero GPL/GNU AGPL.) Perhaps the phrasing is fine as it is, but I'd like to see /GPL/ in there somewhere.
I really must write an entry on the Free Software movement.

I did read the rest, and saw no problems, except a few hyphens which probably should be dashes.

Also, Richard Stallman might politely point out that all the OSs mentioned owe far more to the GNU project than they do to the Linux project, and they should therefore be known as distros of GNU/Linux. It has become common to refer to them as Linux distros, but technically Linux is just the kernel, and the rest of it is GNU.

TRiG.

I thought I'd use this blob as a placeholder image:

http://h2g2.com/oldblobs/white/56384.gif

with the title:

"A student explores the world of bare-board computers"

Actually, that doesn't look great when linked like that. It will be better in the entry.

I've added that image to the first entry A13735596. What do people think?

Thanks for those comments, TRiG. Those actually are all dashes, not hyphens.

The only hyphens are in the titles of the entries, where we can't yet put extended characters, and in one place where there was 15-20 and it used a hyphen.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/trademark-rules
we'll take their logo as a picture and have the picture link to their page

(Pastey found that, thank you Pastey)

As a placeholder we can use the Raspberry Pi logo as long as it links through to their website according to their Ts&Cs

Simpost

Isn't this excellent article on the Front Page now?
Why is the conversation still in Peer Review?

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basically because there are no editing tools to handle university entries.

This has been made 'Approved' so just ignore this being here for the time being until either I or Gnomon remembes how to do the manual workaround

Well, it's more a case that I forgot to remove the conversation when I was making the entries edited, and now that Pliny has been introduced, there appears to be no way of removing it.

Another bug to be recorded.

Gnomon

I've removed it now

Ah, I see. I can remove it in Brunel, but not in Alabaster. Strange.