Thank you a lot! Unfortunately, in the days before FLock I was too busy with my daily work and additionally prepare everything for Flock. I’ve uploaded my Flock slides to my fedorapeople page.
Unfortunately, the slides only contain the headlines, not all the details I went into. The general diagnosis is: (too) weak linkage of the technical side of the distribution and the documentation of the distribution. Other, successful distributions have solved this better, as I have shown with the simple example of the start pages of Fedora, ArchLinux and RockyLinux (the latter both have, in contrast to Fedora, “documentation” already in a prominent place of the start page).
Improving the structural deficits is probably a project for several years.
In the short term, the strategy is to focus on Quick Docs and encourage our non-developer user base to make quasi-pass-by / “read-by” contributions to Quick Docs articles. At the top of each article there are links to commenting and to the web online editor. Both are easy to use. The goal is for everyone to make it a habit to comment on Quick Docs articles when they see something they’d like to see improved or added, or to change it right away in the web editor.
To this end, “a few social media posts here and there” as you put it, can certainly contribute a lot. And all four of the areas you mentioned are important, in my opinion. I would be happy if we could work together on this. And maybe we can think of more ways to launch such a campaign once we get started.