Thank you for the write-up, Sajolida! And thank you for letting us brainstorm on Tails. I also really liked the tent metaphor, would love to see how that can be incorporated in the introduction/explanation. (In my head I see a set of tent illustrations coming up? cf.
https://www.tunnelbear.com/) Let me know if Simply Secure can be of any assistance here :)
Greetings from Berlin,
Eileen
> On 14. Mar 2018, at 18:26, sajolida <sajolida@???> wrote:
>
> Last week at IFF I was invited by Eileen from Simply Secure to a session
> about "Writing good documentation":
>
> https://platform.internetfreedomfestival.org/en/IFF2018/public/schedule/custom/426
>
> One of the practical exercises we gave to people was to rethink the
> description of Tails that we have on our homepage to turn it into a
> metaphor to explain Tails.
>
> Two groups of 4 people worked on that and I collected the output :)
>
> Something funny is that both groups came up with similar metaphors in
> parallel. I heard about "bicycle", "caravan", and "tent" in both groups.
>
> The strongest one, I think, is the metaphor of a tent:
>
> « - Amnesic
> - Empty every time its setup
> - Stored in backpack ("USB stick") along with "stuff" which can be
> moved into the tent ("persistence") or not.
> - Incognito
> - Can move around (change "address")
> - Many tents look alike
> - Works best among other tents (not in a library)
> - Live
> - Can carry around in backpack
> - Can set up in backyard (own laptop) or away from home »
>
> I dumped what people had written in their notes on the blueprint where I
> collect info that might be useful in the future when we start working on
> explaining what is Tails:
>
> /!\ Wild notes → https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/explain_tails/
>
> And thank you Eileen and Adriana for the great session!
