[amibroker] Users' Knowledge Base and myriad of support resources...

["rob_7429" <rob__shaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been an AmiBroker customer for over a month now and loving every 
minute of it. It's an incredibly deep and powerful tool, with an 
amazing community as you all know.

In that time, I've spent many hours scouring the amibroker website, 
the yahoo groups, and the myriad of other AB information sources out 
there.

I thought I had a pretty good grasp on the lay of the land, until I 
shockingly discovered the "Users' Knowledge Base" 
(http://www.amibroker.org/userkb/), not to be confused with the 
official "Knowledge Base" (http://www.amibroker.com/kb/), from a 
posting by Herman recently.
(ps. Amazing job Herman & Brian_z - the Amibroker community is in 
your debt for generously spreading your knowledge).

I found it staggering that this wealth of knowledge had eluded me 
until today.

So the purpose of this message:

(1) A passionate plea to Tomasz to put links to the Users' Knowledge 
Base on the Amibroker website. I couldn't find one.

(2) To share the following observation in the interests of helping 
Tomasz make Amibroker an even greater commercial success:

There is an incredible amount of useful information on Amibroker and 
trading, but the organization of it is in a complete state of 
disarray. I suspect a large number of potential customers have walked 
away once presented with the large number of documents and links that 
lack an organized flow. IMHO Amibroker is too good of a tool to let 
this occur.

My quick inventory of support resources includes:

- Users' Knowledge Base
- Knowledge Base
- Devlog
- 4 yahoo groups w/ files (amibroker, amibroker-ts, amibroker-afl, & 
amibroker-news)
- User's guide
- Official tutorials
- Member submitted tutorials
- Video tutorials
- AFL Library
- FAQ
- Troubleshooting guide
- Starters Guide
- Old AmiBroker Tips Newsletters 
- Additional documentation on the amibroker.com support page

This is a lot of resources for a new customer to get a handle on, and 
a lot for an existing customer to monitor for new posts.

My recommendation:

Take a holistic view of all the support resources and reorganize them 
into a cohesive assembly, delete outdated resources (E.g. amibroker-
news), migrate useful resources into the user's guide (E.g 
Troubleshooting guide and FAQ) or into the Knowledge Base (E.g. 
Amibroker Tips newsletter), etc.

The relatively recent introduction of the Knowledge Bases and DevLog 
goes a long way, but if feels like legacy documents and links need to 
be cleaned up.

I'd certainly be happy to lend a helping hand wherever able.

Thanks for the ear.

Rob



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