What's with the posts saying "Please send me your ideas. Maybe I can do something with them."? Um, no. Please publish your ideas and let the world help you with your problem.
Actually, you already have. Why _isn't_ there a one-button (or script) way to get started with github? This is exactly the sort of thing github should be doing to extend their community. The instructions at https://github.com/ (GitHub Bootcamp) seemed pretty good to me, but that just means I didn't fail at some step for impenetrable reasons, and give up. It's not obvious to me that the entire business of starting up, including generating ssh keys and registering them with github, couldn't be done in a simple installer.
Next, of course, comes the difficulty in learning to use git. And no, it isn't obvious. I'm not entirely sure the problem can be solved with training, but I am sure it certainly would be better solved by training focused at a particular user community. For example (to pick one out of the air), where is the tutorial for people who collaborate to write a document written in LaTeX? Do they want a centralized, single-master repository with a small number of committers, a centralized repository wiki-style, where everyone on the list can push, or distributed repositories? How to manage these scenarios? What special problems will be encountered because of LaTeX markup? This is probably best addressed by the community of LaTeX users, if they could only get started, and if only they could figure out how to use the tool to best advantage.
Actually, you already have. Why _isn't_ there a one-button (or script) way to get started with github? This is exactly the sort of thing github should be doing to extend their community. The instructions at https://github.com/ (GitHub Bootcamp) seemed pretty good to me, but that just means I didn't fail at some step for impenetrable reasons, and give up. It's not obvious to me that the entire business of starting up, including generating ssh keys and registering them with github, couldn't be done in a simple installer.
Next, of course, comes the difficulty in learning to use git. And no, it isn't obvious. I'm not entirely sure the problem can be solved with training, but I am sure it certainly would be better solved by training focused at a particular user community. For example (to pick one out of the air), where is the tutorial for people who collaborate to write a document written in LaTeX? Do they want a centralized, single-master repository with a small number of committers, a centralized repository wiki-style, where everyone on the list can push, or distributed repositories? How to manage these scenarios? What special problems will be encountered because of LaTeX markup? This is probably best addressed by the community of LaTeX users, if they could only get started, and if only they could figure out how to use the tool to best advantage.