Hmm I was travelling last evening so I couldn't contribute. Here are some of my thoughts:
There is already a FAQ at
http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual/faq.html that I try to keep up to date as calibre evolves. However, I don't always succeed, and that FAQ covers relatively basic things as it is pretty long already.
In terms of stickies, I think we should dump the existing sticky structure and have something along the lines of
- A start here subforum with a
few stickies that cover questions in commonly asked categories, and one sticky to give guidelines on how to ask a question.
- Three or four sub fora for the advanced topics: Recipes, plugins, plugboards, regexes?, conversions, catalogs? Each sub forum can have a couple of stickies for important/common topics.
What's needed to make this work is that a few calibre advanced users/developers volunteer to hang out in the sub fora of their particular interests. And it would be great if a few less advanced people would hang out in the start here/geenral forum and welcome/direct newbies to the appropriate places.
@Alex: Would it be possible to give a few volunteers moderator privileges just for this forum and its sub-fora?
I will volunteer to act as general backstop, trying to handle stuff that no one else can.
These are all just ideas, and I'm open to a completely different scheme if necessary.