Karsten, My apologies for the somewhat late reply. I have been reading up on the materials and this list, as well as some others related to the Fedora project. I guess my best option for the moment is going through the phase of learning to use all these different tools, and start writing. When I get something finished, I will submit it here in the list. And to answer the question about what I could write about : I have been so far 'studying and experimenting' with IP networking, DHCP, DNS, NIS, NFS, SAMBA, NTP... I want to know more about configuring and using encryption and related tools. I am also trying to learn a bit more about (shell script) programming in a Linux environment (apart from learning how to use the documentation tools and programs). I will keep an eye on this list and get back as soon as I have something to present. Regards, Marc Marc On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 22:07, Karsten Wade wrote: > On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 01:34, Marc Bruggeman wrote: > > To the Fedora Documentation Project maintainer (Tammy Fox), > > > > I have been using and experimenting with Linux over the past 5 years. > > Mostly Red Hat distributions (from 6.0 onwards I have used them all, > > exept 8.0) but also tried out Debian, Mandrake and Slackware on several > > occasions. As I am a telecomm professional my interest was more in how > > to set up the different protocols and configure the system(s) and try to > > figure out why things were/are done in such or such a way. > > In my professional career I have also written lots of technical > > documents and presentations and project reports in several languages > > (Dutch, English, French). > > Lately, I feel I would like to contribute in a way to the whole Open > > Software movement and because I feel most comfortable using the redhat > > distributions and now Fedora, I would like to volunteer to work on the > > documentation project. > > > > I am on Fedora Core 2 right now, have downloaded the documentation files > > via CVS and am reading trough the guidelines and Emacs tutorials. I must > > admit that so far, I have not yet really used Emacs and the other > > mentioned tools, but hey, that will give me a new challenge and a reason > > to learn something new. > > > > Please let me know if I can be of any help to this project, or if you > > would need more specific info, do not hesitate to contact me ! > > Speaking just as a project member, I would say, Yes!, we need more > help. Right now we need: > > * Writers of new documents, especially those who can understand the > tools > * Helpers, who can assist non-DocBook users in getting documents in the > proper format > > After we have some more submissions, we will need editors, and one day, > translators. > > As for what can you write about? The question comes back to you, what > are you interested in? Tell us, we'd like to talk about it. When you > have something, submit it to the list. Look for collaborators. See if > your idea is being worked on in another way. > > Welcome! > > - Karsten > > -- > Karsten Wade, RHCE, Tech Writer > this .signature subject to random changes > http://people.redhat.com/kwade/ > gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41 >
