On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 22:04 +0000, Mayank Sharma wrote: > Hello, > > I am Mayank Sharma, a freelance technical writer in New Delhi, India. > I helped launch India's first magazine on Open Source -- LINUX For > You. Currently am freelancing for OSTG (NewsForge, Linux.com, etc) and > occasionally write for Linux Journal and OpenOffice.org as well. I am > one of the silent subscribers of the list, but hope to change that > status with this email. Welcome! > While working on an article on SELinux, I bumped into Karsten at > #selinux. After a few hours we were discussing about the fedora docs, > Karsten laying down the project's need for authors. Due to time > considerations I can't (yet) author a doc, but I did volunteer to > maintain the existing stock. > > Karsten thinks the Installation Guide would need multiple maintainers. > So here I am ready to share the burden with Stuart. And now is when I should explain myself properly. :) Seeing the tremendous effort that Stuart has put into the Installation Guide (IG), I realized that for the long term, we could use a small team (2 to 4) for the IG to: 1) Work on new content/changes for upcoming releases, as soon as test1 is out or sooner. 2) Maintain the existing release, including bugfixes, content merges from the existing version to the upcoming version, and content merges coming the other way. At the moment, I was hoping Stuart might have some small creation tasks for Mayank, that is, help in finishing something that is unfinished. This is outside of the scope of what Mayank is available for, so I don't know if it will work. I could be overplaying the need for ongoing help with the IG, please correct me if I am! FWIW, I have tried to respond to all requests for Fedora documentation with a polite request for more writers. I think the FDP is a great place to get started for people who want to be more closely involved in open source development. Feel free to make such pleas yourselves, wherever you can. We can't be at fault for failing to create a tonne of documentation if the community hasn't first provided a tonne+1 writers. :) _ Karsten -- Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Tech Writer * http://people.redhat.com/kwade/ gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41 IT executives rate Red Hat #1 for value http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/
