Cheers Gavin and thanks for the warm welcome. I'll be covering the internationalisation technologies included with Fedora as a primary focus as I get up to speed with things. My beat will be on complex text language support. cheers, Mike On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:35 pm, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 10:49 +0100, Gavin Henry wrote: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Contributors > > Michael and Bob, > > Welcome to the project! Please check out some of our informational > sources if you haven't already: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject - Notice the information on > process. We are a younger project, but because documentation quickly > becomes canonical on a subject, it's especially important that work here > gets vetted before release in a way that is not good for actual code, > where the rule is "release early, release often." > > http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/documentation-guide/ - The > Documentation Guide is the next FDP Major Work(tm) we will be tackling, > this time for a rewrite to make it more useful to non-coders and > newbies. > > I am always up front about the fact that, although I known a little C/C > ++ and a smattering of other stuff, I don't code for a living. I don't > want to read documents that are written for coders. Like Bob, I believe > that if a document is to be useful, it needs to have a definite target > audience. If that audience includes novices, the doc needs to be > written as such. > > Right now we have a deficit of writers, so I hope both of you will > please consider bringing in some ideas for tutorials you want to write. > If you don't have any ideas handy, I will keep you both "in the loop" > for writing small chapters of the Documentation Guide (at first), to cut > your teeth on the process and tools. Ask frequent questions, since > we're all here to help each other. -- -- fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
