On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 00:41 -0800, Robert F. Chapman wrote: > Robert F. Chapman > California, USA Welcome, Robert. If anything, I'm always happy to see more Fedora folks from California, sometimes I get lonely thinking the Fedora community is happening all over the world but right here. :) Our first questions for folks are: Do you want to receive direction of a part of the project to start working on? Specific tasks or a short-list of needs? Or do you prefer to dive in, fish around, and choose your own way? Some more comments ... > Goals: > Help make a difference in the Linux Community. > Give something back for all that has been gained from the many > contributors of Linux/Redhat Distro. > Too many times when reading documentation for the Fedora > Project, I have come across grammatical/spelling errors. For the most > part, I think all that have contributed have done a great job. I have > often wanted to send little snippets for correction, but don't know who > to send it to.. I like your solution! Can't figure out who in the community can solve these problems, so you become one of the solvers instead. > I would like to learn more about the process of distributed > documentation creation/maintenance, where more than one person is > working on a document. Also I would like to learn more about "Docbook" > and the methods used to create CSS enriched content documents. You definitely came to the right place. Have you seen this starter page? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/NewWriters Our Documentation Guide is about three days from beginning a major overhaul, led by Paul W. Frields (with me as the sidekick); it is largely accurate in some areas, wildly out of date in others, but it is the basis for what we use to teach DocBook and distributed working: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/documentation-guide/ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/DocumentationGuide (scratch space) Thanks, and again, welcome, - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Tech Writer * http://people.redhat.com/kwade/ gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41 Content Services Fedora Documentation Project http://www.redhat.com/docs http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject
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