-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jonquil: Welcome to the Docs Project! There are lots of things to do, especially for an experienced writer/editor. It seems like the usual "place to start" is either by proofreading existing documents or by helping to write the Release Notes. I'm pretty sure the Release Notes for Fedora 16 are already (mostly?) finished, so that leaves you with proofreading. Until the Fedora 17 cycle. The place to go for this is the Draft Documentation part of the website, which is what will turn into the Fedora 16 versions of the Guides. It looks to me like the User Guide is available, and that's probably a place where you can make a big impact (see below for link). Draft Fedora 16 User Guide: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en- US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/16.0/html/User_Guide/index.html The Deployment Guide is my personal favourite from a useful-content-to-me perspective, but it's updated almost daily by the author, so I don't know if it's at a stage where you want to be proof-reading yet. If you're looking for something in desperate need of proof-reading but with a smaller target audience, you might start with the Musicians' Guide. Most of it is literally a first draft. I could do a much better job if I had the time, but I'm a graduate student, so I just don't. Of course you can choose to do anything you want, like start your own Guide, or do "wiki-farming" (aka updating the Fedora Project wiki... also sorely needed!) Oh... last thing is where to submit contributions. At first, I'd rewrite a chapter/section/sentence/whatever, then submit it as a bug, to the Bugzilla component corresponding to the document. Eventually you can move into modifying the documents directly, but it's a lot to learn all at once. https://bugzilla.redhat.com Any questions, just ask, or join us on IRC (freenode) #fedora-docs Christopher. On 16 October 2011 08:00:10 docs-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 14:02:31 -0400 > From: Jonquil McDaniel <jonquil@xxxxxxxx> > Subject: new member introduction > To: docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Message-ID: <1318701751.12582.0.camel@jonquil> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hello all! > > My name is Jonquil McDaniel and I'm in the EST time zone. My country of > residence is the United States. I have a lot of writing experience under > my belt and I currently am editor of a local online magazine. I'm > joining this group because I want to contribute to Fedora in some way > and seeing as I'm not a programmer I thought I might try my hand at > documentation since I've had a class on technical writing. I'm not > really sure yet of what specifically I want to do but I do know I want > to write, LOL. I can contribute at least 5 hours a week to the project. > > * Time Zone / Country > * Basic skills and experiences > * Why you're joining > * What you're looking to do (be specific) > * How much time you can contribute (usually hours per week) > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/docs/attachments/20111015/0d08bfb > d/attachment-0001.html > > ----------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJOmyd8AAoJEInCktGVqZ8VIiwH/3iNvnJbQOuDrxdndOIB2POJ yN5WcgNDmnQrlUeVNPrmXcjuDxJ0EspPYCq9zAm7faB98lgj50PmegTpvNcF0Lvl 0Zl0xNPhsYAXktwZ6iZ9VkZBevAfI7AVHbtno1l79ksaRzNni1LFD77rnvt8TSZI XwG3kMPHxAQ4zImJp57uNL6yyGq5VoXAxfbEhwhkVfGjUp7saigGv/9N/YN9G0zk pzEmBzokCwmEa/jSzYxYBy/ueTrMYFj2rHkx5E1Vp2RAHUbG9nal4XKF/nxXarNQ V57Sezm8raM86p8hSWdZjszjAt37RVBrs9gqoeFaqpVbuM47MQBctx+YHXmg0fs= =dd3d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
