On Saturday February 9, 2013 1:02 pm Christopher Antila wrote: > Welcome to the Docs Project! > > Most of my previous email applies here too: > I'm not sure whether you discovered our IRC channel yet (#fedora-docs on > freenode); if you have, good work! I suggest you attend weekly meetings, > about which you can find more information here: I did find the IRC channel and added it to XChat's freenode startup list along with the #fedora-meeting channel. > Another common way for new contributors to join in is with the Release > Notes. Because these are highly sectionalized, you can work on the parts > that interest you the most. Each section is called a "beat," and you can > find out more from here: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Documentation_beats Thanks for the pointer. I will definitely look there for good starting points. > I'm not sure you could write documentation specific for former bus drivers, > but if you're seriously interested in free software graphics applications, > we have basically no existing documentation for those in Fedora. As you might imagine, bus drivers I have talked to about Linux have always scratched their heads and asked why I use it, so perhaps pursuing graphics application documentation might be better. I'll have to investigate further. > In 2010, I wrote the "Musicians' Guide," about music and audio software, and > I imagine the Fedora Design Team (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design) > would support your efforts to write a similar document for graphics > software. As you can imagine, this would be a very large project, but you > could slowly build the guide over several releases. In fact, you could > probably even copy existing documentation from other sources, then > customize it to your preferences and to Fedora's requirements (mostly "how > to install"). That might be a valuable addition to the documentation. I'll have a look at similar guides to get an idea of the scope of such a project. Scott Bicknell :wq -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
