On Saturday February 9, 2013 11:27 am Pete Travis wrote: > Hello Scott, and welcome! > > I think your perspective and skills will be a valuable addition to our > team, and I look forward to working together. We have a few more hurdles for > you to jump over, but they aren't too high. > > If you haven't discovered it yet, there's a wiki page[1] on joining the > group. Once you have an FAS account set up, we can sponsor that account > into the Docs group. Many of us idle in #fedora-docs on freenode if you > have any questions. We meet in #fedora-meeting at 1400 UTC on Mondays, and > you are of course invited to join us. I will definitely do that. My free time for contributing to this project will begin in late March, and I want to use the time until them to get oriented and to set up my system and get accustomed to using some of the suggested software. I am not familiar with Git or with Docbook, but I don't anticipate having much trouble familiarizing myself with those. I already have a Git account, but have not used it for anything. > Do you have an idea of what you'd like to write about? I have only vague ideas right now. As I become more familiar with existing documentation, I will probably find my focus. The main reasons I want to join are to contribute back to free software and to gain experience with technical writing. I'm not a programmer, unless you count writing bash scripts (which I don't), but my writing skills could prove valuable. There are many times when I have read documentation and thought to myself, "I could have written that better." In anticipation of having a lot of free time on my hands, I thought about how to fill it. Several ideas crossed my mind: starting a blog, independent study/research while away from school, and other, less viable, ideas. Then my wife responded to a comment I made about the lack of help documents for a program I was using by saying, "Maybe you should spend your time off from school writing documentation." I thought it was a brilliant idea. All I needed to do was to figure out where to contribute. I thought about what software I use most and realized that no matter what else I am using that I am always using the OS. That decided the issue for me. I anticipate having some technical questions about the software and processes used by your team, but what I have already found seems fairly complete and clear. -- Scott Bicknell :wq -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
