On 04/28/2016 01:56 PM, Drew Meigs wrote:
Thank you for the email, Stephen. I do have a little experience with
HTML and very limited experience with XML, but that's all the markup I
am familiar with. I do not currently use any kind of editor, simply
because I don't really do much editing right now. Is there sort of an
"it" editor in the group? One that everyone seems to use? I would be
interested to know if there is one or more that are really popular. I am
generally a pretty quick study, so maybe I can get the hang of DocBook
quickly. I have looked at some of the documentation since getting your
email and it seems like it is pretty straightforward. Thanks for the
heads up.
As far as the group you mentioned, it looks like it's set to
invite-only, so maybe I will get an invite at some point. I'm still new
to this process, so I am not entirely certain how the inner-workings go.
I have bookmarked the other pages, though. Anyway, it was nice to hear
from you. Thanks for the welcome.
Drew
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rmeigs
On 4/28/2016 3:51 AM, Stephen Wadeley wrote:
On 04/28/2016 01:25 AM, Drew Meigs wrote:
Hi, everyone.
My name is Drew and I would like to join the "Docs Project." I am from
the US/Eastern time zone (UTC -4 currently). I am relatively new to
Fedora, but I have been using Linux for somewhere around 10 years
(mostly Debian-based systems until recently). I feel I would be a good
fit with the community because my passions are teaching people, and
technology. I feel like this group combines the best of both worlds.
My main interests are going to be proofreading/correcting and testing
for accuracy or doing some QA on the documentation. Eventually I would
like to write documentation of my own, but I feel like it could be a
while before I am ready to do something like that. I would like to
collaborate on projects in the interim, maybe. Though these are the
things I WANT to do, I am willing to do most things that the Docs
Project takes care of. I am a pretty easy-going guy and if I am asked to
do something, I will generally do it. I should be able to dedicate a few
hours each week to projects. Some weeks, I may be able to do more.
Though I do not have any real, notable experience with documentation, I
always got good grades on my papers in college, and friends would get me
to proofread for them. I do have experience in explaining things at the
level of a beginner end-user, though, and I feel that could translate
over to the documentations with a bit of work. My skills are more on the
social side than the technical side (though I wouldn't consider myself
to be too green on technical things). What I mean to say is that I do
well with people and can generally identify and empathize with my target
audience.
It is very nice to be here and I look forward to meeting and working
with you all. If you see me on IRC (rmeigs), feel free to say hi.
Drew
My GPG Key Fingerprint:
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Welcome Drew
You can find us in #fedora-docs on freenode
Pete Travis is our dear leader[0], he will send a welcome with his
list of helpful URLs soon, but I will include some to get you started.
In the mean time why not tell us what editor you use and do you have
any experience with markup languages? At the moment we use DocBook but
there are some who would like to change to asciidoc.
You do not have to know any of that to contribute, corrections and
additions can be done in other ways. I am just curious.
Contributors should apply to the FAS group[1]
The Guides Table [2], is worth bookmarkin and a quick read.
Fedorahosted cgit[3] is the best way to find the correct repo link to
clone.
Regards
Stephen
[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Immanetize
[1] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/group/members/docs
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project_guides_table
[3] https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/
Dear Drew
I use gvim partly because knowing how to use vi is essential for Linux
admin work and partly because the person who trained me went to a lot of
trouble of make DocBook snippets for vim[1].
Alternately you could use gedit for a more gentle learning curve.
[1] https://github.com/jhradilek/vim-snippets
Regards
Stephen
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