Nominations now open, Elections for FDSCo 2-Feb to 12-Feb
by Karsten Wade
Your project leadership, the Fedora Documentation Steering Committee
(FDSCo), is now opening all seats for election in this first FDSCo
election during 2 to 12 Feb 2007.
The nominations page is:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/SteeringCommittee/Nominations
You can read the full details at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Policy/FDSCoElections
Why are we doing this? Because it's the right thing to do, finally, and
it also happens to be required by the Fedora Project. Projects such as
the Fedora Documentation Project are important community
Essential election details are:
* 7 seats for FDSCo is the right size
* All seats are open for this election
* Every six months we have a new election and refresh 1/2 of the seats
(4/3 split)
* For this first election only, three of the seats are up for reelection
in six months; otherwise, terms are one year long.
* The three seats up for reelection are the three that received the
fewest votes in the first election, just for this first election.
* FDSCo elects its own chair on an annual basis; the chair is the
project leader.
Speaking of leadership, it's way past time for me to send this email
out. Let's fill up FDSCo and find someone to replace me, either this
time or next time. I'm starting to get old and forgetful here! Need
some new energy/blood to stir things up, while I continue on my
curmudgeonly ways.
cheers - Karsten
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Karsten Wade, RHCE, 108 Editor ^ Fedora Documentation Project
Sr. Developer Relations Mgr. | fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject
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16 years, 10 months
Re: Docs Successes and Needs
by Paul Gampe
Paul W. Frields wrote:
Hi Paul,
> Outstanding Issues:
> 1. Translation Project disconnect - what do we need here in concrete
> terms?
I had been approached a few times regarding this topic, but as yet do not
know exactly what is required. Is this project scoped somewhere I can
reference?
> App rewrites and process changes? Red Hat internal group(s)
> originally had ownership of this, yet we've seen no progress in the past
> months... or year(s).
The Red Hat internal group you are referring to here was approached to hand
over the code to the translation web applications which was done some time
ago. I am not sure what has happened since then, but depending on the
scope I may be able to help.
> 2. Content from RH, licensed under our terms (OPL w/no options).
Was there a thread discussing the selection of this license?
Kind regards,
Paul
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Paul Gampe - Red Hat, <pgampe(a)redhat.com>
16 years, 10 months
Self-Intro: Eddie Elizondo
by Eddie Elizondo
Hello. This is Eddie Elizondo from Laredo, TX, US. Other than strong grammatical and general writing skills, I don't have many qualifications to report. I have been using Fedora since June 2006, with FC5 on my laptop and FC6 on my desktop. I do not know code and I cannot write technical documents, but I can and want to contribute by editing draft and existing documentation for grammatical errors and general ease of reading. I don't have any experience from previous projects, but there's no better way to start by using one's strengths.
I believe I've followed all the necessary instructions to get started. After creating a Fedora account, will I need to e-mail someone for special permissions to edit documents? Thanks.
[root@localhost ~]# gpg --fingerprint eddieelizondo(a)sbcglobal.net
pub 1024D/22A483A6 2007-01-16 [expires: 2008-01-16]
Key fingerprint = 8B5E E6D8 CFB2 0244 EA6A A845 F17B A0A7 22A4 83A6
sub 2048g/EA103DE8 2007-01-16 [expires: 2008-01-16]
16 years, 10 months
HOWTO for Live CD in the Fedora Project wiki
by John Babich
David Zeuthen and the Live CD Team:
I think it would help promote the Fedora Live CD efforts if there was
a HOWTO (based on the README) which could be easily referenced
and updated as needed in the Fedora Project wiki.
In order to do this, I converted the README for the Live CD Tools into
a formatted wiki entry under my sandbox,
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JohnBabich/Sandbox/LiveCDHowTo.
I would like to move it to
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/LiveCDHowTo.
I am willing to track changes in the Live CD process and update the wiki
accordingly. Please let me know if you agree and I will link the HOWTO
under the FedoraLiveCD entry and take responsibility to keep it up-to-date.
John Babich
Volunteer, Fedora Docs Project
16 years, 11 months
CVS sponsors needed by lang team
by Karsten Wade
Can one or a few experienced translators volunteer to be a CVS Sponsor?
You would receive requests for the 'cvsdocs' group, can act to give
'User' access to these requests, and would handle the requests from CVS
access from translators.
Right now this covers only the 'cvsdocs' group, but when L10N is
integrated into cvs.fedoraproject.org, the Translation Project would use
the same mechanism to give access to e.g. 'cvstrans'.
What's happening currently is that mostly we have Administrators, who do
not receive account requests. Requesters are having to track down
someone to help them, since we only have one or two Sponsors over
'cvsdocs'.
Any other ideas here?
- Karsten
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Karsten Wade, RHCE, 108 Editor ^ Fedora Documentation Project
Sr. Developer Relations Mgr. | fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject
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