Self-Introduction: Sven-Thorsten Fahrbach
by Sven-Thorsten Fahrbach
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Hi
I'll try to go through the information requested on
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/SelfIntroduction and then go
on to write some more about myself (hoping to get it right the first
time and to not make too much of a fool of myself ;)).
Full legal name: Sven-Thorsten Fahrbach
City: Stuttgart
Country: Germany
Student status: Beginning 10 September, student at a school for
information management
My goals in the Fedora Project:
Tough one... trying to help where help is needed. I think I've got
sufficient experience to do some translations from English to German
and vice versa and to do localisations of American to British English
texts. Thus, translations is what I'm mostly interested in and
probably what I'm best at. If the opportunity arises I'd also like to
try myself at writing (bits of) drafts for
projects/applications/how-tos/... I'm also interested in contributing
to the wiki.
Historical qualifications:
I've attended a school for commercial correspondence, where I was
trained in doing translations from my mother-tongue to English and
vice versa. I'm occasionally doing translations for the IBKA (a German
organisation which I'm a member of). If you want to have a look at a
translation I did, you can do so here:
http://www.ibka.org/en/infos/ibka.html
I've got several years experience with UNIX-like operating
systems. I started out with SuSE Linux in 2003, have switched to
Debian in 2004, then to Ubuntu in early 2006. At the end of the year I
discovered FreeBSD and became quite infatuated with it. I'm still
eagerly awaiting the 7.0 release which is scheduled for later this
year. Also, admittedly not too long ago, I discovered Fedora (Core 6
at that time) which struck me as much more professional than most of
the other distributions out there and I genuinely like it. So, my two
main interests regarding operating systems are Fedora and FreeBSD. I
use Fedora more frequently, though, partly because, coming from a
Linux background, I'm still more comfortable with it and partly
because of Fedora itself. :)
I've got some programming experience. I'm quite good at Perl, I
daresay, and I also program in C and C++ now and again. At the moment
I'm trying to teach myself some Java.
Here is my GPG fingerprint:
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Well, I think (hope) that about sums it up. I'll be happy to respond
to any questions you might have and I look forward to contributing to
the Fedora Project. :)
Greetings
Sven-Thorsten
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16 years, 8 months
Fedora Guide to Useful Linux Documentation
by Sven-Thorsten Fahrbach
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Hi all
Being a new Documentation Project member and eager to get started I
browsed through the Wiki and discovered the DocIdeas page
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/DocIdeas).
The proposal for the "Guide to Useful Linux Documentation" (suggested
by Karsten Wade) seems to have no editor assigned to it yet and it's
something I feel able to get started with. I'm a bit insecure yet,
though. How sophisticated does a first draft of such a guide have to
be? Is a single, well-formatted page with links to TLDP (and possibly
other useful resources), sorted into different categories, enough for
a start?
And, finally, how can I get the page assigned to me? Is it okay to
just start writing?
Thanks for your help. :)
Sven-Thorsten
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16 years, 8 months
Self-Introduction: Adam Hammond
by Adam Hammond
Adam Hammond
Brisbane, Australia
Student - Queensland University of Technology
Goals in Fedora Project:
To learn more about the OS itself by learning skills through the docs project and then relaying the knowledge learnt to the general public.
Historical Qualifications:
I have not worked on projects so far, due to the fact that I have just finished school. I have ~mid-range computer skills (currently studying a bachelor of IT w/previous experience). I am able to program (intermediately) in Perl and PHP and (basicly) in Java. I am currently working on learning JSP. I feel that I am excellent for this project as I have not been exposed to the wider documentation community as of yet and therefore I will be able to write documentation with a clear perspective of the project.
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16 years, 8 months
FAQs for Fedora Docs contributors
by Karsten Wade
What are the frequently asked questions that we get from new
contributors to this project? List ...
What are some questions you might still have as a contributor?
With stuff scattered all over the wiki, it could help new docs
contributors to have one page with all the answers.
- Karsten
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Sr. Developer Relations Mgr. | fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject
quaid.fedorapeople.org | gpg key: AD0E0C41
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16 years, 8 months
[OT] Help Bugzilla with Documentation!
by Max Kanat-Alexander
Hello folks! Some of you know that in addition to being the
author of FedoraFAQ.org, I'm also one of the two primary developers of
Bugzilla.
This is the best documentation community that I know of, so I
wanted to say that the Bugzilla Project is actively seeking somebody to
work on the documentation!
You would essentially have full control over the docs, as
nobody is working on them currently. They're in DocBook. Currently we
use Jade to compile them, but we'd dearly love to switch to xmlto.
They need a lot of love. :-) *Any* help with them would be
greatly appreciated.
If you want to help out, you can contact me at
mkanat[at]bugzilla[dot]org, or just show up in our IRC channel
(#mozwebtools on irc.mozilla.org). Or, just start submitting patches on
bugzilla.mozilla.org. :-)
-Max
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http://www.insiderfaq.com/
The Insider FAQ: Linux Made Simple.
16 years, 8 months
Translation Quick Start Guide
by Noriko Mizumoto
Hi
Splitting main file into multiple files has just been completed now.
All files have been added and committed in existing
translataion-quick-start/ directory. I have successfully built english,
so hopefully everything should work.
* File structure
Since most of works were cut&paste, it may look ugly somewhere. Please
feel free to make it nicer.
* po/ directory for translation
I have not touched at all as no idea how makefile works with.
Could someone please have a look and fix accordingly?
* Update each chapter
Please grab any file and make update.
Before you work, please insert your name beside of the chapter at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Tasks/TQSG.
Once finish, do not forget to update rpm-info.xml.
* Expand the guide
Please feel free to add new file as new chapter.
Before you work, please add new chapter name and insert your name beside
it at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Tasks/TQSG.
Once finish, do not forget to update Makefile and rpm-info.xml.
cheers
noriko
16 years, 8 months
Docs Project: how well are we doing?
by Dimitris Glezos
Hi all.
Fedora 8 is approaching, as it happened in the past, there are very few people
actively working on our Docs -- so few we are thinking of just focusing on
delivering the release notes and install-guide for this release. The Desktop
user guide hasn't even been updated for F7.
While it seems that we've got very few contributors, on the other hand, we see a
bunch of people joining the project, posting self introductions that show
willingness to help! Which is great!
An obvious Question comes in mind then: what are we doing wrong and all you new
contributors aren't involved in a Doc having fun and everything? What didn't you
like when you first joined the project? What did you expect and where did you
get disappointed?
Also, what could we do better and how? If you would re-engineer the whole
project from ground up, what would you do differently?
-d
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Jabber ID: glezos(a)jabber.org, GPG: 0xA5A04C3B
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loses both and deserves neither." (Anonymous)
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16 years, 8 months
FDSCo Meeting 2007-08-21 Summary
by Karsten Wade
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Attendees:
-----------
Karsten Wade (quaid)*
Bart Couvreur (couf)*
Jesse Keating (f13)
Dimitris Glezos (glezos)*
Ville-Pekka Vaivo (vpv)
Robert 'Bob' Jensen (EvilBob)*
(* FDSCo member)
Summary:
---------
* Asking Fedora Testing to own content for F8TestX/ReleaseNotes page
(quaid to ask wwoods)
* fedora-release-notes package needs updating; Paul to coordinate with
Jesse
- Include pointer to
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F8Test2/ReleaseNotes
* Reminder to Beat writers; start keeping notes on the Wiki, tracking
changes
- quaid to send email to f-docs-l and f-maintainers about:
1. relnotes scheme reminder for test2
2. beats for test3 and beyond
* Karsten to bring a discussion to the list about focus for F8
(relnotes, IG)
* Summer coding projects are all updated and underway; no testing
requests of Fedora Docs at this time
* FDSCo realizes every six month elections are crazy, so have postponed
FDSCo elections until next year (for the full year cycle); FDSCo
positions that are voted upon by the board may still be cycled more
frequently.
16 years, 8 months
FDSCo Meeting 2007-08-21 IRC log
by Karsten Wade
HTML version:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/SteeringCommittee/Meetings/Minu...
09:02 < quaid> <meeting>
09:03 < quaid> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/SteeringCommittee/Meetings#Agenda
09:03 -!- Irssi: #fedora-docs: Total of 29 nicks [1 ops, 0 halfops, 0 voices, 28 normal]
09:03 < quaid> nman64, stickster, StillBob, couf, glezos, EvilBob, vpv -- good $time_of_day
09:04 < couf> same to ya quaid
09:04 < quaid> jmbuser, hmmm, that's who isn't on that list
09:04 < quaid> but he was on Wiki earlier
09:04 < quaid> anyway, we can get started as-is
09:04 < quaid> couf: how are ya?
09:05 * EvilBob is in a phone meeting
09:05 < quaid> ok, let's run down the agenda so we can get to the fun stuff
09:05 < couf> bit sick, but overall doing well, got bit tied up in life last months, trying to catch up
09:06 -!- JonRob [n=jon(a)88-111-164-189.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com] has quit ["Lost terminal"]
09:06 < quaid> one-sheet release notes ... f13, we're planning on following the same style we made up last time, which is the one-sheet of notes on the Wiki for test1 and test2, have test3 be the first 'beta release notes', then lock them for trans for gold
09:07 -!- |DrJef| [n=onefjef@fedora/Jef] has joined #fedora-docs
09:07 < quaid> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Schedule#relnotes-schedule
09:08 < f13> quaid: ok, so you'll have something new in fedora-release-notes for test2?
09:08 < quaid> f13: not on that schedule; nothing new in the package until test3
09:08 < f13> quaid: also, I want to talk about the file layout in release-notes. For the HTML/ content can we do HTML/release-notes/<lang>/ and HTML/readme-burning-isos/<lang>/ ?
09:09 < quaid> I'd like stickster input on that question
09:09 < quaid> he's so distracted at work he forgot to add _work to his nick :)
09:09 < f13> This way I can just grab the release-nots and readme-burning-isos directories and plop them on the iso and have translated content there, and copy the English verisons to the top dir as well.
09:09 < f13> heh
09:09 < glezos> yo
09:09 < quaid> f13: maybe we can do the new file layout with blank content for test2?
09:10 < quaid> then you can test all the deploy toolage
09:10 < f13> quaid: I'd appreciate it, gives us the time to get it right in Anaconda.
09:10 < quaid> makes sense
09:10 < couf> +1
09:10 < quaid> f13: same deadline on those package changes as the rest of the packages then
09:11 < quaid> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/Schedule?action=show&redirect=Sc...
09:11 < quaid> umm, so, that would be ... 28 Aug
09:13 < quaid> ok, schedule updated
09:13 < quaid> f13: thanks, I think that's it; I'll make sure Paul sees the minutes and you guys can discuss the changes
09:13 < glezos> f13, are we going forward with the renaming of the ISO files?
09:14 < quaid> so one the one-sheet ...
09:14 < quaid> actually, f13 is there anyone in RelEng or Testing with a good overview to own content for the one-sheet?
09:15 < quaid> maybe ask wwoods?
09:15 < f13> quaid: poelcat might have good content regarding features
09:15 < quaid> f13: well, that's for the final relnotes, yes
09:15 < f13> we should have some blurbs for test2 as well, since features need to be in a testable state, and we want them tested.
09:15 < quaid> f13: the one-sheet can have a pointer to that content on the wiki
09:16 < f13> it's not easy to grok from the wiki what needs testing and how
09:16 < quaid> f13: but it will need latest, updated info about the test release
09:16 < f13> shouldn't be hard to come up with some stuff in a week
09:16 * quaid forgets the Wiki namespace we used last time
09:16 < quaid> we also want a pointer to that from wherever people look for relnotes on the ISO
09:16 < couf> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F8Test1/ReleaseNotes
09:17 < quaid> so ... in the package? on the Firefox homepage?
09:17 < quaid> couf: thx
09:17 -!- jmbuser [n=jmbuser(a)195.229.24.83] has joined #fedora-docs
09:18 < quaid> ok, I asked wwoods to drop by about http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F8Test2/ReleaseNotes (next version)
09:18 < quaid> I think Fedora Docs has done it's part there, unless we need to update `fedora-release-notes` package with pointers to that page?
09:19 < couf> what was in the package for T1?
09:19 < quaid> dunno
09:20 -!- jmbuser [n=jmbuser(a)195.229.24.83] has quit [Remote closed the connection]
09:20 < quaid> but one thing that happened on F7t1 was people looked in the ISO and wondered where the content was, so we need pointers from there, i think
09:20 * quaid tosses a quarter in the 'buy jmbuser a better country to get broadband from' fund jar
09:21 < couf> right, so say we add a small .txt in the top-dir which point to f8t2/relnotes
09:21 < quaid> or do we want to update the default browser page?
09:22 < couf> hmm yeah, that's part of the package :-/
09:23 < quaid> how about this ...
09:23 < quaid> let's push that decision to Paul to review when updating the package paths and such with jesse
09:24 < couf> aye, maybe best
09:24 < quaid> ok then
09:24 < quaid> we need to get started on the Beats
09:25 < quaid> and that may dovetail into the overall "activating contributors" discussion
09:25 < quaid> but at the least, a reminder to beat writers to fire up their keyboards ...
09:25 < quaid> FWN has been great at this; the weekly beat updating is coo
09:25 < quaid> cool
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09:26 -!- jmbuser [n=jmbuser(a)195.229.24.83] has quit [Remote closed the connection]
09:26 < glezos> quaid, really cool.
09:26 < quaid> that's all i have on that topic
09:27 < quaid> just hoping to broaden help there
09:27 < quaid> get Testing and RelEng and f-maintainers to actually contribute
09:27 < quaid> ok, next is the IG ...
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09:27 < glezos> quaid, sending reminders is always a good idea I guess
09:27 < quaid> here's what I'm thinking on that, and I need to take this on list but here's the warning alvo
09:27 < quaid> s/alvo/salvo/
09:28 < quaid> I think the only things we can commit to for 8 are relnotes + IG
09:28 * quaid sees black text there, that was weird
09:28 < quaid> I think the only things we can commit to for F8 are relnotes + IG
09:29 -!- jmbuser_ [n=jmbuser(a)195.229.24.83] has quit [Remote closed the connection]
09:29 < quaid> sorry, had a Ctrl+F in there :)
09:30 < quaid> anyway
09:30 < glezos> quaid, does the DUG need updating for F8?
09:30 < quaid> dude
09:30 < quaid> it needs updating for _F7_
09:30 < quaid> this is no skin on the people involved
09:30 < quaid> this is across the whole project
09:30 < quaid> we have mainly failed to be able to maintain full guides
09:31 -!- JonRob [n=jon(a)88-111-164-189.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com] has joined #fedora-docs
09:31 < glezos> quaid, what I meant was that it's kind of a non-release-specific doc.
09:31 < glezos> quaid, agreed on that
09:31 -!- couf_ [n=bart@fedora/couf] has joined #fedora-docs
09:31 < quaid> my hope is that opening the Wiki to more contributors will help with the small one-off, how-to, and maybe we'll be able to draw from that somehow
09:31 < quaid> glezos: well, yes, but there are always changes that need to be tweaked across release
09:31 < couf_> sorry, power failed here
09:31 < glezos> quaid, right
09:31 -!- couf [n=bart@fedora/couf] has quit [Nick collision from services.]
09:32 -!- couf_ is now known as couf
09:32 < quaid> but i think as a project, the only things we've proven ourselves consistently able to deliver are:
09:32 < quaid> * release notes
09:32 < quaid> * installation guide
09:32 < quaid> * really freaking awesome tools
09:32 < quaid> and that is all a testament to the interests of the people involved
09:32 < quaid> so I'm tempted to just work with that for this release
09:33 < quaid> anyway, like i said, a good topic for the list
09:33 < quaid> just heads up to what I'm personally thinking/feeling
09:34 < quaid> so, on to more interesting stuff
09:34 < quaid> it appears we are near the end of "Summer" for the various coding projects
09:34 * couf needs to run for a while, will keep watching though
09:34 < quaid> my major concern is helping everyone finish successful
09:34 < quaid> *fully
09:35 < quaid> vpv: what do you need from the mentor side? what is the timing/schedule we are working with?
09:35 < quaid> glezos: I think I know what GSoC needs from me; how do you think things are going?
09:36 < quaid> nman64: daMaestro isn't around, but let us know if you need anything from this group for the GSoC stuff
09:36 < glezos> quaid, my goals in terms of development were reached a while ago
09:36 < vpv> quaid: I'm having some problems with DocBook, other than that, it seems to be alright. I have time at least until August 31, probably even a couple of days after that
09:36 -!- wfoster [i=wfoster@nat/redhat/x-330892ca034367aa] has joined #fedora-docs
09:37 < quaid> glezos: yeah, you make it easy for me
09:37 < glezos> quaid, deployment might take some time to make sure security is OK
09:37 < quaid> ok
09:38 * glezos notes that GSoC says that students should be judged for their code as it was on August 20
09:38 < nman64> quaid: daMaestro sent me what he had yesterday. I'll be reviewing it ASAP.
09:39 < glezos> quaid, I'll do a fresh install of transifex to make sure the install instructions are ok and let you know to check the code out.
09:40 < quaid> glezos: thanks
09:41 < quaid> we have a transifex user for Fedora? or one for testing?
09:41 * quaid wants to setup locally and commit from here
09:42 < quaid> I can also use e.g. another SVN I own as a test spot; set it up to be an upstream for a translator
09:42 < quaid> ok, that's cool then ...
09:42 < glezos> quaid, no transifex user for Fedora.
09:42 < glezos> quaid, transifex initializes 4 local repos to play with
09:42 < quaid> ok,cool
09:43 < quaid> moving on ....
09:43 * quaid waits a second or two first
09:44 < quaid> so on to election stuff
09:44 < quaid> so, the irony is ...
09:45 < quaid> no one seems to have the time to work on making an election happen
09:45 < quaid> which means we are all derelict of duty and should resign as unable to fulfill our duties as leaders
09:45 < quaid> which means an election would be needed to fill the seats
09:45 < glezos> lol
09:45 < quaid> etc. ...
09:46 < quaid> I'd bring this up on list, but I'm getting a little tire of only talking with Paul and Rahul on there
09:46 < quaid> s/tire/tired/
09:46 < glezos> elections every 6 months are probably a bit overkill
09:46 < quaid> maybe so
09:48 < glezos> quaid, do you think it might help it we asked people what do they think we are doing wrong as a project?
09:48 < quaid> hmm ... well, yes, but ...
09:48 < glezos> or, to rephrase, what we could do better? What prevents them from contributing and participating?
09:48 < quaid> will people only read it if that is the Subject:?
09:48 * couf returns
09:48 < quaid> because it looks to me like there has been such discussion on list
09:49 < quaid> glezos: could you drop a quick email with that question? might as well ask it straight out
09:49 < quaid> and maybe we are trying to do too much or with too many tools or something, I dunno
09:49 < glezos> quaid, ok, was thinking of suggesting that
09:49 < glezos> quaid, and too few active contributors
09:49 < quaid> yeah
09:49 < quaid> we have enough folks here right now to vote to postpone elections, I reckon
09:50 < quaid> couf, EvilBob - the question on the table is, should we postpone the elections until the next yearly cycle, figuring that 6 months is too often for FDP?
09:50 < quaid> we discussed this initially and weren't sure then, either
09:50 < EvilBob> quaid: +1
09:50 < couf> quaid: +1
09:50 < glezos> quaid, +1
09:50 < quaid> fwiw, we can still elect a new chair :)
09:51 < quaid> well, +1 from me since I proposed it :)
09:51 < EvilBob> I have just been swamped here again to ge the leg work done
09:51 < EvilBob> Just when I think I will have 20 minutes to get it going anything comes up
09:52 < quaid> I'd rather our energy on what matters for the release
09:52 < quaid> that after all is the Prime Imperative
09:52 < quaid> well, that was easy
09:53 < EvilBob> -1 on new chair
09:53 < quaid> I propose we take the discussion about activating contributors to the list
09:53 < quaid> EvilBob: I see the plan, keep me too busy to resign?
09:53 < couf> +1 to the plan :-)
09:53 < quaid> ... and with that discussion moving, we can either AOB or close the meeting
09:54 < EvilBob> new chair should happen after the election that should have happened last week, with that getting pushed 6 more months I think the chair has to wait also
09:54 < EvilBob> quaid: however If you need to step down none of us will hold it against you
09:55 < quaid> well, I didn't propose it yet, but I get the point that time is passing
09:55 * EvilBob motions to close the meeting
09:55 < quaid> 2nd!
09:55 < quaid> 5 ...
09:55 < quaid> 4 ...
09:55 < quaid> 3 ...
09:55 < quaid> 2 ...
09:55 < quaid> psyche!
09:55 < quaid> </meeting>
16 years, 8 months
