Nils,
welcome to the Fedora Community. I noticed, nobody of the docs core member answered your
email. It’s a pity. As far as I can overlook, the docs group is pretty exhausted and
struggling to get the bare minimum done.
I’m specifically working on the Fedora Server Edition documentation. I’m its initiator and
the main contributor. Your focus is obviously on the workstation. But maybe server would
still be an entry point. We are in the process of expanding the documentation (see
). There are many opportunities for
contributions, including those who are not skilled english writers.
We can gladly talk about the use of version control systems for documentation and your
thesis. Feel free to write me directly (gerne auch in Deutsch). However, I am one of those
who are not completely happy with this solution. Whereby I also see some advantages.
I hope we will find ways and possibility of cooperation.
Best
Peter
Am 17.08.2021 um 17:45 schrieb Nils Birkenstock
<creech(a)mailbox.org>:
Hello everyone,
I'm a 38 year old technical writer from Germany. In my day job I'm
writing instruction manuals for machines and I don't have much
experience with describing software, but I think there will be at least
some similarities :)
I tested Fedora back in my school days with Fedora Core 1 and 2 (still
have the CDs), then I had a long Windows-only phase, which ended when I
first heard about Gnome 3. So I installed Fedora next to Windows with
version 15 and I think I haven't skipped a release since then. Since
one or two years Fedora is my primary OS and Windows is for gaming and
some stuff my wife wants to use. Right now Fedora powers my desktop
system, my ~14 year old laptop and my tablet (Surface Pro 4), which is
a pretty big variety of devices if you ask me...
Parallel to my job I'm working on my master thesis about the advantages
and possibilities when using version control software in documentation
projects... and yes, I'm writing a chapter about how
docs.fedoraproject.org works as a positive example. If someone wants to
talk about it, I'm always glad to have interview partners ;)
A reason to write about the Fedora docs is because I want to contribute
somewhat in the future, after the thesis. I think I am a somewhat
typical linux user who knows enough about computers to not destroy
everything, but has to do some reading first if asked to install
software which isn't in the repos or available as flatpak. So I hope I
can be useful to write tutorials for the average user because I'm one
of them.
What I'm not used to is writing in English, so if you don't understand
something in future communication, maybe that's because I messed
something up. I'll try my best.
I uploaded my GPG key to
pgp.mit.edu and this mail should be signed
too, so if someone prefers encrypted communication, you should have
everything you need.
I'm looking forward to work with you
Nils Birkenstock
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