Interested in volunteering

[fprimex]

Hello,

I'm interested in writing some documentation for Fedora.  I'm not a 
professional technical writer, but I have written some employee manuals 
for the technical support at my university.  I have also spent a 
considerable amount of time helping Linux users on IRC, which has lead 
me to write some guides in the past.

At the present, there isn't  a particular topic I would like to cover.  
I would simply like to help the project in some way.  My time is too 
limited while I'm in graduate school to undertake any serious coding or 
bug fixing, but I want to contribute to the project and do what is 
needed.

I've not used many of the tools listed on the project page, as most of 
my writing is done in LaTeX for my work.  I can, however, learn quickly 
and am willing to do so.

Please reply directly to me or include my address as a Cc, as I haven't 
subscribed to the fedora-docs-list yet.

Thanks!

Brent W.

[Tammy Fox]

Hi Brent,

We would love for you to participate in the docs project. Most
people's time is limited, especially those who are writing on a
volunteer basis. That is one of the reasons I chose tutorials as the
format. The term implies small or medium documents on specific
topics. 

I tell everyone to draw on their experiences and knowledge. It is
usually easier to write about a topic you are familiar. Are there any
tasks that you recently figured out that you would like to share in a
tutorial?

Tammy

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 06:32:23PM -0500, fprimex wrote:
>  Hello,
>  
>  I'm interested in writing some documentation for Fedora.  I'm not a 
>  professional technical writer, but I have written some employee manuals 
>  for the technical support at my university.  I have also spent a 
>  considerable amount of time helping Linux users on IRC, which has lead 
>  me to write some guides in the past.
>  
>  At the present, there isn't  a particular topic I would like to cover.  
>  I would simply like to help the project in some way.  My time is too 
>  limited while I'm in graduate school to undertake any serious coding or 
>  bug fixing, but I want to contribute to the project and do what is 
>  needed.
>  
>  I've not used many of the tools listed on the project page, as most of 
>  my writing is done in LaTeX for my work.  I can, however, learn quickly 
>  and am willing to do so.
>  
>  Please reply directly to me or include my address as a Cc, as I haven't 
>  subscribed to the fedora-docs-list yet.
>  
>  Thanks!
>  
>  Brent W.
>  
>  
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[Gary Travis Roberts]

I would be interested in volunteering to write some documentation.  I could
do a tutorial on setting up a firewall and also on setting up networking
both with a network card and through an ISP.

I am proficient at emacs and have been using Redhat since the 0.9x series
kernels.  I work as a network admin (for over 8 years) over many different
styles of Unix.  Redhat, though, is by far most used in-house.

Let me know where I can get templates and I will starting running.

  -Gary Roberts

[Karsten Wade]

On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 10:09, Gary Travis Roberts wrote:
>  I would be interested in volunteering to write some documentation.  I
> could
>  do a tutorial on setting up a firewall and also on setting up networking
>  both with a network card and through an ISP.
>  
>  I am proficient at emacs and have been using Redhat since the 0.9x series
>  kernels.  I work as a network admin (for over 8 years) over many different
>  styles of Unix.  Redhat, though, is by far most used in-house.
>  
>  Let me know where I can get templates and I will starting running. 
Hi Gary, welcome.

http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/ has details about getting the
Doc Guide via anonymous CVS.  The checkout includes a tutorial template,
example-tutorial/.  It's all very pretty.

There are a few bugs with the documentation as it stands (e.g.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=104983).

hth - Karsten
>  
>    -Gary Roberts
>  
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