6:25 p.m.
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:
pub 4096R/24E57F48 2016-04-24
Key fingerprint = 31BD B8C4 8FFF FAF5 303F C680 6BF1 A414 24E5 7F48
uid Drew Meigs <dmeigs[at]openmailbox.org>
sub 4096R/F652FFD6 2016-04-24
2:51 a.m.
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:
pub 4096R/24E57F48 2016-04-24
Key fingerprint = 31BD B8C4 8FFF FAF5 303F C680 6BF1 A414 24E5 7F48
uid Drew Meigs <dmeigs[at]openmailbox.org>
sub 4096R/F652FFD6 2016-04-24
--
docs mailing list
docs(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
To unsubscribe:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/docs@lists.fedoraproject.org
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/
--
Stephen Wadeley
Content Author | Red Hat, Inc.
Purkynova 99 | Brno, Czech Republic
Time zone: CEST
4:11 a.m.
On 04/28/2016 03:51 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:
>
> pub 4096R/24E57F48 2016-04-24
> Key fingerprint = 31BD B8C4 8FFF FAF5 303F C680 6BF1 A414 24E5
> 7F48
> uid Drew Meigs <dmeigs[at]openmailbox.org>
> sub 4096R/F652FFD6 2016-04-24
> --
> docs mailing list
> docs(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> To unsubscribe:
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/docs@lists.fedoraproject.org
>
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/
Drew,
Welcome to the team. Nice to see yet another 'I love to teach things to
lay folk' contributor joining the ranks. Along with what Stephen
said, There are several guides needing proofread / brought up to date
that you and I could work on to get your 'teeth in' as the saying goes.
Feel free to reach out to anyone on the team via email, the IRC
channel or any other means that some of us allow ourselves to be
reached via outside those.
--- Warm Regards ---
Corey Sheldon
P: +1 (310) 909 7672
PGP: B54B7228 (keybase) | 5A88E539 (personal) | D2264944 (fedora)
https://gist.github.com/linux-modder/ac5dc6fa211315c633c9
Disclaimer: This document, including attachments, is intended for the
person(s) named within and may contain confidential and/or legally
privileged information, and may occasionally include Intellectual
Property / Embargoed Content. it is request that all emails regardless
of topic or content are regarded in this manner. Unauthorized
disclosure, copying / distribution of this information may be unlawful
and is prohibited, including unsolicited Cc/Bcc. If you are not the
intended recipient, please disregard and destroy this message and if the
recipient is known to you please inform them, and a return email
indicating a improper recipient IS requested so that I may remove you
from any lists, conversations such error may have created / allowed. Use
of OpenGPG keys are highly encouraged my keys can be found @
hkp://keys.gnupg.net & hkp://keys.fedoraproject.org
6:56 a.m.
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:
>
> pub 4096R/24E57F48 2016-04-24
> Key fingerprint = 31BD B8C4 8FFF FAF5 303F C680 6BF1 A414
> 24E5 7F48
> uid Drew Meigs <dmeigs[at]openmailbox.org>
> sub 4096R/F652FFD6 2016-04-24
> --
> docs mailing list
> docs(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> To unsubscribe:
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/docs@lists.fedoraproject.org
>
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/
2:17 p.m.
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:
>>
>> pub 4096R/24E57F48 2016-04-24
>> Key fingerprint = 31BD B8C4 8FFF FAF5 303F C680 6BF1 A414
>> 24E5 7F48
>> uid Drew Meigs <dmeigs[at]openmailbox.org>
>> sub 4096R/F652FFD6 2016-04-24
>> --
>> docs mailing list
>> docs(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>> To unsubscribe:
>> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/docs@lists.fedoraproject.org
>>
> 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
2909
days inactive
2914
days old
4 comments
3 participants
participants (3)
-
Corey Sheldon -
Drew Meigs -
Stephen Wadeley