We are looking for interested people who are willing to write docs in person for one week. You don't have to be an existing docs team member to participate. It helps if you're familiar with AsciiDoc, but if you're not, it's easy to learn.
You'll hang out with other people interested in making Fedora documentation the best in the world. Fun will be had, but mostly it will be the sort of fun which involves sitting in a small room intensely focused on writing and editing. If that's *your* idea of a good time, this will be a good experience for you.
You can find details about the FAD, including the goals here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Documentation_2018
The Fedora Council has approved funding and we will make selections based on the ability to the person asking and within our approved travel budget. https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/tickets/issue/174
Interested? Open a Pagure ticket in the Fedora Docs tracker here: https://pagure.io/fedora-docs
Please include:
- Your Name/FAS - Why you want to come and what your background in writing (of any kind) is. - Any specific areas of interest - Location you will travel from
We will start picking people ASAP.
Thanks,
bex & Matthew
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 07:24:46PM +0100, Brian Exelbierd wrote:
We are looking for interested people who are willing to write docs in person for one week. You don't have to be an existing docs team member to participate. It helps if you're familiar with AsciiDoc, but if you're not, it's easy to learn.
You'll hang out with other people interested in making Fedora documentation the best in the world. Fun will be had, but mostly it will be the sort of fun which involves sitting in a small room intensely focused on writing and editing. If that's *your* idea of a good time, this will be a good experience for you.
You can find details about the FAD, including the goals here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Documentation_2018
The Fedora Council has approved funding and we will make selections based on the ability to the person asking and within our approved travel budget. https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/tickets/issue/174
Interested? Open a Pagure ticket in the Fedora Docs tracker here: https://pagure.io/fedora-docs
Please include:
- Your Name/FAS
- Why you want to come and what your background in writing (of any kind) is.
- Any specific areas of interest
- Location you will travel from
We will start picking people ASAP.
I daresay this would be *very* well suited for Magazine writers (old or new) who have expert proficiency in English. I encourage contributors to take a look and apply if you fit the bill.
On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 01:10:33PM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
I daresay this would be *very* well suited for Magazine writers (old or new) who have expert proficiency in English. I encourage contributors to take a look and apply if you fit the bill.
Seconded. Roughly, I'd say we're looking for:
* enthusiasm * writing ability * subject-matter expertise or ability to pick it up fast * comfort with asciidoc or similar markup and git-based workflows
in approximately that order.
The target is to get the "Quick Docs" into great shape — the initial ones at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/quick-docs/en-US/index.html plus whatever else we can add. If you're familiar with these topics, that's awesome, but even if you're not you can help edit and format stuff someone else writes.
And I'll be happy to help people get up to speed with the tools — especially if those people in turn can help teach others.
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