Volunteer / Would like to participate

[Marc Bruggeman]

Karsten,
My apologies for the somewhat late reply. 
I have been reading up on the materials and this list, as well as some
others related to the Fedora project.  

I guess my best option for the moment is going through the phase of
learning to use all these different tools, and start writing. When I get
something finished, I will submit it here in the list.

And to answer the question about what I could write about : I have been
so far 'studying and experimenting' with IP networking, DHCP, DNS, NIS,
NFS, SAMBA, NTP... I want to know more about configuring and using
encryption and related tools. I am also trying to learn a bit more about
(shell script) programming in a Linux environment (apart from learning
how to use the documentation tools and programs).

I will keep an eye on this list and get back as soon as I have something
to present.
Regards,
Marc

Marc On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 22:07, Karsten Wade wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 01:34, Marc Bruggeman wrote:
> > To the Fedora Documentation Project maintainer (Tammy Fox),
> > 
> > I have been using and experimenting with Linux over the past 5 years.
> > Mostly Red Hat distributions (from 6.0 onwards I have used them all,
> > exept 8.0) but also tried out Debian, Mandrake and Slackware on several
> > occasions.  As I am a telecomm professional my interest was more in how
> > to set up the different protocols and configure the system(s) and try to
> > figure out why things were/are done in such or such a way.
> > In my professional career I have also written lots of technical
> > documents and presentations and project reports in several languages
> > (Dutch, English, French).
> > Lately, I feel I would like to contribute in a way to the whole Open
> > Software movement and because I feel most comfortable using the redhat
> > distributions and now Fedora, I would like to volunteer to work on the
> > documentation project. 
> > 
> > I am on Fedora Core 2 right now, have downloaded the documentation files
> > via CVS and am reading trough the guidelines and Emacs tutorials. I must
> > admit that so far, I have not yet really used Emacs and the other
> > mentioned tools, but hey, that will give me a new challenge and a reason
> > to learn something new. 
> > 
> > Please let me know if I can be of any help to this project, or if you
> > would need more specific info, do not hesitate to contact me !
> 
> Speaking just as a project member, I would say, Yes!, we need more
> help.  Right now we need:
> 
> * Writers of new documents, especially those who can understand the
> tools
> * Helpers, who can assist non-DocBook users in getting documents in the
> proper format
> 
> After we have some more submissions, we will need editors, and one day,
> translators.
> 
> As for what can you write about?  The question comes back to you, what
> are you interested in?  Tell us, we'd like to talk about it.  When you
> have something, submit it to the list.  Look for collaborators.  See if
> your idea is being worked on in another way.
> 
> Welcome!
> 
> - Karsten
> 
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