Self-Introduction

[Christopher Antila]

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Hi Scott:

Welcome to the Docs Project!

Most of my previous email applies here too:
I'm not sure whether you discovered our IRC channel yet (#fedora-docs on 
freenode); if you have, good work! I suggest you attend weekly meetings, about 
which you can find more information here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Docs_Project_meetings

If you can attend, meetings are an easy to find smaller tasks that will help 
you get an idea of how things work around here.

Another common way for new contributors to join in is with the Release Notes.
Because these are highly sectionalized, you can work on the parts that
interest you the most. Each section is called a "beat," and you can find out
more from here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Documentation_beats

I'm not sure you could write documentation specific for former bus drivers, but 
if you're seriously interested in free software graphics applications, we have 
basically no existing documentation for those in Fedora.

In 2010, I wrote the "Musicians' Guide," about music and audio software, and I 
imagine the Fedora Design Team (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design) would 
support your efforts to write a similar document for graphics software. As you 
can imagine, this would be a very large project, but you could slowly build 
the guide over several releases. In fact, you could probably even copy 
existing documentation from other sources, then customize it to your 
preferences and to Fedora's requirements (mostly "how to install").

Maybe you'd be more comfortable starting with something smaller, and that's 
okay too. Either way, welcome to Docs!


Christopher

On 9 February 2013 08:47:11 Scott Bicknell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Let me tell you about myself.  I am the father of two children living in
> Washington State in the USA and a former bus driver who has returned to
> college to pursue a liberal arts degree.  My computer experience is mostly
> non-professional.
> 
> I wrote a user tutorial for the GIMP Animation Package (GAP) a few years ago
> and published it at gimptalk.com at the request of one of their moderators.
> It remains as a primary tutorial on that site.  My other writing experience
> is confined to blog postings and college essays.
> 
> In mid-March I plan to take a break from school and to devote my free time
> to contributing to this project.
> 
> My computer skills include installing multiple operating systems in
> dual-boot configurations and solving configuration problems.  I am not a
> computer professional; I am a hobbyist with extensive DOS, OS/2, and
> Windows experience and twelve years of desktop Linux experience.
> 
> Some of my previous work may apply to this project.  In two jobs I designed
> and maintained multiple web sites.  For one of them I wrote a suite of bash
> shell scripts that automated content updates on several web sites.
> 
> Fedora is my primary desktop operating system.  I have used it continuously
> for more than two years.  Previously I used K/X/Ubuntu, SuSE, Slackware,
> Mandrake, and Red Hat Linux beginning in 2001.  From my first day with
> Linux, it has been my primary desktop OS.
> 
> My long experience with desktop Linux installations while maintaining a non-
> professional user's perspective combined with my writing skills may help
> make Fedora's documentation more accessible to less-technically-inclined
> users.
> 
> 
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