Joining the documentation project as an official member

[Pete Travis]

On 06/24/2013 07:41 PM, Leslie S Satenstein wrote:
>
> You asked for:
>
>   * Name
>   * Time Zone / Country
>   * Basic skills and experiences
>   * Why you're joining
>   * What you're looking to do (be specific)
>   * How much time you can contribute (usually hours per week)
>
>  
>
>
> Here are the coordinates
> Mr Leslie Satenstein
>
>   * GMT-5, Canada
>   * 50 years in IT, 25 in system modeling, capacity planning, and
>     operations in line and management positions.
>   * 10+ years of writing, user, operations, marketing documentation.
>   * Technical writer, proofreader, entrepreneur. Past professor at
>     junior college.  
>   * 35 years as author of code in C, Assembler, Pascal derivative in
>     the areas of mathematical algorithms (statistics, queuing models,
>     capacity planning, cyberfraud prevention)
>   * 20 years of ERP systems implementations encorporating realtime
>     processing,bar-coding, RFID and more in a HPUX, Solaris, AIX,
>     IBM-MVS, DEC, Unix (various)environments.
>   * Database familiarity with Db2, Oracle, Postgres, et al.
>   * Hardware design for telemetering systems. Linux for the past 7
>     years.    
>
> Many of the above tasks were performed concurrently. (example,
> teaching, writing,analyzing)
> I am fluent in English and French. With conversational and reading
> Spanish.
>
> I mentioned that I had 8 hours per week of availability.
> I am joining to do some active proof reading, and eventually writing,
> so that a non-English reader with basic English course could follow
> the English text by "direct read" or by using a translate program.
>
> I am a team player.
>
> I also believe in the rule "divide and conquer"; Break large writing
> projects into smaller deliverables.
>
> I also believe in meeting deadlines.  
>
>
>
> Regards
> *
>  Leslie
> *
> *Mr. Leslie Satenstein
> *An experienced Information Technology specialist.
> Yesterday was a good day, today is a better day,
> and tomorrow will be even better.
> lsatenstein at yahoo.com <mailto:lsatenstein at yahoo.com>
> alternative: leslie.satenstein at gmail.com
> *SENT FROM MY OPEN SOURCE LINUX SYSTEM.*
>
>
>

Hi Leslie,

Have you created an FAS account? Really, the only 'formal' distinction -
besides active participation - is getting sponsored for membership in
the docs FAS group. You and I have talked about a lot of the docs
procedural stuff, so I won't hash over it again, but feel free to ask if
you have questions.

As you've said you primarily want to contribute reviews, I think Docs
QA[1] might be a good fit for you. QA contacts review guides to identify
outdated content or undocumented changes and communicate them to the
guide owners.  It would be best to review They also perform QA on
bugs[2]. The docs-qa mailing list[3] is the default QA contact for all
of our guides, and would ideally be used for docs QA related discussion.

I do feel obligated to remind you, though: we don't do machine
translation. The primary function of docs QA, as stated in the
guidelines linked below, is to identify technical shortcomings
(deprecated information, new features, etc)  and blatant writing errors
(spelling, broken links, etc).  Many of our writers are also
multilingual, but there aren't that many of us! If the information is
current and functionally correct, rewriting copy that has already been
written and translated just isn't a good use of our time.

Anyway, as always, do reach out to the group if we can help you.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_QA
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_QA_Procedure
[3] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs-qa


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-- Pete Travis
 - Fedora Docs Project Leader
 - 'randomuser' on freenode
 - immanetize at fedoraproject.org

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