Hi, Glyn Normington already introduced me.
Let me add some remarks. My Name is Thomas Herbstreuth, I'm 41 years old, married, one son, live in Stuttgart-Germany and besides writing tech docs without being paid, i write tech docs i'm paid for, teach courses (mainly Perl, CGI and for another customer VB, VBA) and play the saxophone (no sane person would pay me for _that_). I have a long experience with SGML (but from the documentation side - in conjunction with FrameMaker), so XML is a familiar concept that has some new aspects in the way it's used as a data format. I started to work with Java about a year ago - so don't look to close at the code i'm producing. But i don't think, thats an obstacle. Anyway, in a starter-guide the focus should be somewhere else. The point in a starter guide is to manage software installation and configuration, to get a client running, a service running and to manage the deployment. And that's what i would like to write and contribute. And i have fresh memory of all the pitfalls i stumbled into. A first outline can be found at http://212.9.161.117/startAxisSnapshot/doc/startAxis.htm As you will be seeing, there is not to much flesh on these bones. It's the outline and a lot of placeholders. To fill the gaps, i need some support from the tech side, since i have an overall picture of the concepts but need people i can ask specific questions. I'm not too familiar with teamwork via CVS and team members in different locations, so please if you think you can cover a certain area of expertise, contact me at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and tell me which sort of question i can ask you. I would like to have a list afterwords - Deploy dies, ask A, B, C - HTTP Header has wrong syntax, ask B, C, F etc. I'm really curious what kind of feedback i will get on this post... Bye, Thomas
