--- Steve Willoughby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm available with quite a bit of free time to work > on docs, wiki's, etc. > Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.
Hi Steve! There's plenty to do on documentation, so any help you can give us would be very welcome. We've just recently been discussing what we can do to encourage new volunteers, and also to retain them (chaining them up in a dungeon was a complete failure, sadly ;) So you can help us *doubly* by telling us about any barriers you encounter with getting started working on the docs team, be they technical, social, or anything else. We have some page on the gnome wiki about getting started, but they themselves need work as they somewhat spiralled out of control some time ago: http://live.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/Contributing is out of date in parts http://live.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/Join suggests a list of herculean tasks and reading material to go through before you even get started. That being the case, I'm going to try a quick quiz: * are there any particular gnome applications you like, whose manuals you'd like to work on? The docs team is quite thin on the ground, so the chances are either nobody is working on it, or whoever is will gladly accept help. * would you rather find things here and there to fix? * alternatively, would you prefer it if I found some simple tasks for you to have a go at? If the latter... * do you know DocBook at all? * if not, are you comfortable working with markup such as HTML or XML? * how about using cvs and making patches? (If the answer to any of these is no, you can still submit bugs along the lines of "change THIS text to THAT in section X") Welcome to the team! (The dungeon entrance is the second on the left, by the way.) Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
