On 2 April 2012 04:56, Taryn Fox <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone! > > Hi Taryn
> I would like to apply for the 2012 GNOME Outreach Program for Women > internship, to help with GNOME documentation if possible. I write for a > living and have some web design experience, and would be happy to help > anywhere else that those skills are needed instead. > > I started by talking to Cosimo Cecchi about contributing to GNOME > Documents, but then when I started taking the JavaScript tutorials I > noticed a lot of things that I felt could be improved. I have filed a bug > report and included a patch, as the people on #docs suggested and helped > with, and you can see it at > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=673338 > Thank-you for your interest in the Developer Tutorials. They are currently a work in progress. Susanna Huhtanen and myself have been slowly chipping away at them, and help is very welcome. I had a look at your patch and accepted the fixes. Your contribution has been committed to the master branch of gnome-devel-docs. > > For a project idea, I would like to learn how to write GNOME applications > and create guides that explain what I've learned. In essence, I would like > to take the current material at > http://developer.gnome.org/gnome-devel-demos/unstable/ and clean it up, > add more tutorials, and give new developers a clear path from having only > basic knowledge of a programming language to being able to write complete > applications (or even help out with GNOME development). I could do this for > different languages if needed. I am especially interested in JavaScript, > Vala, and Python, in roughly that order. > Your idea is very welcome. It will need some collaboration with myself, Susannah (cc'd in this e-mail) and any other interns that may be interested in working on the tutorials. > > I am open to other suggestions for things that need to be done, or > projects that need attention. > > I would like to share our ideas with you, but it may be easier to do so on irc. My nick is 'mimico', and I can be found on #docs, as well as #gnome-women and #gnome-love. (I am in timezone UTC-5, so although am almost always on the channel, may not always respond right away.) > Thank you, > > Taryn > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-doc-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list > > -- Tiffany Antopolski
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