Hello, all. We've had a few people posting to the list recently asking how they can help. Here's a list of some of the ways you can give us a hand:
TRANSLATORS We still need help finishing the translations for the first edition of Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04. If you'd like to help translate, you can find some instructions at http://ubuntu-manual.org/getinvolved/translators. Also, we're still in need of editors for many of the translations. Translation editors are in charge of ensuring the translations are correct, the formatting of the book looks good, and has the final say in when the translated manual is released. If you're interested in being a translation editor, please email me directly with your full name, email address, Launchpad ID, and language. We currently only have translation editors for Asturian, Bengali, German, Greek, English (UK), and Galician. AUTHORS AND EDITORS We're planning on releasing a second edition of Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04 to correct any bugs and fill in any gaps left in the first edition. To help with this, read through the first edition (which you can download from http://ubuntu-manual.org/) and file bug reports when you see any errors in spelling, grammar, formatting, wrong information, missing information, etc. You can file bug reports through Launchpad at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-manual. DEVELOPERS We have a big list of new features planned for the next release of Quickshot, our multilingual screenshot-capturing program. Quickshot is written in Python and has both a GNOME frontend and a web-based backend. If you're interested in helping out with Quickshot development, please contact the Quickshot developers. You can find the contact information at http://launchpad.net/quickshot. We also have some pretty big plans for the Maverick release. In addition to our PDFs and printed books, we'd like to release an online version of our manual. But we're not stopping there! We're working with the Ubuntu docs team and the Ubuntu learning team to pool our content into a single website. We have a lot of work ahead on this project including the design of the site (including graphic design, UI design, and web design) and the implementation (selecting a source document format; converting between different markup formats such as Docbook, Mallard, and LaTeX; writing a GUI editor for writing text in the chosen format, and so much more). If you're interested in helping out with this project, you can read the sketch of our idea and view some mockups at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-support-and-learning-center and post an email to the Ubuntu docs mailing list at https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-doc. OTHER WAYS TO HELP If you'd like to help, but don't want to work on any of the above, send us an email or come talk to us in the IRC channel (we're in #ubuntu-manual on Freenode) -- we'll come up with something you can do that fits your talents. As always, if you have any questions, comments, suggestions, criticisms, etc., feel free to contact us! Thanks! --Kevin Godby _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
