Hello Edith,

Welcome aboard! As you probably know, all our documentation is located here:

  http://docs.fedoraproject.org/

You can also find a more or less complete list of books we maintain on this page:

  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project_guides_table

All our books are written in DocBook 4.5 XML language. I can see that you already have some experience with XML, which should make it easier for you to learn this language. I have this book in my bookmarks:

  http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/docbook.html

This book is really great and very helpful when you need to find documentation for a particular XML element, but it can also be unnecessarily scary: DocBook has a lot of elements, but in real life, you don't need to know them all by heart. Instead of reading this book from cover to cover, you might want to take a look at the source code of some of our books.

Since you mentioned information security, you can type the following at a shell prompt to get access to the latest development version of the Security Guide (make sure you have the git package installed):

  git clone http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/securityguide.git

This creates a directory named securityguide in your current working directory; the XML sources are located in the securityguide/en-US/ directory. To build the HTML version of this book, make sure that you have the publican and publican-fedora packages installed and run the following command from the "securityguide" directory:

  publican build --langs en-US --formats html-single

Then open the tmp/en-US/html-single/index.html in your favorite web browser. Of course, Publican can do much more:


http://jfearn.fedorapeople.org/en-US/Publican/3.2/html/Users_Guide/index.html

And if you don't feel like reading the whole thing, you can take a look at my slides from the Developer Conference in Brno:

  http://www.blackened.cz/tmp/devconf2013.pdf

Of course, if you have any questions or if you just want to say hello, you can find us all on FreeNode, channel #fedora-docs.

Cheers,
Jaromir

On 10/21/2013 07:57 PM, Edith Rivero Tupac wrote:

Name: Edith Rivero --- Time Zone: UTC-5 --- Country: Peru

Hello to everyone on this project. First of all, I hope you can
understand my English (I have a personal promise of training it every day).

My name is Edith Rivero, i am a peruvian woman who is engaged into Open
Source since 2010 but just like an user, willing someday participating
in a real way. Sincerely it was really great for me that the past FUDCON
took place on my city (Cusco). Participating as a helper in the
conference encouraged me to look for a project to contribute with. I
choosed Documentation Project because through documents i could be
better involved into Fedora and maybe later join to another project :)

What other projects or writing have you worked on in the past?
This would be my first time participating on writing, but during my
university times I have participated using Latex tool to transcrive some
papers. Some other projects I worked on, were those related to
information security. This is an interesting field for me, so if I could
choose to start any documentation I would like to start in this field.
But of course, I will work willingly in any documentation required to be
done.

What level and type of computer skills do you have?
I hope to measure it well. I did most of my programming activities on
Java, so i would say i have an intermediate level. Also, I got involved
to Php, XML (both intermediae level), Python (basic level) and databases
MySQL, PosgreSQL (both intermediate level) and Oracle (basic level).
During my last job I also used tools of Lotus Notes.
What other skills do you have that might be applicable?
Well, I have soft-called skills analytical skills, technical skills in
programming and training skills (my actual job is teaching in an IT
technical school on the University). Also I can understand things easyly
and I like to investigate.

What makes you an excellent match for the project?
My perseverance and my dedication are some of my qualities I am going to
maintain through this project. Maybe I will have to confront with some
tools or kind of work that i never used to, but i like challenging
things and I will make my best effort to solve this in the way it is
expected.

How much time you can contribute (usually hours per week)?
I measured my time, and i decided to contribute 6 hours a week to begin.

GPG KEYID and fingerprint:

[root@localhost erivero]# gpg --fingerprint 90CCC38A
pub   2048R/90CCC38A 2013-10-21 [expires: 2015-10-21]
Key fingerprint = 2698 9C33 AB4A 3881 163B  40F6 8240 4D8B 90CC C38A

uid                  Edith Pamela Rivero Tupac <edith.tupac@gmail.com  <mailto:edith.tupac@gmail.com>>

sub   2048R/85A508CF 2013-10-21 [expires: 2015-10-21]

Sincerely it will be a pleasure to contribute this Fedora's project.
Thank you for taking time to read this email. It will be really great if
I got answers of you.

Best regards,

Edith Rivero

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