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<https://fed... 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<http://www.docbook.o... 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<http://git.fedorah... 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<http://jfearn.fedorapeople.org/en-US/Publican/3... 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<http://www.blackened.cz/... 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(a)gmail.com <mailto: > edith.tupac(a)gmail.com&gt;**&gt; > > 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 > -- Jaromir Hradilek Supervisor, Content Services Red Hat Czech, s. r. o. 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