On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 01:10:22PM +1000, ryan lerch wrote:
Full Name:
Ryan John Lerch
Location:
Brisbane, Australia (UTC+10)
Personal Goals for Fedora Docs:
My motivation for joining the fedora docs team is to learn more about
fedora, tech writing and documentation toolchaining while being able to give
something back to the community. However, I am a little unsure how I would
like to (or can) contribute to the fedora-docs project. The first area that
jumps out at me is the Desktop User Guide (?Fedora User Guide?)
Hi Ryan! We're overjoyed you could join us. The User Guide is a
great place to start working. I think there are some areas that still
need wordsmithing and checking. We do have a Style Guide that we use
for keeping a consistent voice:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/StyleGuide
So if you wanted to look through that, you could try to match the
voice of some of the un-edited chapters/pages with the ones that are
already done. There is a Fedora 8 branch and a Fedora 9 branch so you
could either work on the known quantity (F8) or the next-generation
version.
Historical qualifications:
Other projects that I help out on are Inkscape (
http://inkscape.org/) and
The openclipart library (
http://openclipart.org/) Over at Inkscape, I help
out with writing docs and tutorials, bug triaging and responding to the
question tracker. I finished my Bachelor of Information Technology majoring
in Software Engineering and Multimedia in 2003. I'm a fairly new fedora user
(< 12 months) so I hope i can provide an insight for other new users after
making the switch to a free and open source operating system.
Ooo, an art guy! Hopefully you've already found the Artwork Project,
too, then. I know your Brisbane location makes it harder to hook up
with USA folks dueo the timezone difference. But if you're boggled by
where to start, drop by IRC Freenode (
irc.freenode.net) at channel
#fedora-docs and we'll be happy to help get you started.
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