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Hi Jonquil:
Welcome to the Docs Project! There are lots of things to do, especially for an
experienced writer/editor.
It seems like the usual "place to start" is either by proofreading existing
documents or by helping to write the Release Notes. I'm pretty sure the
Release Notes for Fedora 16 are already (mostly?) finished, so that leaves you
with proofreading. Until the Fedora 17 cycle.
The place to go for this is the Draft Documentation part of the website, which
is what will turn into the Fedora 16 versions of the Guides. It looks to me
like the User Guide is available, and that's probably a place where you can
make a big impact (see below for link).
Draft Fedora 16 User Guide:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-
US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/16.0/html/User_Guide/index.html
The Deployment Guide is my personal favourite from a useful-content-to-me
perspective, but it's updated almost daily by the author, so I don't know if
it's at a stage where you want to be proof-reading yet.
If you're looking for something in desperate need of proof-reading but with a
smaller target audience, you might start with the Musicians' Guide. Most of it
is literally a first draft. I could do a much better job if I had the time, but
I'm a graduate student, so I just don't.
Of course you can choose to do anything you want, like start your own Guide,
or do "wiki-farming" (aka updating the Fedora Project wiki... also sorely
needed!)
Oh... last thing is where to submit contributions. At first, I'd rewrite a
chapter/section/sentence/whatever, then submit it as a bug, to the Bugzilla
component corresponding to the document. Eventually you can move into
modifying the documents directly, but it's a lot to learn all at once.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com
Any questions, just ask, or join us on IRC (freenode) #fedora-docs
Christopher.
On 16 October 2011 08:00:10 docs-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 14:02:31 -0400
> From: Jonquil McDaniel <jonquil(a)love.com>
> Subject: new member introduction
> To: docs(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
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> Hello all!
>
> My name is Jonquil McDaniel and I'm in the EST time zone. My country of
> residence is the United States. I have a lot of writing experience under
> my belt and I currently am editor of a local online magazine. I'm
> joining this group because I want to contribute to Fedora in some way
> and seeing as I'm not a programmer I thought I might try my hand at
> documentation since I've had a class on technical writing. I'm not
> really sure yet of what specifically I want to do but I do know I want
> to write, LOL. I can contribute at least 5 hours a week to the project.
>
> * Time Zone / Country
> * Basic skills and experiences
> * Why you're joining
> * What you're looking to do (be specific)
> * How much time you can contribute (usually hours per week)
>
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