On Saturday February 9, 2013 1:02 pm Christopher Antila wrote:
Welcome to the Docs Project!
Most of my previous email applies here too:
I'm not sure whether you discovered our IRC channel yet (#fedora-docs on
freenode); if you have, good work! I suggest you attend weekly meetings,
about which you can find more information here:
I did find the IRC channel and added it to XChat's freenode startup list along
with the #fedora-meeting channel.
Another common way for new contributors to join in is with the
Release
Notes. Because these are highly sectionalized, you can work on the parts
that interest you the most. Each section is called a "beat," and you can
find out more from here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Documentation_beats
Thanks for the pointer. I will definitely look there for good starting points.
I'm not sure you could write documentation specific for former
bus drivers,
but if you're seriously interested in free software graphics applications,
we have basically no existing documentation for those in Fedora.
As you might imagine, bus drivers I have talked to about Linux have always
scratched their heads and asked why I use it, so perhaps pursuing graphics
application documentation might be better. I'll have to investigate further.
In 2010, I wrote the "Musicians' Guide," about music
and audio software, and
I imagine the Fedora Design Team (
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design)
would support your efforts to write a similar document for graphics
software. As you can imagine, this would be a very large project, but you
could slowly build the guide over several releases. In fact, you could
probably even copy existing documentation from other sources, then
customize it to your preferences and to Fedora's requirements (mostly "how
to install").
That might be a valuable addition to the documentation. I'll have a look at
similar guides to get an idea of the scope of such a project.
Scott Bicknell
:wq